Haiti President Rene Preval met with President Barack Obama and Congress this week to discuss Haiti’s most-pressing needs. Relief workers and U.S. government officials say that Haiti is far from recovered after an earthquake January 12 crumbled the country’s infrastructure. The Haitian government estimates that 230,000 died because of the disaster.
Students on road to Cange
A team of Clemson University civil engineering students are working in that troubled island over the next week. They will be working in Cange, a remote village two hours from Port-au-Prince.They are prepared for that they might face because they were helping Haiti before the quake hit.
Adam Delk is a graduate student and we talked to him Friday about the trip made by Clemson Engineers for Developing Countries.
(Adam Delk explains their long-term work in Cange MP3 2:47)
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