"As thousands peacefully took to the streets in Haiti’s quake-scarred capital city Wednesday, Haitian officials and foreign diplomats focused on rebuilding the country’s shattered economy with new commitments of more than $240 million in foreign aid.
On the second anniversary Thursday of the earthquake that killed more than 300,000 people, frustrations are mounting but Haitian leaders and foreign donors are trying to lay the foundation for change and move the conversation away from aid to development and job opportunities for millions of Haitians who currently rely on informal jobs, remittances and nongovernmental organizations to survive."
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