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Moving forward, one street at a time
Oxfam’s Coco McCabe is in Haiti to help with the relief effort, where she joins 200 Oxfam staff already on the ground.Each day since we’ve been here in the collapsed Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince, the traffic has grown worse–a reality that is both good and bad. Life is slowly coming back in this battered city after a massive earthquake 10 days ago.People are on the move in any vehicle that still rolls and isn’t buried under a heap of rubble. And that’s a good thing: there’s a vibrancy here that is irrepressible. read more
22 January 2010
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Helen Hawkings: Diary from Haiti, part 2
Saturday 16th January Today we were back at the golf course, previously an exclusive area for the rich of Port au Prince, it is now home to an estimated 10 – 15,000 people during the day and 50,000 at night. Our mission for the day is to start distributing water. read more
19 January 2010
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17 January 2010
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Crossing the border towards Haiti
After spending all day posting and tweeting the latest Haiti earthquake images and updates, I was about to shut down my computer... when I received this blog from Juan Ramón Duarte, our Regional Information Systems Manager for Latin America and the Caribbean, who is based in Mexico. So I leave you for the weekend with his moving entry: read more
15 January 2010
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