Haiti Asks Expat Professionals to Return and Help

Haiti Asks Expat Professionals to Return and Help, by A. D. McKenzie, Inter Press Service News Agency, May 13, 2010 Members of the Haitian diaspora responded with "massive and spontaneous" aid immediately after the Jan. 12 earthquake, with thousands of professionals leaving jobs abroad to go and assist their compatriots, according to a government minister. Now the Haitian authorities are hoping that even more expatriates will return to settle in the Caribbean country as it undertakes its immense reconstruction programme. More...