Pamela Cox, World Bank Vice President for Latin America and the Caribbean and her delegation, received by Mayor Yvon Cherry and Joseph Aubourg, Délégué of the City of Les Cayes, in the Southern part of Haiti.

 

 

Yvonne Tsikata, WB Director for the Caribbean, Pamela Cox, WB LAC VP, Mathurin Gbetibouo, WB Country Manager for Haiti, and Jean Max Bellerive, Minister of Planning and External Cooperation listen to the welcoming remarks by Joseph Aubourg, Délegué of Les Cayes.

 

 

 

In Gros Marin, Ms. Cox talked to community leaders and exchanged ideas with working men and women in a grain mill funded by the Community-Driven Development (CDD) project.

 

    

 

A local woman straining corn flour.  Before the grain mill was in place, women had to spend considerable amounts of money and many hours traveling to Cavaillon to get their corn processed.

 

 

Meeting with local authorities, as well as beneficiaries of an Emergency Recovery and Disaster Management flood control sub-project in Cavaillon.

 

 

Ms. Cox was greeted by more than 200 beneficiary children from a school feeding program in Torbeck, while they were having lunch.

 

 

 

Ms. Cox and Minister Bellerive with the Principal and other teachers at the school in Torbeck

 

 

 

Ms. Cox and Ms. Tsikata looking at handicrafts made by school kids in Torbeck

 

 

 

Mathurin Gbetibouo, WB Country Manager for Haiti, comments about the beautiful work performed by the students.

 

 

 

Ms. Cox and Ms. Tsikata were presented with flowers by school students in Torbeck.

 

 

 

His Excellency René Préval, President of Haiti and Ms. Cox at the Haitian National Palace.