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Les dije que no tuvieran miedo y que era una oportunidad para expresar la solidaridad y para que las personas se ayudaran unas a otras&lt;/i&gt;”. “&lt;i&gt;Creo que nuestra caridad y la manera de vivir esta crisis&lt;/i&gt; –afirma el presidente de Cáritas Haitiana&amp;#8212; &lt;i&gt;nos ayudará a potenciar nuestra humanidad. Nos ayudará a ser más generosos, abiertos y disponibles unos con otros, porque se han destruido las formas simbólicas de nuestro vivir juntos. &lt;/i&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Monseñor Dumas expresa también su convicción de que “&lt;i&gt;se nos ha dado la oportunidad de reconstruir juntos nuestro país de otra manera, con el fin de comprender los lazos que nos unen.&lt;/i&gt;”. “&lt;i&gt;De momento, todo gira alrededor de la emergencia, pero llegará el día de la reconstrucción. Y eso no significa reconstruir las cosas como estaban antes, porque tendremos la ocasión de construir un Haití mejor, en el que la persona se anteponga a todo lo demás&lt;/i&gt;”, concluye su mensaje.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;b&gt;Despliegue de la red Cáritas en Haití&lt;/b&gt;A fecha de hoy, la red internacional de Cáritas ha desplegado en Haití un total de 24 expertos en emergencias procedentes de diversas Cáritas de todo el mundo, desde México y Sudáfrica, a Estados Unidos, Suiza, Holanda, Francia o Alemania. Cáritas Española también se ha sumado a esta presencia en el terreno, con la llegada a la República Dominicana de &lt;b&gt;Martín Lago&lt;/b&gt;, técnico del Área de Cooperación Internacional, con la misión de colaborar con la Cáritas Dominicana en el operativo logístico de respuesta a la emergencia de Haití que se está llevando a cabo desde el país vecino.Hasta el momento, la red Cáritas en Haití continúa ejecutando su plan de distribución de ayuda de emergencia a los damnificados a través de  27 puntos de distribución en Puerto Príncipe y Jacmel. Estas dos ciudades son las que han sufrido el mayor impacto del terremoto. De hecho, según datos remitidos el pasado 18 de enero desde el terreno por los expertos de Cáritas Internationalis, se estima que al menos el 75 por ciento de la capital y de su área metropolitana está gravemente dañado, mientras que la destrucción en Jacmel alcanza un nivel del 60 por ciento.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Asimismo, se constata un importante desplazamiento interno de población desde Puerto Príncipe hacia la zona de Sant Marc, mientras que el flujo de damnificados a través de la frontera con la república Dominicana no supone, por el momento, un movimiento importante.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;  &lt;b&gt;Masiva respuesta ciudadana de solidaridad a Cáritas Española&lt;/b&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Cáritas Española mantiene un contacto permanente y fluido tanto con la Cáritas Haitiana como la red Cáritas Internationalis para coordinar día a día los términos de respuesta a la emergencia. Asimismo, se está registrando una masiva respuesta de solidaridad ciudadana al llamamiento de ayuda a Haití lanzado por Cáritas en las horas inmediatamente posteriores al terremoto. Cuando está punto de cumplirse una semana de la catástrofe, los fondos aportados por los donantes españoles a las víctimas de Haití a través de la Confederación Cáritas Española superan ya los 2 millones de euros.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;El Obispo de Barbastro-Monzón y responsable de Cáritas Española de la Conferencia Episcopal Española destaca&lt;/b&gt; que &lt;i&gt;“desde el primer momento ofrecimos a nuestros hermanos de Haití nuestro apoyo en todo lo que necesitasen y se hizo un primer envío de 175.000&amp;#160;€ con el fin de que se pudiesen poner a disposición los medios más urgentes. Desde ese momento la red Cáritas está llevando a cabo un operativo sin precedentes para afrontar la primera fase de la emergencia. Gracias al esfuerzo logístico del personal de Cáritas, dentro y fuera del país caribeño, ha sido posible trasladar con éxito hasta Puerto Príncipe un convoy de 20 camiones con una cargamento de 200.00 mantas, 15.000 tiendas de campaña y otros lotes de productos de primera necesidad, como agua potable, tabletas purificadoras de agua y kits higiénicos. Este envío se suma al de otros 80 contenedores con alimentos que han llegado a la isla por vía marítima y que se verán completados con otras 34 toneladas de ayuda que llegaron el pasado 18 de enero a Haití.”&lt;/i&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  					&lt;/div&gt;  	   &lt;a name="anc_encuestas"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  		&lt;div class="compartir clearfix fino"&gt;  		  &lt;p&gt;Compartir:&lt;/p&gt;   			    &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://del.icio.us/post?v=4&amp;amp;noui&amp;amp;jump=close&amp;amp;url=http://www.cope.es/local/25-01-10--trabajo-caritas-haiti-129207-2&amp;amp;title=El%20trabajo%20de%20C%C3%A1ritas%20en%20Hait%C3%AD" class="delicious" target="_blank"&gt;del.icio.us&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;  				    &lt;li style="display: none;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&amp;amp;url=http://www.cope.es/local/25-01-10--trabajo-caritas-haiti-129207-2&amp;amp;title=El%20trabajo%20de%20C%C3%A1ritas%20en%20Hait%C3%AD" class="digg" target="_blank"&gt;digg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;  						&lt;li&gt;facebook  						&lt;a class="digg" target="_blank"&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt;&amp;#8212;&amp;gt;  						&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http://www.cope.es/local/25-01-10--trabajo-caritas-haiti-129207-2" class="digg" style="background-image: ;" target="_blank"&gt;facebook&lt;/a&gt;					  						&lt;/li&gt;  				    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.technorati.com/search/http://www.cope.es/local/25-01-10--trabajo-caritas-haiti-129207-2" class="technorati" target="_blank"&gt;technorati&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;  				    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com/myresults/bookmarklet?u=http://www.cope.es/local/25-01-10--trabajo-caritas-haiti-129207-2&amp;amp;title=El%20trabajo%20de%20C%C3%A1ritas%20en%20Hait%C3%AD" class="comYahoo" target="_blank"&gt;yahoo!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;  				    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://meneame.net/submit.php?url=http://www.cope.es/local/25-01-10--trabajo-caritas-haiti-129207-2&amp;amp;ei=UTF" class="meneame" target="_blank"&gt;menéame&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;  			    &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div class="votar"&gt;  				&lt;input type="hidden" value="0"&gt;&lt;p&gt;Votar&lt;/p&gt;  												  								&lt;img src="http://www.cope.es/img/lomejor_stars_vacio.gif" height="15" width="16"/&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.cope.es/img/lomejor_stars_vacio.gif" height="15" width="16"/&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.cope.es/img/lomejor_stars_vacio.gif" height="15" width="16"/&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.cope.es/img/lomejor_stars_vacio.gif" height="15" width="16"/&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.cope.es/img/lomejor_stars_vacio.gif" height="15" width="16"/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="posterous_quote_citation"&gt;via &lt;a href="http://www.cope.es/caceres/25-01-10--trabajo-caritas-haiti-129207-2"&gt;cope.es&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;   &lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://mchealth.tumblr.com/post/352828700</link><guid>http://mchealth.tumblr.com/post/352828700</guid><pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 12:26:59 -0500</pubDate><category>caritas</category><category>haiti</category></item><item><title>Social Media Revolutionises Disaster Response for Haiti</title><description>&lt;div class="posterous_autopost"&gt;&lt;div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"&gt; By &lt;a href="http://www.tresviva.com/2010/01/social-media-revolutionises-disaster.html#"&gt;Kate Ausburn&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear: both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;On Tuesday January 12th, a magnitude 7.3 earthquake devastated the Caribbean nation of Haiti. The earthquake has destroyed the nations capital of Port-au-Prince including the Parliament building, the United Nations national headquarters, the hospital, the prison and many homes and businesses. Tens of thousands are dead and millions displaced in an event that United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has described as the worst humanitarian crisis in decades.&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ifrc/4279434498/" target="_new"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2743/4279434498_fd4e62e959.jpg" border="0" height="335" width="500"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Photo by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ifrc/" target="_new"&gt;IFRC&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;p&gt;The United Nations, who lost 46 staff members in the earthquake and have hundreds more still missing, are coordinating emergency relief efforts in Haiti. Due to proximity, the United States have been able to offer immediate assistance on the ground in Haiti, having taken charge of the Port-au-Prince airport where a large proportion of foreign aid is currently being received.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Representatives from many non-government organisations are also in the country assisting with distribution of water and food to displaced Haitians and with hospitals overwhelmed, &lt;a href="http://www.msf.org" target="_new"&gt;Medecins Sans Frontieres&lt;/a&gt; are assisting with medical care in makeshift hospitals run out of tents.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Role of Social Media&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br/&gt;The use of social media platforms including &lt;a href="http://www.twitter.com/" target="_new"&gt;Twitter&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/" target="_new"&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt; in the aftermath of the devastating earthquake has meant that an increasing level of coverage has reached more people in less time than that achieved through traditional media outlets. Social media has proved its value as a tool that can not only be used to communicate information but also to increase awareness and instigate a global call to action.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4045/4287344839_f7d6408609_o.png" border="0" height="210" width="500"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Photo by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/treslola/" target="_new"&gt;treslola&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/center&gt;&lt;p&gt;Less than a week after the catastrophic event, donations of $US22mn had been pledged through the &lt;a href="http://www.redcross.org/en/" target="_new"&gt;Red Cross&lt;/a&gt; text message campaign. Text message campaigns enable individuals to easily and impulsively donate while &lt;a href="http://www.twitter.com/" target="_new"&gt;Twitter&lt;/a&gt; allows for promotion of the campaign to spread and reach a large global audience. Spokesperson for the American &lt;a href="http://www.redcross.org/en/" target="_new"&gt;Red Cross&lt;/a&gt;, Gloria Huang, has said &amp;#8220;&amp;#8230;twitter has played an extremely significant part&amp;#8221;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Social media platforms such as a &lt;a href="http://www.twitter.com/" target="_new"&gt;Twitter&lt;/a&gt; have been able to bridge the geographical and even causal distance that individuals may once have felt from such disasters. The response to the social media promoted campaigns for relief for Haiti have proven that solidarity with those in the midst of tragedy can be achieved, all that is needed is a simple method by which to become aware of unfolding devastation and similarly simple way to act on that awareness.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ifrc/4278689245/" target="_new"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2718/4278689245_e0e775dd5a.jpg" border="0" height="335" width="500"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Photo by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ifrc/" target="_new"&gt;IFRC&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;What You Can Do&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br/&gt;There is much to be done in the rebuilding of the nations capital and supporting its displaced population in the interim. Out of this crisis comes the opportunity to not only restore but improve infrastructure in Haiti. A conference, to be held in Montreal on January 25, has been called to discuss the long-term plan for rebuilding Haiti.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;While millions of dollars have been donated, continuing support will be needed over the upcoming months and years. You can assist by pledging a donation to any of the following campaigns:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul type="square"&gt;&lt;li&gt; &lt;b&gt;United Kingdom:&lt;/b&gt; Donate 5 pounds by texting 70077 or &lt;a href="https://www.donate.bt.com/dec_form_haiti.html" target="_new"&gt;donate online&lt;/a&gt; (via &lt;a href="http://www.dec.org.uk/" target="_new"&gt;Disasters Emergency Committee&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt; &lt;b&gt;United States:&lt;/b&gt; Donate $10 by texting &amp;#8220;Haiti&amp;#8221; to 90999 (via &lt;a href="http://www.redcross.org/en/" target="_new"&gt;Red Cross&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.onedayswages.org/donate/org/haiti-relief-rebuild-fund" target="_new"&gt;Donate 1 Days Wage&lt;/a&gt; to Haiti Relief Rebuild Fund.&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.yele.org/" target="_new"&gt;Donate to Wyclef Jean&amp;#8217;s Yele&lt;/a&gt; or donate $5 by texting &amp;#8220;YELE&amp;#8221; to 501501.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.oxfam.org/haitidonate" target='_new"'&gt;Donate to Oxfam&lt;/a&gt;. 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Credit: Frederic Dupoux/Getty Images" width="168" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"/&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div style="padding-bottom: 10px;"&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Our  biggest concern right now is dealing with the immediate aftermathof the  humanitarian disaster caused by the devastating earthquake. But in our concern  to help those suffering, let’s not forget the long term. &lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.oxfam.org.uk/get_involved/campaign/actions/haiti_drop_the_debt"&gt;Take the action now&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;      &lt;/div&gt;          &lt;p&gt; The world’s attention is focused on Haiti. Leaders are pledging to stand shoulder to shoulder with the people and help them to build a brighter future out of the rubble. The debts that Haiti owes will hamper efforts to rebuild the country and lock them in poverty for years to come.&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt; Leaders are meeting in Montreal on Monday to decide on the amount of aid that they will give. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said that it will work to cancel the debt, and this now needs to happen.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt; Email the head of the IMF Dominique Strauss-Kahn to demand that when leaders meet on Monday, they cancel Haiti’s debts immediately.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why is debt cancellation so important?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt; Haiti still owes hundreds of millions of dollars in debt - a legacy of loans from global financial institutions and donor nations to unelected governments of years past. It is one of the poorest countries in the world and yet the IMF response to the earthquake was to offer a $100 million loan. This loan would increase Haiti’s debt burden at this time of crisis.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="posterous_quote_citation"&gt;via &lt;a href="http://www.oxfam.org.uk/get_involved/campaign/actions/haiti_drop_the_debt"&gt;oxfam.org.uk&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;p&gt;Oxfam join, ONE.org, Avaaz, and others to demand that Haiti&amp;#8217;s debt  be dropped/&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;   &lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://mchealth.tumblr.com/post/346065246</link><guid>http://mchealth.tumblr.com/post/346065246</guid><pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 10:27:44 -0500</pubDate><category>debt</category><category>earthquake</category><category>HelpHaiti</category><category>IMF</category><category>oxfam</category><category>take action</category></item><item><title>Oxfam America Blog  » Blog Archive   » In Haiti, uneasy sleep amid quake fears</title><description>&lt;div class="posterous_autopost"&gt;&lt;div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"&gt; &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;div&gt;  				&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Oxfam’s Coco McCabe is one of several Boston-based colleagues on her way to Haiti to help with the relief effort, where they will join over 200 Oxfam staff already on the ground. Here’s her latest update, dated January 18.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;I suspect tonight might be my last night of sleeping soundly. Aftershocks are continuing to rattle the nerves of people in Port-au-Prince.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;“Be careful,” said Yves Gattereau, a program director for Oxfam Quebec in the Dominican Republic, as we gathered for a debrief in San Juan. “You won’t sleep a good night of sleep. You’ll hear it coming. You won’t know if it’s the big one.”&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div style=""&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.oxfamamerica.org/index.php/2010/01/19/in-haiti-uneasy-sleep-amid-quake-fears/img_1221-waiting-for-water/" rel="attachment wp-att-3544"&gt;&lt;img title="IMG_1221 waiting for water" src="http://blogs.oxfamamerica.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/IMG_1221-waiting-for-water-300x225.jpg" height="225" alt="Oxfam water distrubution in Haiti, January 18, 2010. Photo: Oxfam" width="300"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Oxfam water distrubution in Haiti, January 18, 2010. Photo: Oxfam&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;  &lt;p&gt;And &lt;a href="http://www.oxfamamerica.org/emergencies/earthquake-in-haiti"&gt;after the 7.0 temblor turned much of Port-au-Prince to rubble&lt;/a&gt;, the big one is on the minds of everyone–including Gattereau’s mother.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;After the quake, Gattereau, who had not received word from his parents, went to look for them in their neighborhood near Port-au-Prince and found them sleeping in their car . Though their house and a guest house next door were still standing, neither felt comfortable spending the night inside. They’re not alone.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;“Everybody is sleeping outside their house,” he said.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;When the quake struck, his parents, who live half the year in Montreal and half the year in Haiti, were just about to leave home to visit a friend. Gattereau’s mother was outside, waiting for her husband.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;“She fell down and the ground just opened in friont of her eyes,” he said. The memory of that gaping hole is too strong to bear. Gatterau said his parents have now come to live with him in San Juan while they decide what to do next.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Save lives now by donating to Oxfam’s &lt;a href="https://secure.oxfamamerica.org/site/Donation2?df_id=3560&amp;amp;3560.donation=form1"&gt;Haiti Earthquake Response Fund&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.oxfamamerica.org/emergencies/earthquake-in-haiti" title="Learn more"&gt;Learn more&lt;/a&gt; about how Oxfam is responding&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    				  				&lt;div&gt;  					&lt;div&gt;  						&lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="http://blogs.oxfamamerica.org/index.php/tag/coco-in-haiti/" rel="tag"&gt;Coco in Haiti&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://blogs.oxfamamerica.org/index.php/tag/coco-mccabe/" rel="tag"&gt;Coco McCabe&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://blogs.oxfamamerica.org/index.php/tag/dominican-republic/" rel="tag"&gt;Dominican Republic&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://blogs.oxfamamerica.org/index.php/tag/earthquake/" rel="tag"&gt;earthquake&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://blogs.oxfamamerica.org/index.php/tag/haiti/" rel="tag"&gt;Haiti&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://blogs.oxfamamerica.org/index.php/tag/port-au-prince/" rel="tag"&gt;Port-au-Prince&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt; Posted in &lt;a href="http://blogs.oxfamamerica.org/index.php/category/regions/central-america-mexico-caribbean/" title="View all posts in Central America, Mexico &amp;amp; Caribbean" rel="category tag"&gt;Central America, Mexico &amp;amp; Caribbean&lt;/a&gt;,  &lt;a href="http://blogs.oxfamamerica.org/index.php/category/issues/disasters-conflicts/" title="View all posts in Disasters &amp;amp; conflicts" rel="category tag"&gt;Disasters &amp;amp; conflicts&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  					&lt;/div&gt;  					&lt;div&gt;  						&lt;span&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.oxfamamerica.org/index.php/2010/01/19/in-haiti-uneasy-sleep-amid-quake-fears#" title="ShareThis via email, AIM, social bookmarking and networking sites, etc."&gt;&lt;span&gt;ShareThis&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;  					&lt;/div&gt;  				&lt;/div&gt;  			&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="posterous_quote_citation"&gt;via &lt;a href="http://blogs.oxfamamerica.org/index.php/2010/01/19/in-haiti-uneasy-sleep-amid-quake-fears/"&gt;blogs.oxfamamerica.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;   &lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://mchealth.tumblr.com/post/344625713</link><guid>http://mchealth.tumblr.com/post/344625713</guid><pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 13:52:50 -0500</pubDate><category>aftershock</category><category>coco mccabe</category><category>haiti</category><category>HelpHaiti</category><category>port-au-prince</category><category>united states</category></item><item><title>Helen Hawking: My Story From the Earthquake</title><description>&lt;div class="posterous_autopost"&gt;&lt;div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"&gt; &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;div&gt;  																		&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;January 12&lt;/b&gt;     &lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;It had been an average day in the office, conference calls, report writing, fighting off the mosquitoes that plague us here in Haiti. My clock showed just 10 minutes until it was time to leave for the day, when without any warning the ground made slight movements, which rapidly became violent. The earth shook harder than I have ever felt before, I ran to the door but could not get out. I hid under my desk, my hand pressed up against the surface protecting my head, hoping it would hold up to the pressure of 2 stories falling on it. If I were buried under a ton of debris, would I ever get rescued? Was this the end for me?&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;As quickly as the earthquake started, the violent tremor stopped, everything became still again. Covered in dust, I scrambled shaking over the rubble by the office and made it out to the safety of the street outside. People were coming out stunned, some crying, some injured, some silent. A count of heads to check everyone was present showed one member of the team was missing, stuck under the rubble. Companions brought him out and they carried him unconscious on a piece of the gate on their shoulders to the nearest hospital where he later died. Several of the hospitals had already collapsed. Home, schools, offices &amp;#8212; the buildings we spend our lives in become our greatest danger.&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;Cars were left abandoned in the street, roads were impassable covered by collapsed walls, buildings, telegraph poles and crushed vehicles. We walked the long way home not saying much, amongst people praying, crying, hysterical. It was surreal. We made a large detour around the petrol station that had exploded but was still making uncomfortable noises. A couple of people were wailing outside a collapsed building, the broken sign on the wall showed it had been a university.&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;Communication in emergency situations is often not easy. The phone networks were either down or overloaded so it is impossible to find out if our friends were okay. I had no way of letting my family know that I had survived and just hoped that they wouldn&amp;#8217;t hear about the earthquake until tomorrow. We have no idea where was worst hit or how the rest of the country is doing.&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;January 13&lt;/b&gt;               &lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;Last night we walked home in the dark, slept, or tried to sleep in the space in the garden least likely to have a wall or building fall on it should the aftershocks cause more damage. I lay feeling the aftershocks through the night under a beautiful sky heavy with stars, kept awake by the loud singing, clapping and shouting at what must be a local church and by our local confused cockerel who spent the night letting us know he was still alive!&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;Today we walk back to the office in the stark light of day. We pass the collapsed hospital at the end of our street. We pass a man carrying his dead child, repeating out loud that he has his beloved dead child in his arms, not knowing where to go. We pass people being carried on all kind of makeshift stretchers, doors, blankets or whatever they can get their hands on to carry their loved ones to medical facilities for help.&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;We went up and down the main road 6 times today, each time more corpses appeared, some covered in sheets some just lying contorted and stiff and coated in the dust that covers the city. I wonder if their families know where they are? It is impossible to make even a wild estimate at the number of people who have died, are missing or affected by this earthquake, which measured 7.3 on the Richter scale.&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;In Canape Vert Park, hundreds of people are sitting on the street, in the small open space. The smell of urine and excreta is strong. As the days pass the corpses and waste will become increasingly pungent.&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;Supermarkets have either collapsed, been looted or are closed for fear of trapping people in collapses from the aftershocks. The only food we find for sale is some unappetizing fruit that a group of women are selling on the side of the road. The cost of water has already gone up. Food and drinking water are scarce. I wonder how long we can last on the food we have at home, maybe two or three days. People are currently searching for family members or are in shock. I am concerned about the possibility of unrest related to the lack of food available in the coming days. Haiti is not exactly the breadbasket of the region.&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;We attend an Oxfam staff meeting, we are a small organization yet 7 people had their homes destroyed and several other homes were damaged. Haitians are heeding the advice that it is dangerous to sleep in their beds because of the aftershocks. Most people are sleeping on the street.&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;Teams are organized to go to different coordination meetings and collect information about the situation here in Haiti. We suggest that those members who are not coming into work this week help dig out people still alive trapped in the rubble.&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;We go to the WASH cluster meeting with a group of organizations who work in Water, Sanitation and Hygiene to coordinate the WASH response. In an emergency many organizations come to help so we need to work together and organize who does what and where.&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;Streams of people with suitcases are leaving the city to stay with friends and family in other parts of Haiti and the Dominican Republic.&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;The earth moves almost constantly this evening. I feel queasy. This evening is colder. Not like England in January cold, but chilly. Just before midnight a large noisy trail of people pass our house, they are worried by the rumor that a Tsunami is coming and are seeking refuge higher up in the hills. It´s raining a little. Tonight Port au Prince is spending its second night sleeping under the stars.&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;January 14&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;Haiti is not known for having a good security record. We hear that all the inmates from the huge local penitentiary who were not killed by the earthquake have escaped.&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;Today we do a rapid appraisal of the communes where we have recently trained teams in emergency WASH (Water, sanitation and Hygiene) response. Visiting the open areas where displaced people are sleeping, the main needs we are told, not surprisingly are drinking water, food, medicines and latrines.&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;The WASH coordination meeting does not go as planned but in a good way. Several private water companies are offering their services to provide water to key locations in the city, which is wonderful news. These organizations will provide 80 trucks full of water. The international organizations including Oxfam need to organize storage and management of the water, which is an enormous task.&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;Unfortunately we also find out that our emergency stock, (the materials that we keep stored so that we came respond quickly when there´s an emergency) have become inaccessible following the quake. This is a huge setback as tomorrow we want to start distributing water. People are hungry and people are thirsty.&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;The most disturbing sights of today were not the piles of debris that just 2 days ago were homes and local schools. The sights that made me draw breath were the bodies. A neat row of 16 bodies carefully wrapped in sheets, the group of 20 at the Canape Vert roundabout some identified with ripped cardboard name tags, a pile with no sheet covering them, just thrown one on top of the other and the two bodies on the corner of a street, an adult motionless under a small dead child.&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;Today lots of people are covering their faces with scarves and face masks, they believe this will protect them from diseases spread by dead bodies. Red scarves are particularly popular. Red is believed to be the strongest color and helps ward off disease.  It is true that dead bodies from cholera victims can spread disease, but just walking past the bodies of the ordinary healthy people that the quake has taken does not. But it is a link that people often make probably because of how traumatic it is to see the bodies. &lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;We are told that a plane is sending emergency materials for us and it should arrive tomorrow! This is great news.&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;January 15&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;Today was spent preparing to distribute water. I visited a golf course, currently home to about 10,000 people. There are a lot of sick and injured people sleeping out here. I was looking for an appropriate place to mount a portable water storage container (a bladder).&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;I am really curious about why people are walking around with thick white cream smeared under their noses. I imagine it must be something sweet smelling to counter the bad smells here. In fact it is toothpaste put there supposedly to stop them getting ill!&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;We are still sleeping outside and will continue to do so for a few days to come. I am not sure what I miss more, sleeping in my bed or eating cooked meals! Tomorrow we have a long but hopefully really productive day ahead of us. We will start installing the water points and distributing drinking water. &lt;/p&gt;  										  									    								  								                  								&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;    &lt;div class="posterous_quote_citation"&gt;via &lt;a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/helen-hawking/my-story-from-the-earthqu_b_426392.html"&gt;huffingtonpost.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;   &lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://mchealth.tumblr.com/post/341031154</link><guid>http://mchealth.tumblr.com/post/341031154</guid><pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 10:57:03 -0500</pubDate><category>haiti</category></item><item><title>Haiti Relief Effort Update - Oxfam Australia 	</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class="posterous_autopost"&gt;&lt;div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"&gt; &lt;object height="417" width="500"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/WCvqsn1L5c8&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="window"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed allowfullscreen="true" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/WCvqsn1L5c8&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1" allowscriptaccess="always" height="417" wmode="window" width="500"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;    &lt;div class="posterous_quote_citation"&gt;via &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=GB&amp;amp;v=WCvqsn1L5c8"&gt;youtube.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;   &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://mchealth.tumblr.com/post/340890138</link><guid>http://mchealth.tumblr.com/post/340890138</guid><pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 08:37:35 -0500</pubDate><category>haiti</category><category>HelpHaiti</category></item><item><title>BBC News - UK charities prepare to deliver Haiti earthquake aid</title><description>&lt;div class="posterous_autopost"&gt;&lt;div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"&gt; &lt;embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/emp/2.18.13034_14207/9player.swf?revision=11798" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="embedReferer=&amp;amp;embedPageUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.bbc.co.uk%2F1%2Fhi%2Fuk%2F8461058.stm&amp;amp;config_settings_language=default&amp;amp;config=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.bbc.co.uk%2Fplayer%2Femp%2Fconfig%2Fdefault.xml%3F2.18.13034_14207_20091118114410&amp;amp;domId=emp_8461058&amp;amp;playlist=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.bbc.co.uk%2Fmedia%2Femp%2F8460000%2F8461000%2F8461058.xml&amp;amp;holding=http%3A%2F%2Fnewsimg.bbc.co.uk%2Fmedia%2Fimages%2F47117000%2Fjpg%2F_47117024_jex_573027_de27-1.jpg&amp;amp;config_settings_autoPlay=false&amp;amp;config_settings_showPopoutButton=false&amp;amp;autoPlay=false&amp;amp;config_plugin_fmtjLiveStats_pageType=eav1&amp;amp;config_plugin_fmtjLiveStats_edition=Domestic&amp;amp;fmtjDocURI=%2F1%2Fhi%2Fuk%2F8461058.stm&amp;amp;config_settings_showUpdatedInFooter=true" allowscriptaccess="always" height="315" wmode="default" quality="high" width="500"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;div class="posterous_quote_citation"&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;div&gt;  	&lt;p&gt;UK aid efforts are underway to help earthquake hit Haiti, where the death toll is thought to be over 100,000. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hygiene is the key challenge facing Oxfam&amp;#8217;s aid workers, and its Bicester warehouse is piled high with equipment to establish sanitation and a clean water supply. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The items including water testing kits, buckets and disposable latrines are essential for saving lives in the aftermath of the earthquake that has devastated Haiti. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Lucy Sheppard reports. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;    &lt;a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8461058.stm#"&gt;READ MORE: UK team seek survivors in Haiti&lt;/a&gt;    &lt;/div&gt;                    &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="posterous_quote_citation"&gt;via &lt;a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8461058.stm"&gt;news.bbc.co.uk&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;via &lt;a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8461058.stm"&gt;news.bbc.co.uk&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;   &lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://mchealth.tumblr.com/post/335969499</link><guid>http://mchealth.tumblr.com/post/335969499</guid><pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 11:37:41 -0500</pubDate><category>bbc</category><category>haiti</category><category>HelpHaiti</category></item><item><title>Red Cross Blogs - Getting aid to Haiti quake survivors </title><description>&lt;div class="posterous_autopost"&gt;&lt;div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"&gt; &lt;blockquote class="posterous_long_quote"&gt;&lt;h2&gt;Getting aid to Haiti quake survivors&lt;/h2&gt;    			&lt;p&gt;By &lt;a href="http://blogs.redcross.org.uk/author/pete/" title="Posts by Pete Garratt"&gt;Pete Garratt&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;January 15, 2010 at 4:22&amp;#160;pm&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  				&lt;div class="tweetmeme_button" style="float: right; margin-left: 10px;"&gt;&lt;iframe src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/button.js?url=http%3A%2F%2Fblogs.redcross.org.uk%2Femergencies%2F2010%2F01%2Fgetting-aid-to-haiti-quake-survivors%2F&amp;amp;source=britishredcross&amp;amp;style=normal&amp;amp;service=bit.ly&amp;amp;service_api=R_d9901db99b599e465d14d12c99018695" height="61" frameborder="0" width="50" scrolling="no"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img class="alignright size-full wp-image-27038" src="http://blogs.redcross.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/injured-boy-next-to-RC-work.jpg" height="150" alt="Injured-boy-next-to-Red Cross worker" width="190"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Forgive me for not blogging earlier but it’s been hard to get a moment to gather my thoughts since Tuesday night, when my phone went as I was just on my way to bed.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;I received a text alerting me to the Haiti quake – which was 7.0 on the Richter scale. From my knowledge of the country I knew that an earthquake of that magnitude located in the capital Port au Prince would have a major impact. Immediately I was on the phone to colleagues, planning out initial response activity.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;An early start the next morning. First off, we released £200,000 from our Disaster Fund to support the relief efforts of Red Cross staff and volunteers in Haiti who were helping survivors before the dust had even settled. Then colleagues from my team (disaster management) got together with others from fundraising and communication to launch the &lt;a href="http://www.redcross.org.uk/TLC.asp?id=102173"&gt;Haiti Earthquake Appeal&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img class="alignright size-full wp-image-27039" src="http://blogs.redcross.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Red-Cross-aid-warehouse-190.jpg" height="150" alt="Red Cross aid in a warehouse" width="190"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; Because we already had pre-positioned relief items in our regional warehouse in Panama – such as kitchen sets, hygiene kits, blankets and shelter kits – we were able to contribute these goods for 3,000 families straight away. And we have now released over £1.64 million to support the relief efforts in Haiti.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Although I knew it was going to be bad, I still wasn’t quite prepared for the full extent of the horror that has unfolded over the last few days. The infrastructure of the affected area has been completely decimated and getting any information is extremely difficult. But quite early on we heard reports about the Red Cross building being damaged and my thoughts naturally turned to our colleagues. Although I’ve since heard that all the international Red Cross staff are accounted for, sadly a number of local staff have been killed.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;The Red Cross is a global family and hearing this news is hard, along with seeing the terrible images on the news of all who are suffering I’ve been moved and motivated even more to do all I can to help.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Haiti is a French speaking nation and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies – who co-ordinate all Red Cross National Societies from around the world at times of natural disasters – quickly deployed a number of emergency response units (ERU) from countries that speak French.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img class="alignright size-full wp-image-27044" src="http://blogs.redcross.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/BRC-ERU-pack-kit-190.jpg" height="150" alt="BRC-ERU-pack-kit" width="190"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;However, I’ve just found out that even more assistance is needed and I’ve been asked to deploy our logistics ERU. We’re now working on getting that team on a plane first thing tomorrow. They will be going to the Dominican Republic – which is Haiti’s neighbour – to facilitate delivery of relief that needs to go by road, as the airport is overloaded.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;As well as co-ordinating our response, I’ve given a number of media interviews. It’s important at times like this to get the message out and communicate to the public what we are doing and how urgently we need to raise money to continue helping survivors.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img class="alignright size-full wp-image-27041" src="http://blogs.redcross.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Father-holding-child-190.jpg" height="150" alt="Father-holding-child" width="190"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;You may have seen some reports that aid isn’t getting through. It’s true that the challenge we’re now facing is to consolidate our support and make sure that the aid gets delivered as quickly as possible.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;However, we are closely monitoring the security situation in Haiti and based on current information, the arrival and distribution of vital Red Cross relief items has not been affected. Security issues will be taken into consideration as the situation becomes clearer and relief programmes are established.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;It’s vitally important with so many people affected that the aid is prioritised for those who need it most. But our teams are trained and experienced at identifying the most vulnerable and making sure that they get the aid in the safest way.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;It’s been long days and nights for us here in the London office, but obviously far worse for those living through this nightmare. We will continue to do everything we can.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Please help us by giving to the &lt;a href="https://www.donate.bt.com/dec_form_haiti.html?p_form_id=DHEA05"&gt;Disasters Emergency Committee emergency appeal&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Image 1 © American Red Cross&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Image 2 © Eliana Aponte / Reuters&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Image 3 © Lloyd Sturdy / British Red Cross&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Image 4 © Matthew Marek / American Red Cross&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="posterous_quote_citation"&gt;via &lt;a href="http://blogs.redcross.org.uk/emergencies/2010/01/getting-aid-to-haiti-quake-survivors/?utm_source=twitterfeed&amp;amp;utm_medium=twitter&amp;amp;utm_campaign=blogs"&gt;blogs.redcross.org.uk&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;   &lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://mchealth.tumblr.com/post/335961528</link><guid>http://mchealth.tumblr.com/post/335961528</guid><pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 11:29:42 -0500</pubDate><category>haiti</category><category>red cross</category></item><item><title>Avaaz - HELP HAITI: DROP THE DEBT</title><description>&lt;div class="posterous_autopost"&gt;&lt;div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"&gt; &lt;blockquote class="posterous_long_quote"&gt;&lt;h1&gt;HELP HAITI: DROP THE DEBT&lt;/h1&gt;  				&lt;table&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td valign="top"&gt;  				    			As Haiti begins to receive desperately needed funds to cope with the earthquake, it still owes &lt;b&gt;hundreds of millions of dollars in debt &lt;/b&gt;&amp;#8212; a legacy of loans from global financial institutions and donor nations to unelected governments of years past.&lt;p&gt; &lt;b&gt;If these debts aren&amp;#8217;t cancelled, Haiti will be sending tens of millions&lt;/b&gt; to the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and IMF even as it struggles to rescue and rebuild.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;    &lt;a href="http://www.avaaz.org/en/haiti_drop_the_debt" target="blank"&gt;Sign the petition&lt;/a&gt;, and Avaaz will deliver it to the IDB, the IMF, and donor governments like the United States to urge them to cancel the debt immediately &amp;#8212; and to&lt;b&gt; make sure that earthquake relief doesn&amp;#8217;t create a new debt burden.  &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.avaaz.org/en/haiti_drop_the_debt" target="blank"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="posterous_quote_citation"&gt;via &lt;a href="http://www.avaaz.org/en/haiti_drop_the_debt/?cl=450092431&amp;amp;v=5254"&gt;avaaz.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;   &lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://mchealth.tumblr.com/post/335764190</link><guid>http://mchealth.tumblr.com/post/335764190</guid><pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 08:10:58 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>VIDEO: Oxfam Australia's Haiti Earthquake Appeal</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class="posterous_autopost"&gt;&lt;div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"&gt; &lt;object height="417" width="500"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Kl-RjnC0Llo&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="window"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed allowfullscreen="true" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Kl-RjnC0Llo&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1" allowscriptaccess="always" height="417" wmode="window" width="500"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;    &lt;div class="posterous_quote_citation"&gt;via &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kl-RjnC0Llo"&gt;youtube.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;   &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://mchealth.tumblr.com/post/335469767</link><guid>http://mchealth.tumblr.com/post/335469767</guid><pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 02:29:09 -0500</pubDate><category>aid</category><category>australia</category><category>donations</category><category>earthquake</category><category>haiti</category><category>HelpHaiti</category><category>oxfam</category><category>video</category></item><item><title> American Red Cross Releases $10 Million to Help Haiti</title><description>&lt;div class="posterous_autopost"&gt;&lt;div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"&gt; &lt;blockquote class="posterous_long_quote"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Priority needs are food, water, shelter, medical help&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    												  		  																										&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class="xn-location"&gt;WASHINGTON&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span class="xn-chron"&gt;Jan. 14&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;/PRNewswire-USNewswire/ &amp;#8212;&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;With estimates that as many as three million people may be affected by the catastrophic earthquake which hit &lt;span class="xn-location"&gt;Haiti&lt;/span&gt; Tuesday, the American Red Cross is releasing an additional &lt;span class="xn-money"&gt;$9 million&lt;/span&gt; for earthquake relief, bringing its total commitment so far to &lt;span class="xn-money"&gt;$10 million&lt;/span&gt; to support relief efforts in &lt;span class="xn-location"&gt;Haiti&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;    &lt;div class="posterous_quote_citation"&gt;via &lt;a href="http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/american-red-cross-releases-10-million-to-help-haiti-81527007.html"&gt;prnewswire.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;   &lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://mchealth.tumblr.com/post/334695228</link><guid>http://mchealth.tumblr.com/post/334695228</guid><pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 17:21:15 -0500</pubDate><category>aid</category><category>donations</category><category>earthquake</category><category>haiti</category><category>HelpHaiti</category><category>press release</category><category>red cross</category><category>united states</category></item><item><title>AUDIO: Louis Belanger of Oxfam Headed to Haiti</title><description>&lt;div class="posterous_autopost"&gt;       &lt;div style="padding: 5px 5px 10px 5px; margin-top: 5px; border: 1px solid #ddd; background-color: #fff;line-height: 16px;"&gt;       &lt;div style="float: left; margin-right: 5px; overflow: visible;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/haitiquake/ruvrumGHYO7yuEyduF42BLpx8dDtsiFmdWJX1SM7mzCzcstgPtzcSkzNBeZj/ipadio_15967_Louis_s_phlog_-_3.mp3" style="color: #bc7134;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://posterous.com/images/filetypes/mp3.png" style="border: none;"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;       &lt;div style="font-size: 10px; color: #424037;line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Louis&amp;#8217;s Phlog - 3Rd. &lt;/b&gt;  &lt;br/&gt;Download now or &lt;a href="http://haitiquake.posterous.com/audio-louis-belanger-of-oxfam-headed-to-haiti" style="color: #bc7134;"&gt;listen on posterous&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;       &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/haitiquake/ruvrumGHYO7yuEyduF42BLpx8dDtsiFmdWJX1SM7mzCzcstgPtzcSkzNBeZj/ipadio_15967_Louis_s_phlog_-_3.mp3" style="color: #bc7134;"&gt;ipadio_15967_Louis_s_phlog_-_3rd_phonecast.mp3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: 10px; color: #424037;"&gt;(302&amp;#160;KB)&lt;/span&gt;       &lt;br style="clear: both;"/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;      &lt;p&gt;Louis will provide regular updates. He is heading to Santo Domingo, DR from New York and then into Haiti on Wednesday.&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://mchealth.tumblr.com/post/331930244</link><guid>http://mchealth.tumblr.com/post/331930244</guid><pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 01:13:37 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>U.S. sending disaster response teams to Haiti | Reuters</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class="posterous_autopost"&gt;&lt;div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"&gt; &lt;blockquote class="posterous_short_quote"&gt;WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Agency for International Development is sending disaster response teams to Haiti to help the impoverished nation after it was hit by a major earthquake on Tuesday.&lt;/blockquote&gt;    &lt;div class="posterous_quote_citation"&gt;via &lt;a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE60C0IB20100113?type=politicsNews"&gt;reuters.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;   &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://mchealth.tumblr.com/post/331718597</link><guid>http://mchealth.tumblr.com/post/331718597</guid><pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 22:57:17 -0500</pubDate><category>earthquake</category><category>haiti</category><category>united states</category><category>usaid</category></item><item><title>Haiti's White House - Palais Nationale...in shambles | Twitter</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;div class="posterous_autopost"&gt;&lt;div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"&gt; &lt;a href="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/haitiquake/xxbvHAnqBjzJtsAgrHBJnhjFboilEfvdwaElpGhrHhlDpxaunJEmjgeeyxfx/media_https3amazonaws_EvlvH.jpg.scaled1000.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/haitiquake/xxbvHAnqBjzJtsAgrHBJnhjFboilEfvdwaElpGhrHhlDpxaunJEmjgeeyxfx/media_https3amazonaws_EvlvH.jpg.scaled500.jpg" width="500" height="375"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;     &lt;div class="posterous_quote_citation"&gt;via &lt;a href="http://twitpic.com/xvh9i"&gt;twitpic.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;   &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://mchealth.tumblr.com/post/331697451</link><guid>http://mchealth.tumblr.com/post/331697451</guid><pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 22:45:18 -0500</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
