Just 5% Of The Rubble Cleared A Year On From Haiti Earthquake (So What Happened To The £7bn Of Aid?) -- The Daily Mail
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Workers have only cleared five per cent of the rubble a year after the Haiti earthquake despite donations of £7bn, it has emerged.
As its ten million citizens held two days of memorials for the 250,000 killed in the disaster, the island still looks little different from the immediate aftermath of the catastrophe.
Experts estimate that there is still enough rubble to fill trucks parked bumper to bumper halfway around the world.
With 200 vehicles, this would take eleven years. Haiti does not have any trucks.
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