Michelle Obama makes surprise visit to quake-ravaged Haiti

First lady Michelle Obama made a surprise visit to the capital of Haiti on Tuesday, where three months after the devastating earthquake, thousands of people remain in dire need of help. Along with Jill Biden, wife of Vice President Joe Biden, the First lady took a helicopter tour of Port-au-Prince, where thousands of people are still homeless because [...]

Haiti schools reopen for the first time after earthquake

Since the devastating earthquake in Haiti on January 12, the schools in the capital were kept closed. However, the institutes began opening across the capital for the first time in three months on Monday. This is a step towards normality in the traumatized country, after the damage or destruction of almost 4,000 schools in the [...]

UN chief Ban Ki-moon urges support for $4bn Haiti plan

UN chief Ban Ki-moon has opened a fundraising conference on Haiti by calling for a “wholesale national renewal” of the earthquake-hit country. Mr Ban gave his support to a plan to rebuild Haiti which will require almost $4bn (£2.65bn) in initial aid payments. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told delegates the US would give [...]

Resurrecting razed Haiti from the dust

Haiti is already fighting one battle against Mother Nature. Now it is facing another. In just a few weeks, by the end of March, or in April, the rainy season will begin. Some 700,000 people are living out in the open, in makeshift shelters.The luckier have found old and rusty corrugated iron roofs. Others huddle [...]

Fake Coupon Scam Hits Haiti Aid Effort

Another setback hit the struggling aid effort in Haiti as the UN halted deliveries to around 10,000 quake survivors after discovering that fake coupons were in operation. A disconcerted crowd waited till the afternoon at the drop-off site located near the town hall in the Port-au-Prince suburb of Petioville, and some tried to get tickets [...]

A catastrophe called “Haiti”

The quake – Haiti’s worst in two centuries – struck at 1653 92153 GMT) on 12th January 2010. Phone lines to the country failed shortly afterwards. The US Geological Survey said its epicentre was 15km (10 miles) south-west of Port-au-Prince, and that it was quickly followed by two strong aftershocks of 5.9 and 5.5 magnitude. [...]

Haiti detains 10 Americans taking children across border

Ten Americans were detained by the Haitian police on Saturday as they tried to bus 33 children across the border into the Dominican Republic, allegedly without proper documents. The Baptist church members from Idaho called it a “Haitian Orphan Rescue Mission,” meant to save abandoned children from the chaos following Haiti’s earthquake. Their plan was to scoop up [...]

Travolta lands his own jet in Haiti carrying relief supplies

John Travolta landed his own jet in Haiti on Monday carrying relief supplies, Scientology ministers, and a team including doctors. The 55 year-old actor flew the Boeing 707 from Florida carrying 4 tons of rations and medical supplies for the earthquake victims of the capital of Port-au-Prince. Also accompanying Travolta was his wife, actress Kelly [...]

Haiti earthquake death toll reaches 150,000

The confirmed death toll from Haiti’s devastating earthquake had risen above 150,000 in the Port-au-Prince area alone, a government minister had said. Communications Minister Jocelyn Lassegue said the count was based on bodies collected in and around the capital by state company CNE. Many more bodies remain uncounted under rubble in the capital, including the [...]

Safety Precautions for Earthquakes

After the catastrophe that had happened to Haiti just last week because of the 7.0 magnitude earthquake that hit the island leaving more than 110,000 people dead, devastated buildings and houses and more than 70,000 people injured, most of us are seeking for some safety measures when an earthquake is happening. These are some safety [...]

Telethon raises $57 million for Haiti

The “Hope for Haiti Now” telethon, a US telethon to help raise funds for Haiti earthquake victims, which led by George Clooney and Haiti-born rapper Wyclef Jean, has raised more than $57 million for relief to the earthquake-ravaged country, organizers said on Saturday. They called the $57 million a record for public donations in a [...]

110,000 Confirmed dead in Haiti quake

More than 110, 000 people have been confirmed dead in the Haiti earthquake which struck January 12, with Reichter scale magnitude of 7.0. Nearly twice as much as the government’s previous estimate of 75,000 killed. The government has put the death toll from the devastating earthquake at 11,499, with an estimated 193,691 people injured and [...]

Rescue operations in Haiti declared “over”

After the rescue operations done in the devastated capital city of Port-au-Prince due to a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck on January 12, The United Nations says Haiti’s government has declared the search and rescue phase for survivors of the earthquake over. This announcement came after rescue teams have pulled two people, an 84-year-old woman, and [...]

“Hope for Haiti Now,” fund-raising show for Haiti

Last week a massive earthquake struck the island of Haiti, leaving a devastated capital city of Port-au-prince, thousands of dead bodies found, hundreds of homeless families and never ending need for aid such as food, medicine and shelter for victims.  The international community immediately made actions, and millions of dollars have been already raised. But [...]

Haiti rescuers still hoping to save lives

Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Still holding on hopes as they race against time and terrifying aftershocks, rescue teams scouring Haiti earthquake-hit capital are awarded with small miracles as they have found two survivors in search for possible lives almost nine days. Two children were pulled from the wreckage of collapsed buildings in Port-au-Prince on Wednesday, eight full [...]

6.1 magnitude quake hits Haiti

Only eight days after the country’s capital was devastated by an earthquake, a new powerful aftershock hit Haiti on Wednesday, which shook buildings and sent people screaming into the streets. The magnitude of the quake was 6.1, making it the largest aftershock yet to the apocalyptic January 12 quake that left the capital of Haiti [...]

Haiti earthquake orphans thousands

Over thousands of children have been orphaned by the earthquake, aid groups have reported. The number orphans is said t be so high, a number has still not been ventured. The number of children is reported to have increased as the rescue teams continue to dig under the rubble of the collapsed buildings. The chaos [...]

Americans in Haiti says it’s a never ending nightmare

Thousands of Haitians died in crumbled buildings and establishments after the 7.0 magnitude earthquake which struck the island just last week.  But there were also more than 45,000 United States citizens on the island when the catastrophe occurred, from missionaries and aid workers to businessman and tourists. At least 16 Americans have been confirmed dead [...]

More survivors in Haiti quake rubble found

Against increasingly high odds, search teams and rescue workers around the capital city of Port-Au-Prince in Haiti, have found more survivors under the rubble. On Friday, the fourth day of recovery efforts after a magnitude 7.0 quake that toppled countless homes and buildings, British firefighters pulled a 2-year old girl from a fallen building. Seven [...]

Haiti places death toll at 200,0000

As many as 200,000 people died in the earthquake that devastated Haiti, and three-quarters of the capital, Port-Au-Prince, will need to be rebuilt according to authorities in the Caribbean country. “We have already collected around 50,000 dead bodies. We anticipate there will be between 100,00 and 200,000 dead in total, although we will never know [...]

More U.S. military troops bound to Haiti

United States President Barrack Obama signed an executive order over the weekend allowing members of the reserves to be called up to support the relief efforts in Haiti, where the U.S. military on Sunday bolstered the flow of troops and humanitarian aid. About 5,000 U.S. military were already assisting on the ground and from ships [...]

Briton confirmed dead in Haiti earthquake

United Nations worker Frederick Wooldridge has been confirmed as the first British man who have died in the Haiti earthquake which hit last Tuesday. His family paid tribute to him saying he “loved” his work with the UN where he was  a Senior Political Affairs and Planning officer. They said, “Frederick was a much-loved member [...]

Their stories on Haiti earthquake

This 7.0 magnitude earthquake which struck Haiti last Tuesday, January 12th, has been all over the headlines and also internet websites for less than a week now.  CNN News has compiled stories of their website readers and they told stories about how this tragedy affected their lives. SUSAN WESTWOOD, Port-au-Prince, Haiti She is a pediatric [...]

Scientists say that Haiti must prepare for more earthquakes

Scientists warned on Friday that Haiti and its neighboring areas must prepare themselves for more massive quakes after the devastating tremors this week increased pressure along a lengthy fault line. Paul Mann, a senior research scientist at the Institute for Geophysics at the University of Texas at Austin, warned that just because the rebuilding process had [...]

Extreme destruction of Haiti earthquake

Firsts reports from the epicentre of Tuesday’s 7.0 magnitude earthquake in Haiti suggest the damage is even more dramatic than in Port-au-Prince, as said in the reports. They said the scene in Leogane, west of the capital city of Haiti, has the extreme damage more than in Port-au-Prince, with thousands left homeless and almost very [...]

Haitians searching for missing loved ones

Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Haitians are desperately waiting outside crumbled schools, devastated buildings, or shattered markets, in search for their parents, children, siblings or lovers.  They stand waiting at smashed buildings asking for latest recovered dead bodies or survivors, where they thought their relatives was last known to visit or at establishments where they remembered their mothers [...]

Mia, 2, rescued by British firefighters in Haiti

UK teams rescued a two-year-old girl named Mia from the horrors of the 7.0 magnitude earthquake which hit Haiti last Tuesday, after she been trapped under a collapsed nursery for almost three days.  These workers, which were a part of a team of 61 who came from UK, used their bare hands to rip through [...]

UN appeals for $560 million for Haiti aid

The UN appealed for $560 million on Friday to help the three million people badly affected by the earthquake. About a third of the buildings were said to have been damaged or destroyed by the massive earthquake and help was needed for the devastated Haitians. The UN humanitarian chief John Holmes launched the emergency request [...]

Aid floods in as death toll rises in Haiti

Planeloads of food and medicine poured in Haiti on Thursday along with troops to help the traumatized nation hit by the massive 7.0 magnitude earthquake, which led to the collapse of government buildings, homes and countless people. Although the death toll is expected to be over 100,000, reports from the Haitian Red Cross have confirmed [...]