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Richard Allaway

Haiti promised $10bn in aid - double what it asked for | World news | guardian.co.uk - 0 views

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  • The US secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, who co-chaired a conference of about 120 countries and international organisations at the United Nations in New York, called the pledges "an impressive sum by any standard". The conference drew $9.9bn of donations to rebuild infrastructure
Richard Allaway

BBC News - Canada to build Haiti government base, PM Harper says - 0 views

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  • Canada will build a new headquarters for Haiti's government, Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced at the start of a two-day visit to the country.Mr Harper said Canada would spend CAN$12m (£7.3m) on a temporary base after January's earthquake destroyed many government offices. The base, made of prefabricated modules and inflatable shelters, is to house key ministries for up to a year.
Richard Allaway

BBC News - US military to end Haiti quake mission in June - 0 views

news.bbc.co.uk/...8631408.stm

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  • There are currently 2,200 US troops in the country, down from a peak of 22,000 in February when large numbers were despatched to help the aid effort. Some 500 National Guard troops and reservists will remain in Haiti to help aid workers, a US commander said.
Richard Allaway

How Haiti has inspired our fundraisers | World news | The Guardian - 0 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...haiti-fundraising-ingenious

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  • seven-year-old Charlie Simpson (pictured), whose pledge to cycle at least seven times around his local park in south London has so far raised more than £165,000, including £5,000 from Simon Cowell
Richard Allaway

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

en.wikipedia.org/...2010_Haiti_earthquake

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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

Emergency Response Team - EPDM - 2 views

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    Short, Medium and Long Term Responses to Hazards.
Matt Podbury

The world's worst manmade environmental disasters - 2 views

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    Human Induced Disasters
Matt Podbury

BBC News - Gulf of Mexico oil rig spill seen from the air - 3 views

news.bbc.co.uk/...8645938.stm

Human induced hazard

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    Human Induced
james sheriff

Haitian government to the West: Please stop feeding the natives! - 5 views

cofcc.org/...lease-stop-feeding-the-natives

Haiti Aid Earthquake

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    great article about overkill of aid to Haiti
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