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Monthly Archives: January 2010
Ambassador Mike McRoberts Helps Save Girl in Haiti
UNICEF NZ Ambassador Mike McRoberts is in Haiti covering the disaster for TV3. Mike and his team came across a five year old girl in a camp requiring an operation for her injuries and took her to hospital where they ensured she recieved the operation. Read Mike’s TV3 blog about the story.
Field Diary: Supplies and protection for unaccompanied children in Haiti
Tamar Hahn
UNICEF Regional Communication Specialist Tamar Hahn has been serving as the agency’s chief spokesperson in the Haitian earthquake zone. She sends the following update.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, 19 January 2010 – One week has gone by since an earthquake turned what was already a desperately poor part of the world into a full-fledged humanitarian emergency. [...]
UNICEF aid is getting through
This is a post by Sue Avison, Communications Intern at UNICEF NZ.
As you know, last week Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, was hit by the worst earthquake in two centuries.
Daily news bulletins have been alerting us to the tragic consequences a disaster of this magnitude is having on Haiti. The UN is [...]
Latest from Haiti
UNICEF’s Communications Manager in Haiti Tamar Hahn sent this report from Port-au-Prince last night. To support UNICEF’s disaster relief efforts for children, please donate online
This morning I went to visit a field hospital set up at the MINUSTAH Logistical Base. The hospital consists of two giant tents filled to the brim with Haitians wounded [...]
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Focus on unaccompanied children in Haiti