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In 2010 Coordinated relief efforts after the 12 January earthquake. $250,000 was raised for this relief project. Medical supplies, building supplies, 150 tons of rice and beans and a backhoe were purchased. Aid was shipped to La Gonâve via a leased vessel and delivered directly to La Gonâve in early March 2010.
Gonaïves (Haitian Creole: Gonayiv) is an arrondissement in the Artibonite department of Haiti. It has 263,858 inhabitants. [1] Postal codes in the Gonaïves Arrondissement start with the number 41. The arrondissement consists of the following municipalities: Gonaïves; Ennery; L'Estère
Anse-à-Galets (Haitian Creole: Ansagalèt) is a commune and city in the La Gonâve Arrondissement, in the Ouest department on Gonâve Island in Haiti, located to the west-northwest of Port-au-Prince in the Gulf of Gonâve. It is the largest commune on the island and has 62,559 inhabitants.
Gonaïves is also known as Haiti's city of independence, because it was the location of Jean-Jacques Dessalines declaring Haiti independent from France on January 1, 1804, by reading the Act of Independence, drafted by Boisrond Tonnerre, on the Place d'Armes of the town.
Haiti’s government on Thursday doubled down on the construction of a canal on Haitian soil that would divert water from a river it shares with the Dominican Republic, which in response last week ...
Pointe-à-Raquette (French pronunciation: [pwɛ̃t a ʁakɛt]; Haitian Creole: Pwentarakèt) is a commune in the La Gonâve Arrondissement, in the Ouest department of Haiti. It has 22,886 inhabitants.
Morne-à-Chandelle is a village in the La Gonâve Arrondissement, in the Ouest department of Haiti, on the southern side of the Gulf of Gonâve. It is located 7.7 miles (12.4 km) east of Léogâne .
Artibonite (French pronunciation: [aʁtibɔnit]; Haitian Creole: Latibonit) is one of the ten departments of Haiti located in central Haiti. With an area of 4,887 km 2 it is Haiti's largest department. As of 2015, its estimated population was 1,727,524. [3] The region is the country's main rice-growing area.