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Original Message From: Mark Hyman To: Cheryl D Mills ; Cc: H Sent: Sun Jul 11 15:44:03 2010 Subject: FW: Talking Points needing assistance
Dear Cheryl,
I know you have been working hard on recovery and rebuilding in Haiti. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
As you know working with my cousin, David Meltzer from the American Red Cross, and David Perez, we secured a grant from the ARC for $10 million for 18 months of salary support for the University Hospital (HUEH) (which for political issues on the Haitian side had to be reduced to $3.8 million).
I also know things are moving forward with the IHRC as they met in June.
I would like to ask your help in thinking about how to remove roadblocks with existing initiatives in Haiti including investment in hotels, housing, job creation and healthcare.
Details about these pending initiatives are in the email from David Perez below.
There are many who want to invest and help but are being deterred by the politics.
Is there a time David Perez and I could come to Washington to meet with you to discuss strategies and tactics to move things forward more effectively.
I fear that investors will be deterred and "building Haiti back better will remain a hope not a reality.
Thank you for again for all you do for Haiti and us.
Mark
Mark Hyman, MD Chairman, Institute for Functional Medicine Volunteer, Partners in Health Founder and Medical Director The Ultra Wellness Center 45 Walker Street Lenox, MA 01240 office: cell: fax (413) 637-9995
Forwarded Message From: David Perez Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2010 12:56:00 To: Mark Hyman Subject: Talking Points needing assistance
Dear Mark,
I have 4 major programs in the works and seems the GoH is non functioning and non responsive.
Please try and arrange ameeting with Cheryl Mills for me to discuss the projects and how she can best facilitate the issuance of letters to investors whoneed assurance on land allotment and require agreements on what the lease rates are on public lands.
We have the details oneach project and can email them to her upon her request.
Its been 5 months we have been working on these projects and itsseems we are not any closer now than we were before.
Priority 1: Grand Hotel-Haiti - Taher Investments -fully funded
Taher Invest - " TaherInvest is a Jordanian International Investment Group with offices in Jordan, Afghanistan, Romania, Vietnam, United Arab Emirates, Morocco and the United States. TaherInvest owns, operates or has under development more then twenty-six companies.
Fathi Taher established his first company in 1964 as a continuation of his family business in Kuwait. The business began trading between Romania, Bulgaria and Turkey to the Arabian Gulf. It later extended to Austria, Germany and Scandinavia. With time, the business expanded with the trading of steel, wood products, industrial glass, cement and petrochemicals. By 1984 the company had annual revenues exceeding US$100 million. The focus of the business changed in the 1990s as a result of the opportunities presented by the collapse of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Taherlnvest moved to a mergers and acquisition based strategy focused on large infrastructure projects, real estate (including agricultural land), factories and operating businesses.
Taherlnvest continues to flourish and is involved in many development activities that include energy infrastructure, real estate projects, heavy industries, hotels and rail-transit systems. The company has several specialized companies in heavy industry that include: production, manufacturing, fabrication and erection of steel structures. Taherlnvest is currently involved in the development of several projects, notably rail transit systems in the Middle East and Africa and two large development projects, the Grand Hotel Kabul and the Kabul Grand Residences, in Kabul, Afghanistan. In addition, it is also developing several other 5-Star hotels in Africa and the Middle East."
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