‘Qatar City’ planned for Haiti after $20m pledge
Jun 10, 2013
Qatar has finalised the details of a development called ‘Qatar City’ being funded near Port-au-Prince as part of an aid pledge made by the Gulf state in the wake of Haiti’s devastating 2010 earthquake.
The project is a being jointly funded with $5m from Qatar and $4m from the US Agency for International Development (USAID), and involves 148 houses, a vocational training school and a commercial area.
The entire development will cover 5.55 hectares of land in Cabaret - 22.5km from Port-au-Prince. Each of the 35m2 homes on the project will have two rooms, and be able to resist both hurricanes and earthquakes.
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