Rebuilding Haiti Needs Global 'A-Team,' Says Farmer

Paul Farmer described the Haiti crisis as “massive,” requiring  “the international A-team on this, caseworking with the Haitian people.”

The United Nations deputy special envoy for Haiti spoke before the U.S. Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, Agence France-Presse reports. He said more than 75 percent of Port-au-Prince needs rebuilding.

Farmer suggested the creation of a fund that would invest in Haiti’s reconstruction efforts, with the Inter-American Development Bank or a similar entity maintaining the facility, and the U.N. and the Haitian government managing it.