Help For Haiti - why?

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Because the next stage of this crisis is about water.

Lack of safe water (from the Unicef website) http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/haiti_52499.html)

An estimated 300,000 people are homeless as a result of the devastation in Haiti. Many of them are living in makeshift camps without access to adequate food, water or basic services. In this context, the supplies delivered thus far are certainly just the beginning of an enormous relief operation.

As the lead UN agency for water and sanitation in the quake zone, UNICEF is working to provide survivors with family water kits, water-purification tablets and other supplies aimed at mitigating the deadly effects of contaminated water.

Aside from simply delivering these essential supplies, we must also work to promote hygiene by providing soap and issuing messages in French and Creole on preventing and treating diarrhoea, cholera and dysentery, said UNICEF Emergency Operations Officer Ainga Razafy. Our priority is to prevent a second wave of disaster and ensure against the outbreak of any life-threatening, water-borne diseases.

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