Haitian President René Préval has estimated it will take three years to clear the rubble left by last month’s devastating earthquake. Préval told the Associated Press, “It will take 1,000 trucks moving rubble for 1,000 days, so that’s three years. And until we move out rubble, we cannot really build.” On Monday approximately 200 Haitians took to the streets of Port-au-Prince to protest the government’s response to the earthquake. Jean Enock Joseph called on the Haitian government, church and civil society to take responsibility for the care of the local population.

Jean Enock Joseph: “Two hundred and fifty thousand wounded Haitians is something extraordinary. We say, and we say again, that the state has to take responsibility, the church has to take responsibility, civil society has to take responsibility.”