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Despite best efforts, aid to Haiti is faltering

by TCRN Staff Rescuers from around the world searched yesterday for survivors in the wreckage of the earthquake which struck Haiti on Tuesday, as American troops began to distribute food and water among the population. Despite the large amount of aid being sent to Haiti in food and rescue groups, the infrastructure of the small [...]

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Earthquake threatens to disrupt Haiti’s fragile recovery

by TCRN Staff The earthquake that devastated Haiti on Tuesday threatens to disrupt the process of recovery that had begun years ago in the impoverished country, experts fear. “It is not only unprecedented destruction. The quake abruptly halted a good start,” lamented Bob Perito, coordinator of programs from the U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP). “There [...]

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Relief efforts underway after Haitian earthquake

by TCRN Staff The Haitian capital was transformed into a giant cemetery after the quake that the government says will have caused over 100,000 deaths. Hundreds of thousands of people spent a second night outdoors, without water or electricity because of the 7.0 earthquake on Tuesday that destroyed the largest city in the America’s poorest [...]

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