UNICEF: Protecting children in aftermath of Haiti's "double disaster"

http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/haiti_52589.html

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, 25 January 2010 UN representatives and leaders from 15 nations are meeting today in Montreal, Canada, to discuss the long-term reconstruction of earthquake-shattered Haiti with the aim of building back better than before.

At the same time, UNICEF and its partners on the ground are reaching children with life-saving support and protection.

To date, a total of eight supply flights have arrived in Haiti and the neighbouring Dominican Republic, carrying essential aid for earthquake survivors. But both emergency relief and long-term recovery are challenging in the context of Haitis double disaster because the extreme poverty and other development constraints that it already faced have now worsened significantly.

Still, children are UNICEF's number-one priority the earthquake zone. They need to be found, fed, kept alive and kept safe.

In this video, UNICEF correspondent Chris Niles reports on how Haitian citizens and UNICEF are working together to protect children.

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