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Rain Dumps Lakes of Water into Haiti Quake Camps
April 8, 2010
By Jonathan M. Katz
A brief rain storm flooded Haiti's earthquake camps, worrying residents hours after they were told to brace for a more-active-than-usual hurricane season.
A windy 20-minute downpour left a half foot of water inside makeshift tents on the sloping golf course of the Petionville Club, now a tarp-and-tent neighborhood of about 45,000 people.
People ran for cover in viscous mud wearing plastic shower caps and towels over their heads. Leaks sprung in emergency tarps given by aid groups after the Jan. 12 earthquake destroyed their homes.
© 2010 The Associated Press
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HOW YOU CAN HELP
Make Donations to:
Adventist Development and Relief Agency | http://www.adra.org/site/PageServer
American Red Cross | http://www.redcross.org/help
Americares | http://www.americares.org
Batey Relief Alliance | http://www.bateyrelief.org/
CARE | http://www.care.org/
Catholic Medical Mission Board | http://www.cmmb.org
Dartmouth College | http://www.dartmouth.edu/~news/features/haiti/index.html
Direct Relief International | http://www.directrelief.org
Episcopal Relief and Development | http://www.er-d.org
Family Health International | http://www.fhi.org/Haitirelief
Hesperian | http://www.hesperian.org/
InterAction | http://www.interaction.org/crisis-list/earthquake-haiti
International Medical Corps | http://www.imcworldwide.org/haiti
International Rescue Committee | http://www.theirc.org/
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School Public Health | http://www.k4health.org/toolkits/haiti_relief
Management Sciences for Health | http://www.msh.org/donate/haiti-relief-fund/
MEDICC | http://www.medicc.org/ns/index.php?s=19&p=19
Operation Blessing | http://www.ob.org
Physicians for Human Rights | http://actnow-phr.org/campaign/help_haiti
Population Services International | http://www.psi.org/
Project Concern International | http://www.projectconcern.org
Save the Children | http://www.savethechildren.org/
The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene | http://www.astmh.org/AM/
World Vision | http://www.worldvision.org/
United Nations Foundation | http://www.unfoundation.org/donate/cerf.html
Donate Via Text Message:
Text "Haiti" to 90999 - donates $10 to the Red Cross
Text "Haiti" to 25383 - donates $5 to International Rescue Committee
Text "CERF" to 90999 - donates $5 to The United Nations Foundation
Text "Haiti" to 85944 - donates $10 to International Medical Corps
Help for Haiti - USAID
http://www.usaid.gov/haiti/
Free health materials in Haitian Creole
Hesperian | http://creole.hesperian.net/
Remarks by President Obama on Rescue Efforts in Haiti
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/remarks-president-rescue-efforts-haiti
Help for Haiti, The White House Blog
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/01/13/help-haiti
Council Members Blog Directly from Haiti
Voices from Haiti, Blogs from the Field
A collection of blogs from organizations providing relief and medical care following the Haiti earthquake
http://www.globalhealthmagazine.com/guest_blog_top_stories/voices_from_haiti
Related articles for week beginning March 1, 2010:
Can Workfare Help Resurrect Quake-Ravaged Haiti?
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1968223,00.html
Technology's Helping Hand
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2360795,00.asp
Some Students Plan Spring Break in Haiti, Despite Warnings
http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2010-03-01-springbreakhaiti_N.htm
Only Plastic Between Haiti Homeless And Storms
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2010/02/25/world/international-us-haiti-storms-shelter.html
Low-Cost Cabins Offered for Post-Haiti Earthquake Housing
http://bit.ly/bilywH
As the Rains Come, Haitians Wait for Temporary Shelter
http://bit.ly/bSp6RA
Countless Lost Limbs Alter Life in Haiti's Ruins
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/23/world/americas/23amputee.html
category: News from Other Sources : General Health News
contributed by Winnie Mutch on 5 April 2010
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