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Here is the Ceremony handling housing keys to police officers in the area to dull the kid, ONA city area.

The village project Ona-ville is located in the region of Morne-à-Cabri. If you want to reach there you have to cross some five kilometers clay, very powdery road to get to ONA-City in Morne-à-Cabri. The project was initiated by ONA back in 1997 during the period of President Rene Preval as a housing solution for public service holders. But, when it was inaugurated in 2003 during the period of Aristide, became a fiasco; very few people were interested to go there. Now, with the help of an MOU between the Haitian government and ONA ((National Old-Age Insurance Office), the employees of Haitian National Police employees can find their long sought home with a low interest loan (0.50% per month) from ONA which would be deducted from their salary. Presently ninety, residential units in a 125,548 square meters area (1351388 square feet) have been completed in three categories: Type I: 221 Sq meters with five bedrooms, four toilets; Type II: 217 meters with four bedrooms, 3 toilets and Type III: is 196 meters with 3 bedrooms, 2 toilets. As per President Martelly's announcement 400 more units are under the planning stage. The completed ninety units have been inaugurated by the President on Thursday, November 26, 2015, in the presence of Prime Minister Evans Paul, Émmanuel Ménard, the Director General of the ONA and other important officials of the police, government, political and religious circles. The project has cost $18 million to ONA.

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Here is a picture of Noailles Village. This is a thriving city in Haitian art as it produces metal sculpture.

Noailles Village is the only place in Haiti where metal work occurs. The town is a colony of metal workers, who carve custom iron crosses.

The metal work small-scale industry started in 1956 when George Liataud starting making esthetically pleasing iron crosses to mark graves and tombs in Croix-des-Bouquet's cemeteries. Eventually he combined Voodoo and Christian symbols to appeal to the tourist market.

Today Noailles Village has a legacy of generations of metal work artists.

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Welcme to the city of Port-à-Piment in Haiti. It is located in the South peninsula about 52 km from the town of Les Cayes.

Port-a-Piment Burgeoning Tourist Destination. It is a coastal town in South Department, with a population at the last census count of 17,000-plus.

Its education system is well developed with primary, secondary, and university level schools. But its health system is not, with a single health center and recently built hospital.

The primary tourist attraction, Marie-Jeanne Cave, is still being excavated for riches hidden there by Taino Indians. The spectular beauty of the caves will help to draw more tourists to the area.

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East of Port-au-Prince, in the district of Croix-des-Bouquets, is Cornillon, a town right along the Haitian border with the Dominican Republic. As of 2009, there were over 50,000 people living in the municipality that has its main source of income tied to the cultivation of crops such as fruit trees and coffee. The town recently celebrated its 125th anniversary, an event for which they had a fundraiser and welcomed President Martelly, who went bearing gifts of agricultural tools for local farmers and scholarships to universities for 3 deserving residents.

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Located on the southern coast of the country, Marigot can be found at the coordinates, 18° 14' 2" North, 72° 18' 60" West. Being relatively far away from the epicenter of the 2010 earthquake, the town remained mainly unaffected by it, but they did lose a two-story school building that has not yet been rebuilt. The Star of Hope organization, which has had a hand in the community since 1998, has been essential in plans for rebuilding the school.

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