As Filipinos continue digging out of the deadly destruction left by Typhoon Haiyan this past week, halfway across the world, another disaster offers some valuable lessons.<br/> <br />Haiti is still struggling to lift itself from the rubble left by the 2010 earthquake.<br/> <br />The quake killed some 230,000 people and left nearly two million homeless.<br/> <br />Some half a million still live in crowded tent camps, many without running water or electricity.<br/> <br />Despite billions of dollars pledged to help Haiti rebuild, reconstruction efforts remain painstakingly slow.<br/> <br />Johan Peleman, of the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, blames Haiti's scale of destruction.<br/> <br />(SOUNDBITE) (English) JOHAN PELEMAN, HEAD OF OCHA OFFICE IN HAITI, SAYING:<br/> <br />"We know that very well, durable solution is, yes, build new housing. But in a city where hundreds of thousands of houses and apartments were utterly destroyed, you can't just do that overnight."<br/> <br />In the Philippines, Haiya
