rebuilding

After years of rebuilding, most Afghans lack power (AP)

July 19th, 2010

In Tuesday, April 27, 2010 photo, an Afghan refugee lights his gas lamp outside his tent in Kabul, Afghanistan. Afghanistan consumes less energy per person than any other country in the world, even after years of reconstruction efforts, according to data compiled by the U.S. government.(AP Photo/Dar Yasin)AP - The goal is to transform Afghanistan into a modern nation, fueled by a U.S.-led effort pouring $60 billion into bringing electricity, clean water, jobs, roads and education to…

China says quake relief will shift to rebuilding (AP)

April 25th, 2010

--FILE-- Chinese men walk past a flag flown at half-staff on Tiananmen Square in Beijing in this April 21, 2010, file photo. A senior government official said Sunday, April 25, earthquake relief efforts in a Tibetan region will shift from searching for possible survivors to reconstruction and the resettlement of those who lost homes after the temblor flattened tens of thousands of houses, state media reported. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)AP - A senior government official said earthquake relief efforts in a Tibetan region will shift from searching for possible survivors to reconstruction and the resettlement of those who lost…

Work in China’s quake zone switches to rebuilding (AP)

April 19th, 2010

Tibetan children sit inside their temporary makeshift school as they wait for class to start in earthquake-hit Yushu county, northwest China's Qinghai province, Monday, April 19, 2010. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)AP - Heavy construction machinery and trucks carrying aid to earthquake survivors clogged streets Monday morning as this shattered town in remote western China turned to rebuilding, and search teams…

Haiti to use quake rubble in capital’s rebuilding (AP)

April 3rd, 2010

A man prays in a camp for people displaced by the earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Friday, April 2, 2010. A 7.0-magnitude earthquake hit Haiti on Jan. 12, killing and injuring thousands and leaving more than a million people living in makeshift camps. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)AP - The rubble from Haiti’s shattered capital is rising in heaps at the port, dumped for sorting and recycling by a fleet of heavy, exhaust-belching trucks.


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Chile says rebuilding after quake could take years (AP)

March 5th, 2010

A soldier patrols in Dichato, Chile, Thursday, March 4, 2010. An earthquake caused a tsunami that hit Chile's coastal central region on Feb. 27. (AP Photo/Ricardo Mazalan)AP - Chile’s president says it will take three years to rebuild the region wracked by an earthquake and tsunami, something all too clear to the people cleaning up this…