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Madonna Like A Prayer Hope for Haiti
Madonna still has the power and the mass choir is awesome.
Andy Kim musical tribute to Haiti
Andy Kim – Love Is
Andy Kim – Love Is video tribute to those affected by the tragic earthquake in Haiti. E1 Music will donate royalty share from YouTube to Red Cross.
4.2 After-Shock Hits Haiti
7:54 AM local time 15 miles North NW of Port-au-Prince
Aftershock Jan 22 2010 click for larger image from US Geological Survey
US Geological Survey reports 25 km (15 miles) NNW of PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti
Friday, January 22, 2010 at 07:54:16 AM at epicenter
Depth – 10 km (6.2 miles) set by location program
No damage reported but it did spook people. The earth is still moving according to seismologists, or at least settling.
From CNN
6:40 a.m. – Authorities pushing to clear earthquake-relief bottlenecks in Haiti continue to work Friday to improve the flow of relief supplies at the south pier in Port-au-Prince. The January 12 quake damaged the capital’s north and south piers. Haitian authorities and the U.S. military had restored one-way traffic to the south pier, which is the smaller of the two, by Thursday. Port-au-Prince’s north pier remains unusable.
Mile wide smile on rescued boy
The smile seen round the world; CNN’s Jeanne Moos on a Haitian kid’s you-saved-my-life grin
CNN
Royal Caribbean lines to resume vacations in Haiti
Waiter run and get me a drink – who cares if you’re family’s dead or hurt?
A Royal Caribbean passenger took this photo of the cruise line's facilities in Labadee, Haiti, during a stop in 2006
Corporate greed and insensitivity rose to new heights as Royal Caribbean announced it was returning tourists to Haiti at the beginning of February. They have a guarded resort 100 miles from devastation, death and injury so why not. The Internet is ablaze denouncing it but the greedy money boys know there is no time like the present to make money and capitalize on some free publicity.
A St. Mary’s University, Halifax ethicist professor says it’s all good (we don’t agree but that’s free speech) “The proximity sets off our gut reactions, but it doesn’t seem to make any real moral difference, he said. Mullis pointed out that the Dominican Republic — Haiti’s touristy neighbor on the island of Hispaniola — is also close to the disaster but is doing business as usual.”Anyone who doesn’t feel a bit of awkwardness at the thought of beach volleyball in the north of Haiti right now doesn’t have normal moral intuitions,” MacDonald said.”
For details on their self-serving logic, check out CNN.
Haiti port opening raises hopes for quake victims – video
Efforts to rebuild Haiti’s main port are being stepped up in an effort to ensure emergency supplies reach millions still in need of aid.
Port-au-Prince harbour opens photo: BBC
After more than a week, the harbour at Port-Au-Prince. Haiti has been opened. There is still lots of work to do: cranes that unload ships need to be repaired, the roads are broken and heaved up. The US who is leading the charge is using military personnel and their skills to get the aid cargo working as quickly as possible. With 10 days, rescue teams have started to return home. No one is expected to be found alive. They recovered 122 people in the last week, a blessing for them but a drop in the bucket against 70,000 people buried in graves and the expected 200,000 more buried under buildings. Other aid is coming but not what is needed yet. Lancet magazine says medical aid is uncoordinated and the teams spend too much time looking for media attention and public relations.
From BBC
US navy and army divers are to start repairing the port’s pier on Friday.Re-opening Haiti’s seaport in the capital, Port-au-Prince, is seen as vital to the international aid effort.
Millions of people remain in need after Haiti’s earthquake, and plans are being made to house 400,000 survivors in new tented villages outside the capital.
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Doctor in Haiti: Wounded children calling for missing parents
Doctors still missing needed medical equipment and drugs
Doctors fight life of a child rescued from rubble in Israeli medical tent
By Arthur Brice, CNN
Port-au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) — Pediatrician Elizabeth Bellino was supposed to start work in Africa this week. Instead, she found herself trying to save lives Wednesday at a field hospital in Haiti’s capital.
She wishes she had more painkillers and antibiotics, and she wishes some parents would do what’s best for their children.
“We’re seeing a lot of kids getting amputated,” Bellino said. “We’ve also seen a lot of refusals from parents, and they left.
“So those kids will probably die.”
She’d seen three cases of parents walking out with their children in the past 24 hours, Bellino said late Wednesday afternoon.
Although she just arrived Tuesday, Bellino has already seen too much.
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Disability the hidden horror of Haiti
After the rescuers move on to the next disaster and the eyes of the world move with them, the Haitians with disabilities will be buried under the crushing weight of the country’s other unmet priories
Haitian boy in wheelchair photo: Peter Trassi Haiti Mission (not related to NextStep)
Those of us with disabilities, like the rest of the watching world, have been horrified by the images of death, misery and physical destruction that have rolled off our TV and computer screens continually from Haiti for the last week. Like so many, we have shut them out, unable to stand the sight of another twisted body strewn in the street or tossed on a barricade as hopelessness turns to anger, unable to listen to the cries of another bandaged child torn forever from a family dead under unmoved rubble.
But, like the rest of the watching world, we are prompted to act, to do something, to give something that will connect us with that awful human suffering, but dull the pain of that connection. We must do something now, even though we know that supplies are piling up at the tiny Port au Prince airport because they can’t be trucked to those who will starve without them, even though other people’s money is pouring in so fast that many NGOs can’t count it, much less coordinate its use.
Those of us with disabilities who know the island also know that after the last body is buried, the last hospital is rebuilt and the country begins to come alive again as its rescuers move on to the next disaster and the eyes of the watching world move with them, that people like us, now multiplied by the earthquake’s crush will be buried under the crushing weight of the country’s other unmet priories.
Haitians Chant “USA! USA!” During Rescue
After hours of work, an L.A. County urban search and rescue team pulls a woman from the rubble as crowds begin to chant “USA, USA”.
LA rescue team extracts woman from the rubble
Watching the video, it is amazing how many people work on rescuing one person from the rubble of a building collapsed in the earthquake.
Aid workers frustrated with relief effort
Anger boiled over on the streets of Haiti’s capital Tuesday — not just from residents who have gone a week without food and water, but from the people who are supposed to be providing it.
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