The United States, the European Union and others pledged $600 million US in additional funds Wednesday to help hundreds of thousands struggling six months after a powerful earthquake struck Haiti’s southern region.
The pledges made during a conference held by the United Nations and Haiti’s government fell short of an international push to raise $2 billion US to help the country rebuild from a magnitude 7.2 quake last August.
The quake killed an estimated 2,200 people and destroyed or damaged more than 130,000 homes and some 1,250 schools.
A car drives along a damaged road in Marceline, Haiti, in a picture taken
