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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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Here is the most recent SOS Children's Villages built in Haiti. It is located in the city of Les Cayes

SOS Children's Villages (SOSCV) will launch its newest children's village in Les Cayes in January 2015. COO Hanne Rasmussen says the new village emphasizes SOSCV's ". . . commitment to providing vulnerable children with a loving home"

SOSCV Les Cayes has been made possible by donations from its member organizations in northern Europe and the USA.

SOSCV invests in education, community and vocational training centers, as well as its other villages in Port-au-Prince and Cap-Haitien.

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First Haitian-American elected to public office in US. The current Councilman of North Miami Beach, Philippe Derose was born in Haiti in 1952. He moved to the United States in 1974. He received a bachelor's degree in psychology at California Coast University. Philippe Derose married to Marie Derose and together, they have three children.

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During the inauguration of Village Lumane Casimir in Morne Cabrit, President Michel Martelly reminded the audience that it is very important to build an inclusive and stable fraternal community. He gave the named Village Lumane Casimir to this newly created housing community in memory of the famous Haitian singer Lumane Casimir. The talented Haitian singer Lumane Casimir died in poverty due to tuberculosis

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What you are looking at is a bird view of the entire Village Lumane Casimir in Morne-à-Cabris. This is a first in Haiti, a community made of like homes made off same materials with same designs.

President Martelly made it clear that this village will not really address the housing problems in the whole of Haiti, it is just part of a bigger vision for the developing the housing sector in the entire country.

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Here is the School at Village Lumane Casimir in Morne-à-Cabris. The village everything the residents need to manage their own lives.

This social project is a part of Martelly-Lamothe administration interventions targeted towards assisting Haiti's most vulnerable.

The project began under the guidance of UCLBP or Unit for Housing Construction and Public Buildings.

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Here ia an example of self suffiency. Water System in Village Lumane Casimir in Morne-à-Cabris. This new village was designated with the intent to be self sufficient and for the homes to be equipped with modern comfort. Each home in the village has its own bathroom and toilet.

On May 16, 2013, President Michael Martelly went with a symbolic deliverance by handing out keys to 8 out of 120 beneficiary families.

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This is supposed to solve the housing problem in Haiti. Village Lumane Casimir in Morne-à-Cabris is self sufficient with its own utilities.

many people complained about the size of each home build which is appears to be small. The government argument is that the government is only looking to provide the basic for these people. Ith home is equiped with a kitchen, bathroom. the area has its own water system

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This is a View of road in Lumane Casimir Village. This project that started receiving residents in May, 2013 was inaugurated on the same Month by the Haitian President, Michel Martelly.

It is expected to be a solution for the housing problem in Haiti since the 2010 earthquake. This project is expected to build over 300, 000 homes

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Here is another picture of Morne cabrite Village. By its name, Village Lumane Casimir in Morne-à-Cabris it was named to honor a great Haitian singer Lumane Casimir

This is one of teh major plans by the Haitian government to remove the people affected by the 2010 earthquake that killed over 300,000 people in Haiti and place them in permanent housing

The project is expected to build 3,000 rental houses in Morne-à-Cabris.

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