GREAT BRITAIN–(ENEWSPF)–9 April 2010.  International aid agencies Oxfam, World Vision and CARE urge the Haitian government to ensure new camps are ready to receive earthquake survivors before more evacuations take place. The call comes as agencies rush to prepare a new site in time for people who must be relocated[Read More…]

NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–9 April 2010 – Relief organizations working with United Nations peacekeepers in Haiti are preparing to relocate some 7,500 earthquake survivors at risk of potential flooding in a camp above Port-au-Prince, the capital. People living in dangerous areas at the Petionville Club settlement were presented with voluntary relocation options[Read More…]

NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–8 April 2010 – The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and Haitian officials have developed a special syllabus for 600,000 children that takes into account the trauma they experienced in the 12 January earthquake and the class time lost during the three months before some schools[Read More…]

NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–April 7, 2010.  The Clinton Foundation Haiti Fund was created in January 2010. To date, the Fund has raised over $14 million from more than 100,000 individuals for relief, recovery, and reconstruction assistance. In the month after the disaster, the Fund allocated $3 million to about a dozen 501(c)(3)[Read More…]

NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–6 April 2010 – Nearly three months after the catastrophic earthquake which devastated Haiti, its Government has issued a call, backed by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), for the children of the Caribbean nation to go back to school. The appeal for children to resume their education in[Read More…]

MIAMI–(ENEWSPF)–05 Apr 2010 – The International Rescue Committee will be providing help, hope and a new home for Nadine Devilme, Junior Alexis and their infant daughter Jenny, after the family, separated during the devastating January 12 earthquake in Haiti, reunites today in Miami. The baby girl was two months old[Read More…]

PORT-AU-PRINCE–(ENEWSPF)–5 April 2010 – Less than three months after a devastating earthquake that shook the lives of many children in the Haitian capital Port au Prince, will begin their return to school today. The call to return to classes, led by the Haitian Ministry of Education and backed by UNICEF[Read More…]

WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–April 1, 2010.  The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) pledged to extend the emergency phase of its work in Haiti for up to twelve months and committed more than $300 million towards Haiti’s long-term recovery and reconstruction following the devastating earthquake of January 12. The[Read More…]

GENEVA–(ENEWSPF)–April 1, 2010.  A critical component of the response to the earthquake in Haiti, including its health consequences, has been the Haitian people themselves. The following story describes different types of services that have been set up by and for the Haitian people. Mobile clinics and temporary clinics have been[Read More…]

NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–March 31, 2010. SECRETARY CLINTON: Thank you very much, Secretary General, and thank you for your leadership and your personal commitment to this international endeavor. President Preval, to you and the members of your government, we thank you for the extraordinary work that you have done leading up to[Read More…]