HAITI–(ENEWSPF)–January 21, 2010. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) emergency physician Sebastian Spencer was working at Choscal hospital in Cite Soleil, Port-au-Prince, on January 20 when the area sustained a strong aftershock—one week after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake destroyed much of the capital. Dr. Spencer had just finished his second consecutive,[Read More…]

HAITI–(ENEWSPF)–January 21, 2010. Isabelle Jeanson has worked in communications with Doctors WIthout Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) since 2003.  She has spent time with MSF missions in Colombia, Russia, Nigeria, and Papua New Guinea, and she served as an emergency press officer in Sri Lanka following the 2004 tsunami.  She joined[Read More…]

WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–Jan. 21, 2010 – Roughly 20,000 U.S. troops will be supporting relief efforts in Haiti by Jan. 24, military officials said, adding to the 13,000-strong American force currently there. Comprising the force will be the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit, the 82nd Airborne Division’s 2nd Brigade and thousands of other troops[Read More…]

WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–January 21, 2010.  Companies large and small, representing industries across the United States, have taken action to support their neighbors in Haiti by donating millions of dollars to the American Red Cross and by encouraging their customers and employees to follow suit. This support is making it into the hands[Read More…]

WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–January 21, 2010. The World Bank fully supports debt relief for Haiti. In June 2009, the World Bank, along with the IMF and other donors, granted Haiti $1.2 billion in debt relief through the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries initiative and the Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative. Since 2005, the World Bank’s[Read More…]

NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–21 January 2010 – As rescue operations continue after last week’s devastating earthquake in Haiti, simultaneous efforts are needed to support agriculture in the poor Caribbean country as the spring planting season approaches, the head of the United Nations agriculture agency said today. The priority must be to provide[Read More…]

NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–21 January 2010 – United Nations-supported relief efforts to reach the countless victims of Haiti’s devastating earthquake are expanding to areas away from Port-au-Prince, the capital, to smaller towns and communities as aid agencies struggle to ramp up their operations to meet the enormity of the task. In Léogâne,[Read More…]

NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–21 January 2010 – The earthquake in Haiti has wiped out the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of people and crippled essential services for some 3 million Haitians from all walks of life – ranging from the desperately poor to middle-class and the affluent. In the disaster’s aftermath, UNICEF[Read More…]

NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–21 January 2010 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon lauded the faith and resilience of the Haitian people in the wake of last week’s catastrophic earthquake, saying he was confident that, with the support of the international community, they will overcome this tragedy. “Haitians have proven their resilience many times. They[Read More…]

ENGLAND–(ENEWSPF)–January 21, 2010.  Fifty tons of aid equipment, which will help thousands of people in Haiti devastated by last week’s earthquake, will be packed up at Oxfam’s warehouse today, ready to be flown out tomorrow (Friday). The aid – including tools, wheelbarrows, latrine slabs and water tanks – will be[Read More…]