NCBM President Completes Haiti Working Visit
A sign for help on Haiti's National Highway points to the desperate conditions following the devastating earthquake that struch on January 12, 2010.
National Conference of Black Mayors President Mayor George L. Grace recently returned from a two-day working visit in Haiti. Invited by Haiti’s Minister of Interior, the Honorable Paul Antoine Bien-Aime, Mayor Grace joined the working group of the National Leadership Conference of Haitian Mayors May 7-8. The group discussed the challenges and barriers to recovery and rebuilding faced currently on the ground in Haiti. The Mayors also explored how the National Conference of Black Mayors and its member mayors could best assist in the rebuilding efforts of their respective communities.
“The degree of the devastation is beyond our comprehension,” observed Mayor Grace. “It is compounded by living conditions that were intolerable prior to the earthquake. They are in dire need of our help.”
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