Rebuilding Haiti

A senior World Bank official is estimating that many of the 1.5 million people who were made homeless by the January 12 earthquake are likely to be living in camps into next year.



Pamela Cox, the World Bank's vice president for Latin America and the Caribbean, has described rebuilding the quake-ravaged Haiti as a task similar to rebuilding Europe after World War Two.



She says the reconstruction involves complex decisions on how to house or resettle more than a million people left homeless by one of the world's worst disasters.



Cox says the global community needs to be aware of the scale and complexity of the goal to build back a better Haiti.



The earthquake shattered large parts of the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, killing up to 300,000 people.