US To Coordinate Aid Programs With Haiti

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Reuters
12 Apr 2004 21:47:07 GMT

WASHINGTON, April 12 (Reuters) - Dealing directly with Haiti on aid issues for the first time since 2000, the United States and other international donors meet later this month to discuss how to ease poverty in the troubled Caribbean nation, officials said on Monday.
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"There wasn't enough coordination with Haitian NGOs (nongovernmental organizations), with the Haitian government... and with the (Haitian) diaspora. We want to coordinate with these ... stakeholders," he told Reuters in an interview.
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A spokesman for USAID said coordination work had already begun with the new administration of Prime Minister Gerard Latortue, but the government was not getting any money "just yet."

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Code speak for "Let's give aid to fundie Church groups to minister
to the needs of the Haitian people... and convert them to some form
of born again religion". Sigh. At least the people there might get
some food.

Another opportunity to funnel US tax-payer dollars to thugs.

And yes, in the near future, you can expect to see a USAID grant to Franklin Graham's NGO, Samaritan's Purse (Franklin is Billy Graham's son, and of course, Junior has a hotline to Billy).