UN General Assembly
2018

How can we talk about sustainable development when there is no drinking water in families’ taps? How can we speak of sustainable development when there is no water for the irrigation of agricultural land? How can we speak of sustainable development when there are no good roads linking cities and villages? How can we speak of sustainable development when there is no electrical or digital infrastructure? How can we speak of sustainable development when there is no adequate school or sanitary infrastructure? It is those questions that we ask ourselves, the answers to which we are tirelessly striving to find for the Haitian people. In order to build a suitable electrical and digital transmission and distribution network over Haiti’s 27,750 square kilometres, we need approximately $400 million. The Republic of Haiti has nearly 1 million hectares of agricultural land, half of which can be easily irrigated. Unfortunately, only 5 per cent of that land is irrigated, meaning that we need $675 million to