How is the effort to build communal shelters to help Haitians cope with the current hurricane season?
We’ve made some progress in building communal shelters, or rebuilding them in the case of Leogane so that if a storm comes up this season between now and the end of the year, the people in tents and tarps can go some place and not be hurt. I want to speed that up. What are your main priorities at the moment? My big priorities are speeding up the housing, doing the communal shelters and getting at least a schedule of when the donors are going to give their money. Only 10 percent of the more than $5 billion pledged at the donors’ conference has been disbursed. Where is the money? I can understand why in this budget climate people want to hold onto their money until the end. We are looking at things like having the commission go ahead and approve projects and go raise the money for them. To be fair, there has been some rather spirited discussions with the World Bank about what their role is, and what the costs are going to be for small projects, which have been both sources of friction an
