Haiti: UN-Backed Quake Relief Operations Expand Beyond Eevastated Capital

by Gary Kopycinski on January 21, 2010

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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, UN peacekeepers from Sri Lanka are providing security while food is being distributed for some of the nearly 200,000 residents of the town, 18 miles…