Haiti Update - January 22, 2010
Five organisations - the United Nations Foundation, Save The Children, Oxfam, Mary's Meals and the British Red Cross - are now using ipadio to report on Haiti.The UN Foundation have hosted a briefing by UN Under-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs John Holmes on the situation there:http://www.ipadio.com/phlogs.asp?section=39&phlog=16193&itemtype=phlogSave The Children, as you might expect, have been concentrating on helping children in Haiti - they've set up somewhere for children to play:http://www.ipadio.com/phlogs.asp?section=39&phlog=14036&itemtype=phlogMary's Meals are a charity that feeds hundreds of thousands of people every day, and are now working in Haiti to help with the relief effort:http://www.ipadio.com/phlogs.asp?section=39&phlog=16311&itemtype=phlogThe Red Cross have David Stephens on the ground, a member of the Emergency Response Unit:http://www.ipadio.com/phlogs.asp?section=39&phlog=3611&itemtype=phlog
And finally, Oxfam have Louis Belanger in Haiti who has been updating us on what Oxfam are doing - and just this morning called in this utterly heart-rending report from the general hospital in Port-au-Prince:http://www.ipadio.com/phlogs.asp?section=39&phlog=15961&itemtype=phlogDo head over to the DEC and donate:https://www.donate.bt.com/dec_form_haiti.html?p_form_id=DHEA60
