Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Dec 16, 2010 / 23:06 pm
Haiti's bishops have appointed the leader of an architecture and engineering unit, which will oversee the reconstruction of church property damaged in the January 2010 earthquake.
On Dec. 16, the Haitian bishops' conference confirmed the appointment of Yves Lacourcière, a Quebec native and civil engineer with 30 years of international experience in construction, project management and economic development.
Lacourcière also holds an advanced business degree and has done doctoral work in the field of ethnology. He is married to a Haitian woman, Sherly Saint-Jean, and speaks both French and Creole in addition to Spanish.
He will serve as the director general of the agency, “Proximité Catholique avec Haïti et son Eglise,” a name that translates as “closeness to Haiti and its Church.”