Haiti Earthquake Updates
Port-Au-Prince: On the Streets, people were still dying, pregnant women were giving birth and the injured were showing up in wheelbarrows and on people's backs at hurriedly erected field hospitals.
Water began to reach more people around the capital and while fights broke out elsewhere, people formed lines to get supplies handed out by soldiers at a golf course. Still, with a blocked city port and relief groups claiming the US-run airport is being poorly managed, food and medicine are scarce.
Troops, doctors and aid workers flowed into Haiti on Monday even while hundreds of thousands of quake victims struggled to find a cup of water or a handful of food.
European nations pledged more than a half-billion dollars, with $474
million in emergency and long-term aid coming from European Union alone and $132 million promised by member states.
But Haitian had more immediate worries. "We don't need military aid. What we need is food and shelter", one young man yelled at UN secretary Geeral Ban Ki-moon during his visit to the city on Sunday. "We are dying," a woman told him. Haitian riot police meanwhile fired tear gas to disperse crowds of looters in the city's down town as several nearby shops burned. "We've been ordered not to shoot at people unless completely necessary," said Pierre Roger, a Haitian police officer who spoke as yet another crowd of looters ran by.
Funds will be directly used for Haiti people by iEncyclopedia society (About iEncyclopedia Society)
Home - About us - Register - Downloads - Download Toolbar - Contact us
