First Aid

First aid ship arrives in flooded Haitian city (AP via Yahoo! News)

6 Sep 2008

U.N. peacekeeping troops began handing out food and water to famished Haitians on Friday after the first shipload of aid sailed into a crumbling port on the outskirts of this flooded city, where tens of thousands are stranded in the wake of Tropical Storm Hanna.

First aid ship arrives in flooded Haitian city (The Charlotte Observer)

5 Sep 2008

U.N. peacekeeping troops began handing out food and water to famished Haitians on Friday after the first shipload of aid sailed into a crumbling port on the outskirts of this flooded city, where tens of thousands are stranded in the wake of Tropical Storm Hanna. Receding flood waters revealed more corpses in the stinking muck, bringing fears the death toll of 163 will rise even higher. But on ...

First aid ship arrives in flooded Haitian city (USA Today)

5 Sep 2008

A ship carrying 33 tons of U.N. relief supplies docked in Gonaives on Friday, the first significant aid delivery to tens of thousands of people who have gone with little food or clean water for four days.