Donors at a conference Wednesday pledged to provide Haiti with $5.3 billion over the next 18 months to help the country rebuild after the January earthquake, the Wall Street Journal reports (Rhoads/Lauria, 3/31). "The amount exceeded by more than $1 billion the goal set ahead of a conference...
As donors from more than 100 countries gather at the U.N. in New York Wednesday to discuss the rebuilding of earthquake-ravaged Haiti, Cheryl Mills, an advisor to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, said that the U.S. "will be focusing on agriculture, energy, health and security. Also...
The American Red Cross announced its long-term recovery plan for spending the rest of the nearly $400 million it has received in Haiti donations. The announcement comes two days before an international donor's conference hosted by the United Nations to discuss ways that governments and...
In an interview with Reuters, Haitian President Rene Preval on Tuesday said that the U.S. State Department Human Rights report, which says corruption is "widespread in all ... levels of government" in Haiti, is "arrogant" and that Haiti should have the final say in approving plans to rebuild the...
A "thorough analysis prepared by the Haiti government, together with the United Nations and other international organizations" estimates it will take $11.5 billion over the next three years to repair damage to Haiti after a major earthquake struck in January, the Wall Street Journal reports...
MAYBE obama should give us unemployed people with CHILDREN us gauranteed jobs..little children and famlies in the USA parents lost our jobs laid off why cant we be helped with that?,,,children and homeless people in our own country starving...i mean i think we should be able to help other...
Scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory at Stennis Space Center are supporting Haiti relief operations. The Marine Geosciences Division's Geospatial Sciences and Technology branch is providing a specially configured version of its patented NRL Tile Server and Geospatial Information Database...
Scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory at Stennis Space Center are supporting Haiti relief operations. The Marine Geosciences Division's Geospatial Sciences and Technology branch is providing a specially configured version of its patented NRL Tile Server and Geospatial Information Database...
...2012? Does anyone else think that its kind of weird that we are having lots of tsunamis and earthquakes in the past 10 years? including in New Orleans etc
BLU-MED Response Systems(R) donated a 50-Bed Deployable Medical Facility in the city of Leogane, Haiti. This was in response to the 7.0 magnitude earthquake that devastated Leogane on January 12th, 2010. The air-conditioned facility, providing 4,500 square feet of floor space, will be supported...
BLU-MED Response Systems(R) donated a 50-Bed Deployable Medical Facility in the city of Leogane, Haiti. This was in response to the 7.0 magnitude earthquake that devastated Leogane on January 12th, 2010. The air-conditioned facility, providing 4,500 square feet of floor space, will be supported...
The American Red Cross issued a one-month progress report on its efforts to provide food, water, relief supplies, shelter, healthcare, family services and other assistance since the January 12 earthquake in Haiti. "Every day since the earthquake, we have been focused on getting aid into the...
At a press conference on Saturday, "Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said he and his G-7 colleagues would forgive bilateral loans extended to poverty-stricken Haiti, which estimates it could have lost 200,000 residents in the major earthquake that hit last month," Dow Jones Newswires...
Three weeks after a major earthquake struck Haiti, challenges in getting aid to those in need persist, the Washington Post reports. "Rajiv Shah, the administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development, said the relief effort has escalated in recent days and will continue to do so...
"The U.S. government said on Sunday it would resume military evacuation flights" within 12 hours for critically ill and injured Haitians who were harmed in the Jan. 12 earthquake, Reuters reports (Rosenberg/Brown, 1/31). Medical evacuations had been suspended for a few days, but the reason for...
Fresenius Medical Care North America (FMCNA), the world's largest integrated provider of products and services for individuals undergoing dialysis because of chronic kidney failure, is donating and delivering dialysis supplies to Haitians, at a time when relief supplies continue to be slow to...