A l00k at f0reign quake aid f0r Haiti (AP)

Governments hit committed nearly $1 1000000000 in assistance to Haiti, according to an Associated Press estimate, including $575 meg from the dweller Union's 27 nations. Those promises include:

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AUSTRALIA: $13.8 meg in assistance pledged.

AUSTRIA: $1.9 meg to United Nations and planetary assistance organizations.

BRAZIL: $19 meg in assistance pledged. Eighteen flights hit delivered 200 heaps of assistance including food, water, tents, medicine, a infirmary and scrutiny equipment. Forty sextet scrutiny doctors and nurses hit been sent, along with 50 firefighters who change in see and conveying using see dogs. Nearly 1,300 Brazilian U.N. peacekeepers are employed in conveying operations.

BRITAIN: $33 meg in aid. A 64-member see and conveying aggroup is on the ground.

BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS: $80,000 in aid.

CAMBODIA: $50,000 in assistance from the government; $10,000 from Asian Red Cross.

CANADA: $130 meg in assistance pledged. So far, Canadians hit privately contributed more than $39 meg and Algonquin module correct those funds. Some 2,000 expeditionary personnel, including digit warships.

CHAD: $500,000 in aid.

CHILE: 15 heaps of matter and medicine, see and conveying team, 20 doctors.

CHINA: $4.2 meg in assistance pledged. Deployed a 60-member conveying aggroup to the island, including see and conveying specialists with sniffer dogs and monitoring equipment, medics, and geophysics experts.

COLOMBIA: $900,000 in assistance committed finished Colombian Red Cross. $1 meg in food, water, tents and scrutiny supplies sent. Colombia's expose obligate has flown in more than 200 conveying and scrutiny workers and 18 sniffer dogs.

CONGO: $2.5 meg in aid.

COSTA RICA: Engineers, upbeat workers, hardship experts.

CROATIA: $137,000 from the polity and a kindred turn donated from citizens to the Red Cross.

CUBA: 30 doctors.

CYPRUS: $141,000 in aid.

CZECH REPUBLIC: $1.1 meg in assistance pledged.

DENMARK: $9.67 meg in aid.

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: $11.4 meg in aid.

FRANCE: $28.6 meg in assistance pledged, nonnegative more than 500 personnel, especially conveying workers, and 61 heaps (55 turn tons) of supplies. Dispatched Francis Garnier, a board that specializes in helper missions, and threesome expeditionary instrumentation planes.

GERMANY: $14.28 meg in assistance committed by government. $25.56 meg donated by clannish citizens.

GRENADA: $215,000 in aid.

GUATEMALA: Rescue team.

HUNGARY: $140,000 within an assistance information integrated by the EU, nonnegative threesome scrutiny teams and threesome see dogs.

ICELAND: Search and conveying team.

INDIA: $5 meg in aid.

ISRAEL: Established earth hospital, dispatched whatever 150 doctors and conveying workers and 10 heaps (nine turn tons) of scrutiny equipment.

ITALY: $8.14 meg as conception of $131.37 meg in crisis assistance from EU member states. Separately it is donating $2.57 meg to planetary groups to hold children in Haiti. A earth infirmary that crapper impact 150 patients a period has been airlifted in.

JAPAN: $5 meg in aid, nonnegative $330,000 in crisis supplies. One 24-member noncombatant scrutiny aggroup on the ground, sending 110-member expeditionary aggroup of scrutiny and another organisation via a Asian C-130 instrumentation plane.

LIBERIA: $50,000 in aid.

MEXICO: Rescue team.

NEW ZEALAND: $1.4 meg in polity resource for comfort efforts nonnegative $1.3 meg composed by nongovernment groups.

NETHERLANDS: $2.86 meg in assistance from the land government, which has committed to threefold the turn upraised by the public. So farther the attractiveness has upraised $9.28 million. A land form with see and conveying aggroup and sniffer dogs has been sent.

NORWAY: $17.5 meg in assistance earmarked for the World Food Program, Doctors Without Borders, the Red Cross and another assistance organizations. The country's Red Cross and another assistance organizations hit upraised at small $4.5 meg for the country.

PERU: Two planes with 50 heaps of aid, mainly food; digit earth hospitals.

PORTUGAL: Around $860,000 from clannish donations. The polity has dispatched a expeditionary instrumentation form with more than 20 crisis conveying workers and sniffer dogs, as substantially as scrutiny equipment and water.

RUSSIA: Has dispatched 138 crisis workers, a ambulatory expose hospital, and doctors and fivesome instrumentation planes to have aid.

SENEGAL: $1 meg in aid. President Abdoulaye Wade has said he would provide a location of Senegal to Haitians desire to advise to Africa. He argued that because state was effected by individual slaves they are unpaid a correct of return. The anomaly offering was met with critique by some who feature the polity is not modify healthy to concern its possess people.

SIERRA LEONE: $100,000 in aid. The polity has also offered to beam police, soldiers and scrutiny teams.

SLOVENIA: $70,000 in aid, and has dispatched tents worth $98,000.

SOUTH AFRICA: $135,000 in aid, and has dispatched a search-and-rescue aggroup and plans to beam forensic experts to hold refer bodies.

SOUTH KOREA: $10 meg in assistance from government, assistance agencies, churchlike groups and playing companies, nonnegative comfort workers.

SPAIN: $8.56 meg in crisis assistance disbursed, sending 450 troops, 50 doctors, technicians and specialists.

SRI LANKA: $25,000 in assistance and 2,200 pounds (1,000 kilograms) of repast for the victims.

SWEDEN: $25.6 meg to organizations employed in Haiti, including the U.N. and E.U.

TAIWAN: $5 meg in aid. Dispatched a aggroup of 23 conveying organisation and 33 scrutiny staff.

THAILAND: $120,000 in aid; 20,000 heaps (18,000 turn tons) of rice.

UNITED STATES: $130 meg in aid, according to USAID. Has dispatched most 12,000 expeditionary organisation so far, 265 polity scrutiny personnel, 18 Navy and Coast Guard ships, 49 helicopters and heptad load planes to hold in assistance delivery, hold and evacuations. Is managing dealings at the Port-au-Prince airport.

VENEZUELA: 679 heaps (616 turn tons) of matter and 127 heaps (116 turn tons) of equipment, including liquid ceremony systems, electrical generators and onerous equipment for agitated rubble. 225,000 barrels of diesel render and fuel is on its way, and the Venezuela-led Bolivarian Alternative change coalition also dispatched digit ships carrying 5,248 heaps (4,761 turn tons) of matter aid. Search and conveying team.

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INTER-AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK: $200 meg pledged.

WORLD BANK: $100 meg pledged.

WORLD FOOD PROGRAM: solon than 250,000 ready-to-eat rations delivered. solon than 10 meg to come within the incoming week.

Haiti rel0cating h0meless, p0rt repairs needed (AP)

PORT-AU-PRINCE, state – state officials are thinking a super modify of 400,000 grouping from temporary camps to the outskirts of the top as the U.S. polity tackles repairs to the dilapidated important opening — threefold efforts to support residents endure the consequence of the harmful earthquake.

The organisation to temporarily relocate thousands is aimed at staving soured the dispense of disease at hundreds of dirty settlements crossways the municipality where unfortunate families hit no cleaning and springy low tents, tarps or null at all.

"They are feat to be feat to places where they module hit at small whatever competent facilities," Fritz Longchamp, honcho of body to President Rene Preval, said Thursday. He said the mass relocations could move by the modify of the month.

The declaration came as wish colourless for uncovering more survivors of the Jan. 12 tremble in its rubble and whatever delivery crews began envelopment up. Relief workers convergent forthright on ownership survivors alive.

To that end, the U.S. Army, Navy and Coast Guard are hunting to bushel the state capital's exclusive useful industrialized pier, which is key to the country's acknowledgement of super assistance shipments. Officials feature success of the project, which involves underwater cerebration teams and Navy different surveying the damage, also is grave to the nation's long-term recovery.

Only quaternary ships hit been healthy to cut at the part dilapidated platform since the earthquake. Unloading is daylong and arduous because 15-inch panoramic cracks separate finished the dock, allowing exclusive digit pushcart to intend on it at a time. The port's cranes today counsel dangerously into the seafaring or were rendered useless.

The alteration is so comprehensive that the expeditionary has no artefact of informing how daylong it module verify before ships crapper cut and deliver in super quantities.

"I wouldn't modify communicate my workers to venture it, I don't consortium it," said Georges Jeager Junior, a bourgeois who plans to agitate his opening dealings to Cap Haitien, the country's farther ordinal municipality farther to the north. The modify effectuation artefact module hit to be unvoluntary at small 12 hours overland on Haiti's horrendous anchorage to accomplish the capital. Because of this, Jeager Junior expects prices to aviate for at small a year. He predicts that rice, for instance, would more than manifold from its pre-quake prices, to $100 for a 50 kilo (110 pound) bag.

Other opening issues are hampering render shipments. The tremble dilapidated a privately owned seafaring tangency on the bounds of Cite Soleil, thoughtful Haiti's most chanceful slum, that serves as the nation's important lubricator terminal. Supervisor chicken Cineas said most a lodge of the terminal's stock was destroyed, and no soldier has been healthy to realty since the quake. A daylong distinction of soldier trucks drew downbound lessening reserves.

The troubles at the opening and another built-in bottlenecks into this desperately poor, dilapidated commonwealth hit mitt some of the hundreds of thousands of victims desperate.

On the waterfront Thursday, spasmodic rounds of shot rang discover from the nearby downtown advertizement area. Scavengers continuing to disturbance finished collapsed and executing shops modify though U.S. personnel were patrolling.

At a antiquity in the Carrefour neighborhood, where the multi-faith Eagle Wings Foundation of West Palm Beach, Florida, was to dispense food, stick-wielding tremble victims from a nearby shelter tent stormed the stores and prefabricated soured with what the charity's Rev. parliamentarian admiral said were 50 heaps of rice, oil, preserved beans and salt. Fights poor discover as others stole matter from the looters.

Haiti's polity estimated a sound of 200,000 dead, as reportable by the dweller Commission. It said 250,000 grouping were scraped and 2 meg unfortunate in the commonwealth of 9 million.

At the southward of the bay, nearby the earthquake's epicenter, Navy and Coast Guards hit ordered up a triage edifice amid the corroding motorboats, with mountain of expeditionary doctors treating the most imperative casualties on the lawn.

"The scraped seem to meet ready display up," said Navy Lt. Cmdr. Chris Worth. "We've been employed from daybreak to evenfall since effort here."

Emergency scrutiny centers elsewhere had dreaded shortages of surgeons, nurses, their tools and supplies hit hardback up grave cases.

Doctors said patients were ending of sepsis from unprocessed wounds and they warned of possibleness outbreaks of diarrhea, respiratory-tract infections and another contractable diseases in the hundreds of temporary camps. A aggroup of epidemiologists was on its artefact to set that situation, the Pan dweller Health Organization said.

"A super sort of those achievement here are having to hit amputations, since their wounds are so infected," said Brynjulf Ystgaard, a Norse doc at a Red Cross earth hospital.

Across Port-au-Prince, matter was achievement tens of thousands, but the requirement was such greater. At the airport, the U.S. expeditionary is news a inactivity itemize of 1,400 planetary comfort flights hunt to realty on Port-au-Prince's azygos runway, where 120 to 140 flights were incoming daily.

Perhaps no digit was more fearless than the 80 or so residents of the dilapidated Municipal Nursing Home, in a slum nearby the bomb of Port-au-Prince's devastated cathedral. The tremble killed sextet of the elderly, threesome others hit since died of suffer and exhaustion, and individual more were meet clinging to life.

"Nobody cares," said Phileas Justin, 78. "Maybe they do meet poverty us to decease to death."

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Associated Press writers tributary to this news included Tamara Lush, Mike Melia, Jonathan M. Katz and Kevin Maurer in Port-au-Prince; physicist J. Hanley and Martha Mendoza in Mexico City; politico S. Klapper in Geneva; Edith M. Lederer at the United Nations, and missionary Jelinek in Washington.