Haitian President René Préval has called yesterday the population affected by the earthquake of January 12 to show solidarity, “patience” and “discipline” to face delays in distributing food and tents. Read more
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Haiti adoption: a bilateral commission
France proposes to the Haitian authorities to create a bilateral commission to review cases of adoption of children for whom no decision had been made before the earthquake of January 12, or has been produced following the disaster, said Friday the Quai d’Orsay. Read more
In Haiti, voodoo is still standing
The story of a makeshift tent next to the others on the Champ de Mars, the main square in Port-au-Prince turned into refugees camp. At night in the darkness of the camp devoid of electricity, a werewolf just suck the blood of survivors sleeping. The rumor is not surprising in a country where imagination wander. Read more
Elections postponed
The legislative and senatorial elections in Haiti under the February 28 and March 3 will be postponed “to a later date, unspecified, due to the earthquake, said the official body responsible for organizing the elections.
So far 170,000 dead in the Haiti Earthquake
Haitian President René Préval announced today that the bodies of “nearly 170,000″ victims of the earthquake of January 12 have already been collected, a figure higher than the latest estimates of the authorities advanced the figure of 150,000 dead.
Hope for Haiti Now Telethon Raised $58 Million
The “Hope for Haiti Now” telethon, shown Friday January 22, 2010 on 25 different television networks around the world, had by Saturday raised $58 million, with organizers saying that donations continue to be received. The donations will benefit Oxfam America, Partners in Health, the Red Cross, UNICEF, United Nations World Food Programme, Wyclef Jean’s Yele Haiti Foundation and the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund .
Leonardo DiCaprio Donates $1 Million
On January 21, 2010, actor Leonardo DiCaprio announced he was donating $1 million to the Clinton-Bush Haiti Fund, the relief effort led by former Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush and one of the organizations benefiting from the telethon.
MTV’s “Hope for Haiti” Global Telethon
MTV’s “Hope for Haiti,” the two-hour global telethon to air commercial-free across ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, CNN, BET, the CW, HBO, MTV, VH1, CMT, MTV Networks International and CNN International on Friday, January 22, 2010 at 8 p.m. ET/PT.
The telethon will be hosted by journalist Anderson Cooper in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, musician Wyclef Jean in New York, and producer/director George Clooney in Los Angeles, California. Perfomances will be made by Beyonce and husband Jay-Z, Justin Timberlake, Bruce Springsteen, Taylor Swift, Mary J. Blige, Coldplay, Alicia Keys and Christina Aguilera, Rihanna and U2’s Bono and The Edge in London. All donations from the telethon will benefit the not-for-profit organizations involved in the Haiti Earthquake relief effort.
WoW! With so many of your favorite celebrities and musicians, how could you miss this. Mark your calendar and cancel your date for this Friday night, the show starts at 8 p.m. The only way you’ll miss this is if you don’t have access to a television set, which is rare in 2010.
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