Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–January 26, 2010.  Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), along with Senators Bill Nelson (D-Fla.), Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) and George LeMieux (R-Fla.), hailed the Senate passage of legislation to provide $25 million in additional funding for the U.S. Repatriation Program, which currently[Read More…]

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti–(ENEWSPF)–25 January 2010 – UN representatives and leaders from 15 nations are meeting today in Montreal, Canada, to discuss the long-term reconstruction of earthquake-shattered Haiti – with the aim of building back better than before. At the same time, UNICEF and its partners on the ground are reaching children[Read More…]

NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–25 January 2010 – The postal sector, a key economic “motor”, will help to spur recovery in Haiti in the wake of a catastrophic earthquake earlier this month, a senior United Nations official said today. “Haitians need effective postal services to be able to receive and send mail and[Read More…]

NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–25 January 2010 – The top United Nations envoy to Haiti, which was devastated by a massive earthquake nearly two weeks ago, today proposed a new way to coordinate relief efforts in the Caribbean nation to ensure that aid reaches those who need it. Edmond Mulet, the Secretary-General’s acting[Read More…]

HAITI–(ENEWSPF)–January 25, 2010.  Foreign ministers meeting in Montreal on Monday should agree to cancel Haiti’s outstanding $890 million international debt in the wake of the devastating earthquake, international agency Oxfam said today. Debt cancellation is one of Oxfam’s five priorities for Haitian reconstruction. The other elements are: Support for Haitian[Read More…]

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti–(ENEWSPF)–Jan. 25, 2010.  The global humanitarian organization Save the Children is supporting efforts to promote breastfeeding among new mothers in Haiti to ensure the protection of the youngest and most vulnerable survivors of the devastating January 12 earthquake. The agency has translated internationally recognized public health messages into Creole,[Read More…]

PORT-AU-PRINCE–(ENEWSPF)–January 25, 2010.  Haitian surgeon Dr. Philippe Brouard has worked with Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) at Trinité hospital in Port-au-Prince since 2006. On January 13, the morning after the earthquake, he came to work at the trauma surgery centre only to find that most of Trinité had collapsed.[Read More…]

HAITI–(ENEWSPF)–January 25, 2010.  Nearly two weeks after the January 12 earthquake, the most pressing needs Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams in Haiti face are patients who still require surgery and the growing number of patients who now require post-operative care. In Port-au-Prince, Choscal hospital in the Cite Soleil[Read More…]