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The AMHE has sent over 400 doctors to Haiti since the quake, this is a short video about the first group that landed 4 days after the quake.The AMHE has sent over 400 doctors to Haiti since the quake, this is a short video... more
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Since the January 12th earthquake, clean water has been one of the most precious commodities in Haiti. Bottle by bottle, Nestlé Waters has been trying to ease conditions in the devastated country. Director of Corporate Citizenship, Alex McIntosh, tells what it takes to move 400,000 gallons of water into a disaster area.Since the January 12th earthquake, clean water has been one of the most precious... more
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A woman was literally singing with joy after she was rescued from the wreckage in Port-au-Prince, one week after the powerful earthquake left tens of thousands of people dead.
An international rescue team comprised of members from the U.S. Air Force, a Virginia Task Force, Turkey and France pulled a 25-year-old woman trapped under a collapsed building.
Haitian officials estimated the death toll from the earthquake could be between 100,000 and 200,000, and said 75,000 bodies had already been buried in mass graves.
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Security cameras at a bakery in Port-au-Prince captured the moment that a magnitude 7 earthquake devastated Haiti on January 12.
Footage from a camera inside the bakery in the Delmas distict of the capital shows customers desperately scrambling to get outside as the earthquake strikes.
A second camera outside shows parked cars rocking and a building opposite collapsing.
The bakery was not destroyed in the earthquake and its French owner has now started to bake bread again, according to Euronews.
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U.S. Marines in amphibious landing craft brought ashore bulldozers, mechanical diggers and trucks at a beach west of Port-au-Prince. The Marines arrived from warships anchored offshore Haiti. The beach they arrived at was near the village of Neply.
Pack-laden troops on the beach handed out food rations and set up temporary shelters for the homeless. Crowds of Haitians quietly watched as the Marines set up a forward base in the grounds of an old mission school, pitching rows of tents flanked by a row of latrines.
Lieutenant Colonel John Golden of the U.S. Marine Corps said they would be there providing disaster relief, but that they were facing some challenges.
Traffic congestion in Port-au-Prince was worse than ever on Wednesday -- perhaps a small sign of recovery -- as aid trucks and locals drove to gasoline stations to fill their tanks, jamming streets still cluttered with earthquake debris.
To speed the arrival of aid and stem looting and violence, the U.N. Security Council has unanimously agreed to temporarily add 2,000 U.N. troops and 1,500 police to the 9,000-member peacekeeping mission in Haiti.
Around 12,000 U.S. military personnel are on the ground in Haiti and on ships offshore.
The World Food Program says it has provided 200,000 people with rations for seven days, but the International Organization for Migration estimated that 200,000 families -- or one million people -- were in need of immediate shelter.
For more news video by Current TV visit http://current.com/U.S. Marines in amphibious landing craft brought ashore bulldozers, mechanical diggers... more
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez criticized the United States' role in its Haiti relief efforts saying the U.S. should send more doctors and not enter the country with "a license to kill".
The socialist leader made the statement in Caracas while inaugurating a new cable car system in the capital city.
The U.S. military is spearheading the huge ongoing international relief effort in the devastated Caribbean country and has around 12,000 personnel on the ground or on ships offshore.
For his part, the leader of the OPEC nation has promised fuel for the quake-stricken nation.
Chavez also had harsh words for Chile's president-elect, conservative billionaire Sebastian Pinera.
The president-elect admits to profound differences with Chavez including ideas in the practice of democracy and economic development.
Pinera was elected president, ending two decades of center-left rule since the end of Gen. Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship in 1990.
For more news video by Current TV visit http://current.com/Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez criticized the United States' role in its Haiti... more
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Over one week since a catastrophic earthquake turned what was already a desperately poor part of the world into a full fledged humanitarian emergency, the staff of an orphanage in the Haitian capital of Port-au Prince are trying to figure out what to do with all the children who have recently lost their families.
The orphanage, which houses 40 children, was operating in a much larger building before the quake rendered it unusable. Fifty more children are expected to arrive shortly.
Separated and unaccompanied minors are being taken into the interim centers being set up by UNICEF to house, feed and care for 900 children who have found themselves alone in the midst of this emergency.
The United States is loosening its visa requirements in order to expedite adoptions of 900 Haitian children.
Illegal adoption was an issue of concern before the earthquake. Amidst the chaos that followed it has become an even more urgent matter as many children have been taken out of the country without following proper legal procedures.
While adoption can be a viable option for many children who have lost their parents in the earthquake it is still reasonable to think that many people are still out there looking for their children or the children of their relatives.
To prevent the illegal departure of many children UNICEF is deploying two specialized staff to control documentation at the airport.
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A "slice of life" look at a Haitian restaurant in Los Angeles where a caring businessman and his generous customers are pitching in to help Haiti recover from its devastating earthquake.A "slice of life" look at a Haitian restaurant in Los Angeles where a caring... more
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Crisis Camp is an organization which draws computer programmers, hackers, disaster relief experts and other volunteers to collaborate on the goal of using computer applications to directly assist those in need. The projects for Haiti include creating a more accurate base layer map of Port-au-Prince, compiling and simplifying family-locater services through a Google database for quake victims, developing mobile translation apps and using social networking sights, such as Twitter, to coordinate relief efforts on the ground. For more information visit crisiscamp.orgCrisis Camp is an organization which draws computer programmers, hackers, disaster... more
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As a new earthquake shook the devastated Haitian capital Port-au-Prince, rattling already wrecked buildings and triggering panic among survivors of last week's devastating quake, there was some good news for one Haitian couple.
At a field hospital run by Belgian doctors and German search and rescue crews, Madam Marcus and her husband René Jean Marcus welcomed a baby boy.
The unnamed child was in good condition and was being cared for at the field hospital. The parents were seen smiling and laughing with health care workers after the baby's birth.
Alarm over violence and looting has eased in Haiti as U.S. troops provide security for water and food aid deliveries, and thousands of displaced Haitians have heeded the government's advice to seek shelter outside Port-au-Prince.
Haitian officials have estimated the death toll from the quake could be between 100,000 and 200,000, and said 75,000 bodies had already been buried in mass graves.
So far, feared infectious diseases have not erupted, although many injured faced the immediate threats of tetanus and gangrene, and hospitals were overwhelmed.
For more news video by Current TV visit http://current.com/As a new earthquake shook the devastated Haitian capital Port-au-Prince, rattling... more
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For my birthday, I've decided to give up my time and energy to encourage people to donate to Haitian earthquake relief. I don't have the right skill set to help the people of Haiti directly, but I can use my skills to raise money and awareness for what's happening.
What this means is that for every person that donates, I am donating to them an equal amount of time, sweat and knowledge. So far I will be doing everything from jewelry photography to recording a wedding video.
Overall, the response has been phenomenal, however the amount of need is far higher. I started out with a goal of $1,000 and surpassed it in hours. My goal now is $10,000 and I am 3/4 of the way there.
I'm hoping everyone at Current can help me spread my message to people they know and inspire people to contribute.
You can go to my website http://billysbirthday.tumblr.com to read about progress and learn more about my mission.For my birthday, I've decided to give up my time and energy to encourage people... more
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Here's an interesting and poignant article from a former aid worker who spent time in Haiti. This is a dose of reality and reason for all those armchair planners busy criticizing the relief efforts to Haiti while planning much better strategies in their minds than anyone down there who actually is planning the relief efforts.
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It isn’t uncommon, in the wake of a disaster, for aid to take a while to reach those who need it. There is always footage of some angry resident complaining that promised aid has not arrived. However in the prevailing culture of Port-au-Prince, dissatisfaction of this kind swiftly leads to violence. This is a problem that needs fixing fast, or there will be a lot of very cross Haitians, who have over the years repeatedly demonstrated a penchant for angry mobs and violent protest.
In the case of Haiti, there’s every reason to think that aid delivery is going to be slow, and far slower than appears acceptable in the face of a disaster of this magnitude. It will be easy to point the finger at governments, charities and the UN for not overcoming obstacles in their way and doing what they’re supposed to do best. However, let’s take a moment and look at why aid has been- and will continue to be- slow reaching Haiti’s victims.
Airports- Port-au-Prince has one. It’s small for an international airport. I’ve flown into it, and there’s not much there. I understand it actually has capacity for nine or ten planes at a time. Planes take time to land, to offload, and to take off again. There’s things like refueling, paperwork and clearances to consider. Different types of planes require different types of equipment to offload them, and different amounts of time.
The airport was damaged in the earthquake and is not yet back up to full capacity. Planes need fuel, but there’s very little available in Port-au-Prince, and it’s heavy and expensive to fly in. Airport staff are among the victims, and many will be digging their families out of rubble. The US army is reputed to be stepping in to manage the airport. A strict system to allow planes in and out of the airport will be established, placing an absolute ceiling on the physical volume of aid that can come in. In other words, it doesn’t matter how organized, prepared or resourced you are: there’s only one airport, and it can only process so much cargo a day.
Seaports- The main seaport in Port-au-Prince was damaged in the quake. The access road from the port to the city is ostensibly buckled five feet into the air. Aid ships have already been turned away from the dock. Offloading cargo ships at a modern dock isn’t a matter of pitching sacks over the side- there are 20- and 40-foot steel containers to contend with which must be craned or trucked off decks. If the heavy lifting gear is damaged, you can have all the aid supplies in the world- you can’t offload it. Until the port is functioning again, there will be serious restrictions on how aid can get through.
Roads- As of today the roads into Port-au-Prince from neighbouring provinces were largely accessible. However roads inside Port-au-Prince remained blocked by debris and by people too scared or unable to return home. Some roads are accessible by four-wheel drive. Heavy trucks- those not damaged in the quake- will struggle to get through the debris. There will be a limited number of transport vehicles (and drivers to run them) available, and a limited number of access roads to drive on until they are cleared. So even if supplies make it to key points of entry, distributing them within the city will be a slow process, again limited by available logistical resources.
Neighbours- The Dominican Republic borders Haiti, was unaffected by the earthquake, and has seaports and an international airport. It is already established as an alternative logistics hub for the relief effort. Roads between the two countries aren’t great and there are reputed to be some safety issues in driving them. Again the limitations on (and inflated cost of) transportation vehicles- trucks and helicopters- from the DR to Haiti will be the main limiting factor.
Communications- Landline, cell-phone and internet communications (not to mention power) are all down at the moment in Port-au-Prince, so communicating with different parts of the city to identify access routes, populations, resources and alternative solutions is difficult. Communicating needs to the outside world is also difficult. Problem-solving, especially where multiple stakeholders are involved, such as trucking companies, government bodies or partner NGOs, is complex and frustrating when telecommunications are not functioning.
Staff- Many if not most of the UN and international agency staff- national and expatriate- in Port-au-Prince at the time of the earthquake have been affected. Some have been killed. Many have lost homes, or loved ones, or both. Many will be unable to assist in relief operations. Key roles lie unfilled. The same is true of transportation companies, service providers, and government departments overseeing infrastructure and logistics. New staff are flying in to fill some of these gaps, but they are less familiar with the Haitian context and will not make decisions as smoothly or as quickly as their local counterparts may have.
Solutions- All of this not to say that the operation is hopeless, or nothing can be done. The response community as a whole and as individuals are aware of these challenges, and are tackling them in a myriad of different ways, so that hopefully, over the coming days, solutions will be found. Access roads can be cleared, staff brought up to speed, communication systems replaced and streamlined systems put in place. However the reality is, this will still take time.
During this time, an equal reality is that people will die. Men, women and children injured in the earthquake will not get the treatment they need. Infants forced to drink unclean water because the pipe network has broken will die from dehydration brought about through diarrhoeal disease. Frail or chronically ill people left shocked and exposed without shelter may pass away.Here's an interesting and poignant article from a former aid worker who spent... more
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A 12-year-old girl and her seven-year-old brother, plucked from Haiti's rubble a week after the country's devastating earthquake, were treated at an Israeli field hospital in Port-au-Prince.
Wrapped in emergency blankets, Satina Joacoin and her brother, Moses, arrived in an ambulance and were taken inside the field hospital for treatment for trauma and crush syndrome. They had no visible signs of major injuries. Doctors are monitoring them constantly for fear of internal injuries, although nothing is pointing to that at the moment.
Rescue workers who brought the children to the hospital told doctors they had found them trapped but with nothing putting pressure on their bodies.
They were found in a large building in Port-au-Prince by a search and rescue team from New York. Many bodies have been found at the same location.
Haitian officials say the death toll from the quake was likely to be between 100,000 and 200,000, and that 75,000 bodies had already been buried in mass graves.
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German and Polish rescue teams helped with search efforts in earthquake-devastated Haiti.
Medical care, handling of corpses, shelter, water, food and sanitation remain the priorities for the international operations, U.N. relief officials said a week after the magnitude 7.0 earthquake rocked Haiti.
Sabine Poluzyn, a European rescue worker, said rescue teams had to take the necessary risks and try to see beneath the rubble for themselves.
While military escorts are still needed to deliver relief supplies, the United Nations said security problems were mainly in areas considered "high risk" before the January 12 quake. Some 4,000 criminals escaped from damaged prisons soon after the quake hit.
U.S. Black Hawk helicopters swooped down on the grounds of Haiti's wrecked presidential palace on Tuesday, deploying troops and supplies and immediately attracting crowds of survivors who clamoured for handouts of food.
The World Food Program, which has fed 200,000 quake victims, aims to move the equivalent of 10 million ready-to-eat meals in the next week, the U.N. said. An additional 130,000 have been fed by other relief groups.
Haitian officials say the death toll from the quake was likely to be between 100,000 and 200,000, and that 75,000 bodies had already been buried in mass graves.
Some 90 people have been pulled from the rubble by the 52 rescue teams from around the world, and untold numbers of others by Haitians digging through collapsed buildings. Racing against time, they hoped for a repeat miracle like that of an elderly woman pulled out from the rubble around the National Cathedral.
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West of the rubble and devastation that has become Port-au-Prince, sits Leogane, another Haitian city flattened by last week's earthquake.
In Leogane, considered the quakes epicenter, similar scenes of debris and despair greeted aid workers who began trickling into the area over the weekend.
Local residents wound their way through the remains of wood and concrete from fallen homes and stores that littered the streets.
Others nailed together makeshift coffins, preparing to bury the unknown number of dead from this city.
On the side of a road, young men covered their noses against the stench of death as they shoveled dirt onto bodies.
Meanwhile, families left homeless by the quake huddled under tents amid the rubble of their houses. Injured residents lay out in the open on blankets and mattresses, receiving often amateur treatment from friends and relatives.
Rescue teams have begun working in the ravaged city, but have not found many survivors in the rubble.
Prior to the quake, Leogane's population consisted of up to 100,000 people.
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A new earthquake shook the devastated Haitian capital, creating panic among survivors of last week's devastating quake camped out in the streets but apparently causing no new destruction.
The powerful 6.1 magnitude aftershock at daybreak sent shrieking Haitians running away from buildings and walls in the shattered city fearing a repeat of the magnitude 7.0 earthquake that killed tens of thousands of people eight days ago.
Hundreds of Haitians ransacked buildings ravaged by last week's quake, searching for any possible supplies as they awaited more relief. Police arrived to disperse crowds, however, no shots were fired during the melee.
The U.S. Geological Survey said Wednesday's tremor was centered 35 miles (60 km) west-southwest of Port-au-Prince.
Desperate and hungry residents of Port-au-Prince have been sleeping outdoors since the Jan. 12 earthquake because their homes were destroyed, or from fear of aftershocks.
Fears of violence and looting have eased in Haiti as U.S. troops provide security for water and food aid deliveries, and thousands of displaced Haitians have heeded the government's advice to seek shelter outside Port-au-Prince.
While military escorts are needed to deliver relief, the United Nations said security problems were mainly in areas considered "high risk" before the disaster. Some 4,000 criminals escaped from prisons damaged by the earthquake.
Around 12,000 U.S. military personnel are on the ground in Haiti, on ships offshore or en route, including the USNS Comfort hospital ship, which was to arrive in the area on Wednesday, providing essential capacity for complex surgeries.
Haitian officials say the death toll from the quake was likely to be between 100,000 and 200,000, and that 75,000 bodies had already been buried in mass graves.
Some 90 people have been pulled alive from the rubble by 52 rescue teams from around the world and untold numbers of others by Haitians digging through collapsed buildings. Racing against time, they hope for a repeat miracle like that of an elderly woman pulled on Tuesday from rubble around National Cathedral.
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Haitians took matters into their own hands to remove bodies still left on city streets one week after a devastating earthquake killed up to 200,000 people.
In the city's downtown area, locals set fire to a decomposing body to get rid of human remains which have been left to rot amid a sputtering recovery effort.
While a huge international relief operation to help earthquake survivors tried to gain momentum, the ravages from the earthquake have left gaping wounds across the city - and desperation is giving way to a simmering anger over the slow pace of assistance.
As the United States and United Nations deploy more troops to secure the relief operation, hundreds of people have been swarming over damaged stores in downtown Port-au-Prince, seizing goods.
Haitian President Rene Preval said U.S. troops will help U.N. peacekeepers keep order on Haiti's streets, where overstretched U.N. and Haitian forces have been unable to provide full security.
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As the United Nations Security Council voted to increase its peacekeeping presence in the earthquake ravaged nation of Haiti, its existing force continued their food distribution, delivering rations to sometimes unruly crowds desperate for aid.
Jordanian soldiers doled out boxes of food from the World Food Programme (WFP), while struggling to reign in the multitudes in Cite Soleil, one of the Haitian capital's poorest neighborhoods.
Since the earthquake struck, more than 270,000 ready-to-eat food rations have been distributed by WFP and the United States military. With immediate food needs so great, WFP appealed to military leaders worldwide to donate 100 million ready-to-eat meals to sustain this vital lifeline.
Haiti's earthquake has leveled buildings, including homes, schools and hospitals, damaged roads and other vital infrastructure, and left one third of the country's nine million people in need of food, water, shelter, medical assistance and other urgent aid.
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Troops and planeloads of food and medicine streamed into Haiti to aid a traumatized nation still rattled by aftershocks from the catastrophic earthquake that flattened homes and government buildings and buried countless people.
The Haitian Red Cross said it believed 45,000 to 50,000 people had died and 3 million more -- one third of Haiti's population -- were hurt or left homeless by the major 7.0 magnitude quake that hit its impoverished capital on Tuesday.
Planes full of supplies arrived at the Port-au-Prince airport faster than ground crews could unload them and aviation authorities restricted non-military flights from U.S. airspace for fear planes would run out of fuel while waiting to land.
Many hospitals were too battered to use, and doctors struggled to treat crushed limbs, head wounds and broken bones at makeshift facilities where medical supplies were scarce.
Several nations sent mobile hospitals, surgeons and even psychologists to help traumatized Haitians. The U.S. Navy hospital ship Comfort was on the way back to Haiti, where it delivered medical care after a spate of storms caused massive flooding and mudslides in 2008.
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Thousands of people made homeless in Haiti's massive earthquake woke up after a third night in makeshift tents with their despair turning to anger.
Planes full of supplies and search and rescue equipment continued to arrive at Port-au-Prince airport faster than ground crews could unload them, jamming the limited ramp space and forcing arriving aircraft to circle for up to two hours before landing.
Bodies lay all around the hilly city following Haiti's catastrophic quake, which flattened buildings and killed tens of thousands, leaving countless others homeless. People covered their noses with cloth to block the stench of death.
The Haitian Red Cross said it believed 45,000 to 50,000 people had died and 3 million more -- one third of Haiti's population -- were hurt or left homeless by the quake.
Doctors in Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, were ill-equipped to treat the injured. Relief workers warned that many more people will die if the injured, many with broken bones and serious loss of blood, do not get first aid in the next day or so.
Many hospitals were too battered to use, and doctors struggled to treat crushed limbs, head wounds and broken bones at makeshift facilities where medical supplies were scarce.
Under a U.N. appeal, the World Food Program will seek to provide life-saving food rations to 2 million destitute people for the next month. A longer-term operation is planned up to July 15.
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