Haiti: Six Days Without Sunlight........

Below are a series of reports from the PBS NewsHour on Jan. 18th 2010 show, the first is of a very heartwarming rescue when all hope should have been gone especially in that pile of rumble once a building. For many the interview with the American Ambassador should be paid close attention to. While everyone would like to see much more rapid rescues and aid supplies to reach those tens of thousands of Haitians who need it so desperately Haiti is one of the many poor countries, not a resort island, where what is needed, like a larger airport or seaport and warehouses, where when extreme devastating natural occurrences aren't available for such a massive undertaking. Those thousands there as volunteers and more as well as the Haitians understand that.

AIR DATE: Jan. 18, 2010
Six Days Without Sunlight: Woman Survives in Bank's Rubble

SUMMARY
The arrival of fresh aid was a welcome sight in Haiti on Monday, but aid workers struggled to get food, water, and medical supplies to survivors of last week's earthquake. Bill Neely of Independent Television News reports on one woman's unlikely survival story.



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The Haitian Government has been decimated, the Ministry buildings are gone, many of the Government officials have been killed, the police forces as well as the UN peace keepers have also lost many of their personnel and as with that whole society of losses many of the health care workers were killed as well. From top to bottom this country needs, and many have answered that call, to help the Haitians who are themselves trying to help each other.

AIR DATE: Jan. 18, 2010
Aid Groups Look to Break up Bottlenecks After Haiti Quake

SUMMARY
While 7,000 U.S. forces were scheduled to be in Haiti by the end of Monday, the U.N. is seeking to send additional peacekeepers to help break bottlenecks chocking the aid effort. Jon Snow of ITN reports.



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AIR DATE: Jan. 18, 2010
Relief Effort Improves in Haiti While Security Concerns Linger

SUMMARY
In an interview with Jeffrey Brown, U.S. Ambassador to Haiti Kenneth Merten discusses the pace of the relief effort in earthquake-ravaged Haiti, security concerns in the capital, and complaints about U.S. management at the Port-au-Prince airport.



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AIR DATE: Jan. 18, 2010
Texting for Charity: Cell Phone Users Sending Relief for Haiti

SUMMARY
In just five days, the Red Cross has raised more than $21 million for the relief effort in Haiti through text messages. As Tom Bearden reports, cellphones have emerged as the new big player in charitable giving.



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Geographical agency's Earth movement analysis assists Haiti rescuers

The federal agency charged with monitoring the Earth's geography has been providing round-the-clock movement analysis of the Haiti situation using a new Caribbean seismic network funded in response to the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.

"Twenty minutes after the earthquake we could provide the U.S. government with an estimate that nearly 2 million people had been exposed to severe shaking," said David Applegate, senior science adviser for earthquake and geologic hazards at the U.S. Geological Survey. "That estimate enabled them to not have to wait for the news reports to trickle in and get a sense of the scale of the situation."...>>>>>

Coordinating Haiti Relief

Defense launches online system to coordinate Haiti relief efforts

Workers load an Air Force jet with supplies and equipment at March Air Reserve Base in California.

As personnel representing hundreds of government and nongovernment agencies from around the world rush to the aid of earthquake-devastated Haiti, the Defense Information Systems Agency has launched a Web portal with multiple social networking tools to aid in coordinating their efforts.

On Monday, Jean Demay, DISA's technical manager for the agency's Transnational Information Sharing Cooperation project, happened to be at the headquarters of the U.S. Southern Command in Miami preparing for a test of the system in a scenario that involved providing relief to Haiti in the wake of a hurricane. After the earthquake hit on Tuesday, Demay said SOUTHCOM decided to go live with the system. On Wednesday, DISA opened up its All Partners Access Network, supported by the Transnational Information Sharing Cooperation project, to any organization supporting Haiti relief efforts.

That second link in the blockquote is one some may want to check out.

Haitian Wikipedia Aid Page

Humanitarian response to the 2010 Haiti earthquake

Haiti's Logistical Problems