The Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation, in partnership with the government of Haiti and the State University of Haiti, has announced $7.3 million in funding, including $5.5 million from the Qatar Haiti Fund and $1.8 million from the Inter-American Development Bank, to rebuild the Faculty of Sciences' earthquake-damaged main building in Port-au-Prince.

When completed, the new environmentally friendly building will include classrooms, lab space, and lecture halls and is expected to serve as an anchor for the Faculty of Sciences campus. The oldest science and engineering school in Haiti, and one of the oldest in the Caribbean, the Faculty of Sciences offers degrees in engineering, architecture, civil engineering, and electromechanics, as well as chemistry and topography. Before the 2010 quake, the State University of Haiti had approximately forty thousand students enrolled across eighteen campuses in and around the capital.

"This project will help speed the nation's rebuilding efforts with the engineering and development skills that students are learning at Haiti's largest public university," said Laura Graham, senior advisor of global programs for the Clinton Foundation. "This funding will help rebuild the Faculty of Sciences' main building, ensure better opportunities for education in Port-au-Prince, and strengthen the country's economic potential for generations to come."

"This project is of extreme importance to our country," said Harry Adam, executive director of the Haitian government's Unit for the Construction of Housing and Public Buildings. "We need engineers to participate in the physical reconstruction of their country. Our students made sacrifices and withstand three-year courses in unacceptable conditions; they deserve better."