Tuesday, March 27, 2012

ARTICLE - D.R. - INFRASTRUCTURE

FERNANDEZ ANNOUNCES DONATIONS, INFRASTRUCTURE FOR HAITI
(Dominican Today) -

Santo Domingo - President Fernandez, on Monday announced the delivery of 2.0 million stoves, and the same number of medium size propane gas tanks free of charge for poor homes in Haiti, aimed at substituting the use of charcoal with cooking gas.

The donation forms part of the agreements signed by Haiti president Michel Martelly and Fernandez and through the recently created Bolivarian Fund.

That Fund will also finance the construction of a 138 kilowatt link to Haiti’s and the Dominican Republic’s national electrical grids, aimed at making the neighboring country’s energy system more efficient.

Fernandez said among the projects in Haiti are: the repair of the Artibonito dam, the construction of eight hospitals in border towns; four in Jimani, Dajabon, Elias PiƱa and Pedernales, and four others in Malpasse, Belladere, Anse-a-Pitre and Ouanaminthe.

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