Emergency aid funded by Plan donors is reaching victims of the earthquake in Haiti. Plan has provided 1,500 families with food every day since the quake struck and a shipment of vital Plan aid – including 4,000 tents and more than 300 survival kits – is now being distributed across the Jacmel area in south Haiti.
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Through Lions Clubs International Foundation, Lions worldwide are providing relief to earthquake victims in Haiti. “Lions Hope for Haiti” has mobilized more than US$1.2 million to provide relief and hope for the people of Haiti. LCIF is working directly with Lions of Haiti and Lions in neighboring countries to assess the immediate needs and develop a long-term reconstruction plan. Your donation can help Lions provide hope to Haiti.
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United Nations, New York, 24 February 2010 – A United Nations top official in Haiti said today (24 February) that the disaster response to the 12 January earthquake that devastated the Caribbean nations capital of Port-au-Prince has been the most challenging the organization has ever faced in its history.
The Acting Principal Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General for the UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH), Anthony Banbury, who as the Asia Regional Director for the World Food Programme had to deal with the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami and Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar, told journalists that as devastating and terrible as those tragedies were, the complexity and scale of response required in Haiti exceeds those and anything the UN has ever faced.
Banbury pointed out that the soon-to-arrive rainy season will pose a grave challenge and that not all of the one million people in need of shelter and sanitation will receive proper assistance by that point.
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He said that there will be flooding, there will be discomfort, misery, and thats not avoidable at this stage.
The MINUSTAH official stressed that the mission was well prepared for hurricanes, public unrest and landslides with contingency plans and quick reaction forces in place but, never planned for such a unique set of circumstances.
More than 66,000 families (330,000 people) have received emergency shelter materials, about 30 per cent of the estimated need. More than 250,000 tarpaulins and tents are in the pipeline and will be distributed immediately upon arrival, according to the latest report from the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
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Pres. Obama: Haiti has full support of U.S. in relief efforts
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In response to yesterdays earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, U.S. aid workers and rescue teams will be sent to Haiti to assist that country in their relief efforts. After Pres. Obama discussed the earthquake and steps the U.S. is taking to aid the people of Haiti, both the Defense Dept. and State Dept. discussed their roles in relief efforts.
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Hear from volunteer doctors at HHI’s Fond Parisien disaster Recovery Center. Take a tour as volunteers show you where surgeries are conducted, how surgeons power their tools, who changes bandages, and how lives are being saved.
Video by Chris Morrow, CNN iReport (http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-400168).
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The third phase of Habitat’s recovery plan in response to the Haiti earthquake will be replacing destroyed homes using a core house model. For more info on this core house design, visit http://www.habitat.org/disaster/active_programs/Core_houses.aspx#P0_0.
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Samaritan’s Purse, the Boone-based non-profit organization that provides immediate response to the physical and spiritual needs of individuals in crisis situations, dispatched a team just hours after the quake to help with water, shelter, medical care, and other emergency needs. An initial shipment of emergency relief items were loaded onto a DC-3 cargo plane to fly to Port Au Prince today. I went to the national headquarters located here in Boone to get more information on the relief effort.
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Disaster relief is crucial in the short time after a disaster. World Concern and Operation Blessing are providing disaster relief for immediate needs to people in Haiti through emergency food distribution. All of this is an effort to keep families alive.
Learn more at: http://disasters.worldconcern.org
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011310 – Two women with family in Haiti wait for news.011310 – Two women with family in Haiti wait for news.
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Al Jazeera speaks to John O’Shea, the founder of the Irish medical charity, Goal, who has participated in the the Haiti earthquake relief effort.
He’s been heavily critical of the coordination and leadership of the aid mission in the Carribean country.
Shea has called the response to the natural disaster from the international community a “man made disaster“.
[January 19, 2010]
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