The executive board of the International Monetary Fund approved
Wednesday the cancellation of Haiti's $268 million debt to the fund.

The board also approved a three-year request by authorities to support Haiti's reconstruction and growth program.

The decisions are part of an effort to support Haiti's longer-term reconstruction plans after the January 12 earthquake, which killed more
than 220,000 people, destroyed 60 percent of government infrastructure
and left more than 180,000 homes u

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We are coming up on an important anniversary, but not the kind of anniversary to be celebrated: On July 12, it will be six months since an earthquake devastated my country, Haiti. My wife, Claudinette, and I
have tried to be on the ground in Haiti as much as we can since then
with the organization I co-founded more than five years ago, Yéle Haiti.
In fact, we were there the day after the quake hit, and we've been back
many times since.

Every time I return, I'm in awe of the spirit and

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On January 12, the earth shook here. More than 220,000 people were
killed. More than 300,000 people were injured. The city and large
stretches of surrounding countryside were devastated.

Six months later, not much appears to have changed. It still looks like a bomb just dropped on this city.

The government has barely begun the cleanup process. Roads in the center of the city are still blocked by debris. And some experts predict that it could take up to 20 years to
remove all of it.

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The sun was beating down on the rocky cactus plain when men with
machetes came for Menmen Villase, nine months pregnant, shoved her onto
her bulging stomach and sliced up the plastic tarp that sheltered her
and her four children.

The family was one of thousands of earthquake homeless who had come to this Manhattan-sized stretch of disused sugarcane land between the sea and barren mountains north of Port-au-Prince, seeking refuge from
overflowing camps in the city.

But this real estat

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