Engineers were able to create maps like the above after assessing the homes, like Jeanne Bousiko's.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI – Last year Jeanne Bousiko (pictured below) was counting her blessings after 
being told that her house had been spared from the destruction of the January 2010 earthquake, and that it was safe for her family to live there.
She got the good news from a team of engineers that assessed her house for safety as part of a GFDRR/World Bank-supported evaluation of 400,000 buildings in the wake of the quake that killed 230,000 people and left thousands more homeless. Two years after the earthquake, many initiatives are underway to promote disaster risk management (DRM) mainstreaming in reconstruction projects. Please see the videos below to learn more.
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Articles, images and videos courtesy of the World Bank's Latin America and Caribbean Disaster Risk Management team's colleague, Michel Matera. For more information, please visit the World Bank's Haiti webpage or contact Christina Irene at cirene@worldbank.org.
