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January 26, 2010

Lessons From The Rubble

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Aid agencies are gathering this week to talk about what's next after the earthquake in Haiti. Claude Jeudy has a few ideas. He's Haiti's director of Habitat for Humanity, an organization that prides itself on providing safe and affordable housing. Claude tells Dick that once he saw all the crumbled homes in Port au Prince, he knew it was time to convince fellow Haitians to change the way they build their homes.

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