USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah said Friday that the goal in earthquake-ravaged Haiti by 2015 is to have 30 percent of U.S. aid go to programs managed by local Haitian groups, rather than international organizations. Haitians have questioned why so much international money goes to foreign non-governmental organizations and workers when there are Haitian engineers and other professionals able and willing to help in rebuilding their country. Before the January 2010 earthquake, Shah said less than 9 percent of USAID...
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