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Latest news about the Haiti Earthquake
Haiti Earthquake Appeal
A devastating earthquake measuring 7.3 on the Richter scale struck Haiti on 12 January 2010. The Haiti governmtent estimates that one million people have been severely affected by the earthquake and more than 200,000 people have died. Hundreds of thousands are in urgent need of assistance.
The earthquake, which hit the capital Port-au-Prince and nearby areas, is reported to be the worst quake to strike the country in 200 years. The most affected area is Haiti's West Province with an official population of 2.2 million, although thousands more people were living in shanty towns around the city which have completely collapsed.
Funding is urgently needed to provide hospital care, clean water, food, emergency shelter and to help people get back on their feet in the long term.
International relief operations are continuing to scale up their operations. Efforts to assess the extent of this huge disaster are ongoing and no accurate figures of the dead and injured are yet available. Haiti is the poorest country in the western hemisphere and as such the impact of the earthquake in the longer term will be significant.
So far, thanks to the unprecedented generosity of the public, the Disasters Emergency Committee has raised £70 million. However, the sheer scale of this disaster means more is still needed.
People affected by this disaster are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance. Please give what you can today.
In the event that we raise more money than can be reasonably and efficiently spent, any surplus funds will be used to help us prepare for and respond to other humanitarian disasters either overseas or here in the UK.
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Haiti Earthquake Appeal
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