Haiti - Japan : Rehabilitation of the Faculty of Human Sciences 9 years later
Fils Aimé Ignace Saint Fieur, Director General of the Monetary Office of Development Assistance Programs (BMPAD), in the presence of the Japanese Ambassador to Haiti Mizumo Mitsuaki, Rector of the State University of Haiti (UEH) Fritz Deshommes and members of the Administrative Council and students of the Faculty of Human Sciences (FASH), this week officially launched the rehabilitation work of the FASH heavily damaged by the earthquake of January 2010.
It should be remembered that for the past 9 years, students have been attending classes in light-structure sheds that were beginning to deteriorate badly.
With funding from the Government of Japan, as part of President Jovenel Moïse's vision to modernize State-owned enterprises, including higher education institutions, and to provide students with a more modern and safer, FASH will be fully rehabilitated and strengthened.
It is the Haitian engineering firm EXECO.S.A. which has been tasked with executing the works that will last 10 months, that Japan is financing close to 70 million gourdes (69,322,659.44 Gdes) in the framework of the bilateral cooperation Haiti - Japan.
In his intervention, Fils Aimé Ignace Saint Fieur recalled that the FASH had already trained several thousand students and that it was "one of the magnificent jewels of Haitian higher education" for him, there is no more beautiful ways of doing justice to the reputation of the Faculty as well as to the students who attend today and aspire, every day more to better conditions of training and existence.
