LONDON–(ENEWSPF)–4 March 2010.  Oxfam’s assessment of the damage of Saturday’s earthquake to the south of Chile is now well underway. The aid agency’s team of logisticians and water engineers split in two and headed for two locations – Constitución and Concepción. Both teams are assessing the damage by talking to[Read More…]

NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–4 March 2010 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will travel to Chile later today to express his solidarity with the country’s Government and people in the wake of the recent earthquake and to assess the humanitarian assistance effort. The Government estimates that nearly 800 people were killed and 2 million[Read More…]

Reston, VA–(ENEWSPF)–March 4, 2010.  USGS scientists are helping Haitians lay the groundwork for reconstruction and long-term earthquake monitoring in the wake of the Jan. 12, 2010, magnitude-7 earthquake, by providing geologic research that will assist with the establishment of new building codes in the country. “USGS research will contribute to[Read More…]

NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–March 4, 2010.  Since the creation of the Clinton Foundation Haiti Fund in January, the Fund has raised over $13 million from more than 100,000 individuals for relief, recovery, and reconstruction assistance, and in the month after the disaster has allocated $3 million to a dozen 501(c)3’s on the[Read More…]

HAITI–(ENEWSPF)–03 March 2010.  Seven weeks after the earthquake of January 12 left up to 300,000 people injured, medical needs remain immense in Haiti. “The immediate emergency phase may be over, but the long-term work is just beginning, and it’s no less an emergency,” said MSF Haiti Head of Mission Karline[Read More…]

LEOGANE, Haiti–(ENEWSPF)–March 3, 2010.  More than a month after the devastating earthquake that struck Haiti on January 12, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and CARE have issued a joint alert over a national food crisis. “This is a hidden but pervasive crisis that has already touched all corners of the[Read More…]

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti–(ENEWSPF)–3 March 2010 – Jeanne (not her real name) sat on a mattress in her tent in a makeshift settlement for displaced people that has sprung up in Port-au-Prince, the Haitian capital. As the afternoon sun burned through the plastic walls of the tent, she told her story. Jeanne[Read More…]

CHILE–(ENEWSPF)–3 March 2010 – The situation in the main areas of Chile affected by the recent earthquake is still critical, the United Nations relief wing reported today, noting that access to food and the restoration of electricity and drinking water are still the top priorities. According to the Office for[Read More…]

Santiago, Chile–(ENEWSPF)–March 2, 2010. SECRETARY CLINTON: Well, thank you very much. I just had the privilege and opportunity of a long conversation with President-elect Pinera about the immediate crisis of the earthquake and about a number of important issues that we will be working on together upon his becoming president[Read More…]

Santiago, Chile–(ENEWSPF)–March 2, 2010. PRESIDENT BACHELET: (Via interpreter) Good morning, everyone. I would like to, first and foremost, thank the international solidarity of the many neighboring and friend countries, and very particularly I’d like to thank the solidarity of the United States, of President Obama, and of Secretary Clinton. She[Read More…]