HAITI–(ENEWSPF)–February 3, 2010. Day 1, Wednesday, January 13: Just a Few Hours to Decide“I hear about the disaster on Wednesday morning, and the first phone call come through at the hospital a few hours later. MSF wants to know if I can leave for Haiti right away. I’ve already been[Read More…]

WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–February 03, 2010.  As medical teams in Haiti continue to evaluate and treat the victims of the devastating earthquake, the American Red Cross is coordinating shipments of blood and blood products to Haiti at the request of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO). Today, the American Red Cross is coordinating[Read More…]

NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–3 February 2010 – The United Nations Women’s Fund (UNIFEM) has announced that the outgoing Chilean President will work closely with the agency to speak out on behalf of Haitian women suffering from the massive earthquake that devastated the Caribbean country on 12 January. President Michelle Bachelet is set[Read More…]

NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–3 February 2010 – Three weeks after the earthquake in Haiti, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the United Nations’ oldest agency, is still trying to re-establish reliable telephone and internet connections in the country, but also has long-term plans to help build state-of-the-art telecommunication networks there. “We are working[Read More…]

NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–3 February 2010 – The United Nations Populations Fund (UNFPA) is providing medical kits to thousands of expectant mothers in Haiti in case they cannot get medical attention in time and give birth at home or on the streets where they are living after last month’s earthquake. A “clean[Read More…]

NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–3 February 2010 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today asked former United States President Bill Clinton, already deeply involved in Haiti before last month’s devastating earthquake as the United Nations Special Envoy to the country, to assume a leadership role in coordinating international aid efforts, from emergency response to reconstruction,[Read More…]

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti–(ENEWSPF)–3 February 2010 – A cacophony of songs and voices drifts from the tented camp as thousands of handheld radios transmit entertainment and, more important, information. A UNICEF public service announcement on nutrition blares out of several radios tuned into Port-au-Prince’s Radio One. The station is just one of[Read More…]

BELGIUM–(ENEWSPF)–February 3, 2010.  The Multinational Strategic Airlift Capability (SAC) has conducted its third humanitarian relief mission to Haiti on 2 February 2010, flown by SAC’s operational arm, the Heavy Airlift Wing based in Pápa Air Base in Hungary. The flight delivered supplies to Haiti in response to a massive earthquake[Read More…]