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Dubai Duty Free Launches $1.5 Million Sports Complex In Haiti

Dubai Duty Free and Hand in Hand for Haiti "will launch the Dubai Duty Free Sports Complex" at the Lycee Jean-Baptiste Pointe du Sable of St. Marc in Haiti, according to GULF NEWS. Built through donations "following the devastating earthquake that hit the Caribbean country" in Jan. '10, the sports facility features an int'l regulation football pitch with artificial turf, a basketball court, two volleyball courts and a 400-meter six-lane athletic track. The sports and leisure facility "was constructed" at a cost of $1.5M. Dubai Duty Free donated $500,000 from its Foundation toward "the construction of the sports complex" (GULF NEWS, 5/21).

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