UNICEF: Supplies on the way to Haiti quake survivors

http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/haiti_52435.html

NEW YORK, USA, 13 January 2010 The first shipment of UNICEF supplies for survivors of yesterdays devastating earthquake is on its way to Haiti. The emergency aid is urgently needed, as basic services and infrastructure in the western hemispheres poorest nation were already close to collapse even before the 7.0-magnitude quake struck.

With support from the Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, which is providing air transport, essential supplies from the UNICEF Regional Office in Panama City are being flown to the Dominican Republic tonight. They will be transported overland to the hard-hit Haitian capital tomorrow.

The airlifted items include 10,000 tarpaulins, 4,600 water containers, 5.5 million water-purification tablets, 556,000 oral rehydration sachets and other supplies to meet the basic needs of up to 10,000 families. Supply shipments for an additional 20,000 families are in the works for the coming days.

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• Port-au-Prince
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[RCvolunteer1978]

It is now over two weeks and the need is still clear there but every disaster group has fallen short in helping ... every day it is said that it is better then yesterday but lonely a few at key locations like near the air port and at the new Marina that the UN

and the US build

[seanmcelroy]

Text "HAITI" to 90999 to donate $10 to the American Red Cross for the Haitian earthquake relief effort.