U.S. government marks conclusion of neighborhood rehabilitation project in Port-au-Prince

In a ceremony yesterday, the U.S. government, along with partners CHF International and Project Concern International (PCI), and a representative from the Haitian government, marked the conclusion of the Katye project. The project comprehensively rehabilitated the neighborhood of Ravine Pintade in Port-au-Prince, which was heavily damaged by the January 2010 earthquake. Through an $8.5 million grant from the U.S. Agency for International Development's Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (USAID/OFDA), the residents of Ravine Pintade worked with CHF, PCI, and others to clear rubble, repair houses, construct transitional shelters, stabilize slopes, rehabilitate sanitation and drainage infrastructure and footpaths, and redesign public spaces for better safety, access, and disaster risk mitigation.