Sunday, January 17, 2010

More Than One Million People in Haiti's Capital Remain Homeless

More than a million people in Port-au-Prince, Haiti's capital, are without shelter and no immediate prospect of accommodation in camps, the ACT-International website reports today.

Between 60 and 80 percent of the houses in Port-au-Prince were brought down or are uninhabitable by last Tuesday's 7.0 magnitude earthquake.

Hundreds of thousands of people are roaming Port-au-Prince's streets looking for relatives and other loved ones. Rescue and humanitarian operations are complicated, because the United Nations is paralyzed following the collapse of its building, leaving over 100 staff missing.

ACT (Action by Churches Together) -- a global alliance of churches and related agencies working to save lives and support communities in emergencies -- reports it has a two-week supply of water, food, and fuel for their personal needs, but stresses that any extra staff coming to Haiti need to bring their own tents, food, sleeping bags, and cash.

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