UniQ Stays Strong: A Resilient Institution After the January 12 Earthquake

On Tuesday, January 12, 2010, an earthquake struck Haiti. Magnitude 7.3. Standing in the courtyard of Université Quisqueya (UniQ), where he serves as rector, Jacky Lumarque watched as the buildings, inaugurated on December 20, 2009, collapsed like a house of cards. In just 35 seconds, UniQ’s facilities were reduced to a mound of concrete and rubble. A lifetime of work, gone in the blink of an eye.

How does one recover when the work they fought for is destroyed overnight? Standing in the UniQ courtyard that fateful afternoon, Jacky Lumarque witnessed the collapse of the dream he had worked so hard to achieve. "I had an intuition: I told myself that no one would help us get back on our feet if we didn’t help ourselves. So, I decided to use our reserve fund to set an example," Jacky Lumarque told Le Nouvelliste during a discussion held on Friday, January 10, 2025, in anticipation of the 15th anniversary of the ea

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