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Haitian Relief: Support Earthquake Recovery Efforts in Haiti
Haiti Chief Says Thousands May Be Dead
By SIMON ROMERO and MARC LACEY
"The earthquake struck just before 5 p.m. about 10 miles southwest of Port-au-Prince, the United States Geological Survey said. Many aftershocks followed and more were expected, said David Wald, a Geological Survey seismologist.
Haiti sits on a large fault that has caused catastrophic quakes in the past, but this one was described as among the most powerful to hit the region. With many poor residents living in tin-roof shacks that sit precariously on steep ravines and with much of the construction in Port-au-Prince and elsewhere in the country of questionable quality, the expectation was that the quake caused major damage to buildings and significant loss of life.
The country’s president, René Préval, told the Miami Herald that thousands had probably been killed. The devastation, he said, was “unimaginable.”
“Parliament has collapsed,” Mr. Preval was quoted as saying. “The tax office has collapsed. Schools have collapsed. Hospitals have collapsed. There are a lot of schools that have a lot of dead people in them.” Governments and aid organizations around the world pledged their support and were racing to organize assistance to Haiti, which now faces what the United Nations secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, called a “humanitarian emergency.”
Louise Ivers, the clinical director of the aid group Partners in Health, said in an e-mail to her colleagues: “Port-au-Prince is devastated, lot of deaths. SOS. SOS . . . Temporary field hospital by us at UNDP needs supplies, pain meds, bandages. Please help us.”New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/14/world/americas/14haiti.html?pagewanted=1&hp
To Support Haitian Relief Efforts, Donate to the Below Trusted GGP Partners working on the ground in Haiti:
Partners in Helath, www.pih.org
"With our hospitals and our highly trained medical staff in place in Haiti, Partners In Health is already mobilizing resources and preparing plans to bring medical assistance and supplies to areas that have been hardest hit."
American Jewish World Service, www.ajws.org
"[Donations] enable AJWS's network of grantees in Haiti to meet the urgent needs of the population based on real-time, on-the-ground assessments."
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