‘A decade of efforts’ needed for rebuilding

QUAKE-HIT Haiti will need at least a decade of painstaking reconstruction, aid chiefs and donor nations warned, as homeless, scarred survivors struggled yesterday to rebuild their lives.

Two weeks after the disaster which killed about 150,000 people and left a million homeless, fresh looting and chaotic food handouts underlined the grim conditions facing those who lived through the 7.0 magnitude quake.

“Right now, the needs of the people are survival and immediate recovery,” said Pierre Kraehenbuehl, who is director of operations at the International Committee of the Red Cross.