American Red Cross Haiti Relief
January 15, 2010
The situation is dire. Hundreds of thousands of people are feared dead. Government offices, including the Presidential Palace, have collapsed.
Hospitals and the local Red Cross office have sustained major damage. Children, families and communities are still suffering aftershocks following yesterday’s devastating earthquake. We’re sending a team of trained Red Cross responders to support our local staff and the Haitian Red Cross volunteers already providing food, water, and medical treatment to survivors. We pledged $200,000 from our International Response Fund in relief services yesterday, and increased our commitment this morning to $1 million thanks to your advance generosity.
Hospitals and the local Red Cross office have sustained major damage. Children, families and communities are still suffering aftershocks following yesterday’s devastating earthquake. We’re sending a team of trained Red Cross responders to support our local staff and the Haitian Red Cross volunteers already providing food, water, and medical treatment to survivors. We pledged $200,000 from our International Response Fund in relief services yesterday, and increased our commitment this morning to $1 million thanks to your advance generosity.
Matthew Marek, who runs our office in Haiti, managed to relay the following details to us last night using Skype, an online messaging service:
some neighborhoods are completely flat. major individual home damage. no telephone
i’ve seen untreatable issues. bones broken and exposed. lacerations of all kinds
medical attention is needed all throughout the capital. people are scared and gathered in the streets
there is really no place to go in many of these neighborhoods
the dust from the collapse is still lingering in the air.
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