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Richard Allaway

Haiti promised €230m as Nicolas Sarkozy visits former colony | World news | g... - 1 views

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  • Nicolas Sarkozy promised €230m (£200m) in aid for Haiti
  • France has already said it was cancelling all of Haiti's €56m debt. The aid package will also include reconstruction money, emergency aid and €30m in support for the Haitian government's budget.
Matt Podbury

Haiti earthquake - Adjustments and Responses (Correct Ver) - 2 views

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    Haiti earthquake - Adjustments and Responses
Matt Podbury

ReliefWeb » Document » Evaluating the Haiti Response: Encouraging Improved Sy... - 3 views

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    Haiti Earthquake Response. Risk assessment and hazard response.
Richard Allaway

2010 Haiti earthquake - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • The neighbouring Dominican Republic was the first country to give aid to Haiti,[105] sending water, food and heavy-lifting machinery
  • The first team to arrive in Port-au-Prince was ICE-SAR from Iceland, landing within 24 hours of the earthquake
  • A rescue team sent by the Israel Defense Forces' Home Front Command established a field hospital which included specialised facilities to treat children, the elderly, and women in labour near the United Nations building in Port-au-Prince. It was set up in eight hours and began operations on the evening of 16 January
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  • The International Charter on Space and Major Disasters was activated, allowing satellite imagery of affected regions to be shared with rescue and aid organisations
  • Rescue efforts began in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake, with able-bodied survivors extricating the living and the dead from the rubble of the many buildings which had collapsed
  • treatment of the injured was hampered by the lack of hospital and morgue facilities
  • The supercarrier USS Carl Vinson arrived at maximum possible speed on 15 January with 600,000 emergency food rations, 100,000 ten-litre water containers, and an enhanced wing of 19 helicopters; 130,000 litres of drinking water were transferred to shore on the first day
  • The buoy tender USCG Oak and USNS Grasp (T-ARS-51) were on scene by 18 January to assess damage to the port and work to reopen it,[182][183] and by 21 January one pier at the Port-au-Prince seaport was functional, offloading humanitarian aid, and a road had been repaired to make transport into the city easie
  • The United Kingdom's Secretary of State for International Development Douglas Alexander called the result of the earthquake an "almost unprecedented level of devastation", and committed the UK to ₤20 million (US$32.7 million) in aid
  • Italy announced it would waive repayment of the €40 million (US$55.7 million) it had loaned to Haiti,[142] and the World Bank waived the country's debt repayments for five years
Matt Podbury

Evaluating Vulnerability in the 2011 Japan Earthquake and the 2010 ... - 3 views

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    Evaluating Vulnerability in the 2011 Japan Earthquake and the 2010 Haiti Earthquak
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