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NPR: An interview with Paul Farmer on Rebuilding Efforts in Haiti

Sunday, 31 July 2011 00:00

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/world/july-dec11/paulfarmer_07-28.html

Paul Farmer:

That project in central Haiti, in Mirebalais, is a giant hospital, is due to come online or start to come online just two years after the quake. So I think we can say, look, you can get stuff done in Haiti. You work with Haitian colleagues and public health authorities, you can get things done.

But it does require, as you say, just gutting it out, you know, sticking with it and not being discouraged. That's another thing is, there are so many impediments to work, that -- to effective work -- that people get discouraged and quit too early or for the wrong reasons.

But there are also people who stick with it. And a lot of my Haitian colleagues, some of whom you have met, are still at it. And they're an inspiration to me.

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