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Source: Reuters * Ban Ki-moon to meet with Haiti's leaders * Will visit camp for displaced earthquake victims By Megan Davies UNITED NATIONS, March 12 (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will visit ...

Date: 11 Mar 2010
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Source: Reuters * Floods highlight vulnerability of earthquake survivors * Aid groups racing to improve shelter in survivors' camps By Joseph Guyler Delva PORT-AU-PRINCE, March 1 ( ...

Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) International PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti--There is no time like the night to be reminded that being an earthquake survivor in a camp for displaced Haitians is difficult. "When you have darkness, it's sad," says ...

Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) International SILVER SPRING, Md.--As the rainy season in Haiti looms closer, more than 1 million displaced Haitians living in Port-au-Prince and in surrounding areas will face increased hardships unless they have ...

Paul Neal, Oxfam team leader of the shelter program in Haiti, talks about how young people are being given cash for work to put together shelter materials for those affected by the 12 January

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UN Flash Appeal for Haiti Nearly 50 Percent Funded
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It was the largest-ever humanitarian appeal launched in the wake of a natural disaster. The first appeal of 577 million dollars, which was issued just days ...

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Aid Groups Troubled By Slowdown In Haiti Giving
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The Red Cross and most other aid groups in Haiti are now turning from emergency disaster response to the next great need: transitional housing. ...

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John Kisimir is a World Vision relief communications expert from Kenya. Currently in Haiti, he has responded to various emergencies in Africa including Darfur, Somalia and Liberia. He is based in Los Angeles, United States.

I am on the trail, following thousands of people on the run from the tribulations of the devastating earthquake in Part-au-Prince, Haiti. An estimated 40,000 of them have fled to La Gonave, an island to the west of the capital city, Port-au-Prince.

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PORT-AU-PRINCE Friday, February 12, 2010 (IRIN) - Some 300,000 people suffered physical injury during Haiti’s devastating earthquake, but as a day of national mourning was marked exactly one month later, the full extent of the hidden, psychological damage is still unclear in a country with the most rudimentary of mental health infrastructures.

JOHANNESBURG Friday, February 12, 2010 (IRIN) - Not too far in the future - say, about 15 years, by which time the impact of climate change might have escalated tenfold - the day could come when the humanitarian community would have to provide water and food to millions of people in drought-affected Africa, tend to a few hundred thousand after a cyclone in Asia, and deal with another "Haiti" - all at the same time.

DAKAR Tuesday, February 09, 2010 (IRIN) - Donors have earmarked just 6 percent of the funds sought for post-earthquake nutritional assistance to women and children in Haiti, according to the UN.

JACMEL Friday, January 29, 2010 (IRIN) - Crowds in Haiti stampede out of buildings at the hint of a tremor; mothers refuse to breastfeed for fear of passing on their depression; people complain of headaches and insomnia. Mental health specialists say that until routines are in place and the basic needs of food, water and shelter are there, fear can obstruct personal recovery.

JACMEL Friday, January 29, 2010 (IRIN) - The colonial buildings that attracted tourists to the seaside town of Jacmel, 80km southeast of the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, were among the first to collapse on 12 January.

Source: ITHACAWFP Haiti - IDP camps location master list provided by Camp Coordination and Camp Management ...

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