children’s cries fill Haiti’s night
PORT AU PRINCE (Reuters) In the frightening pitch black of quake stricken Haiti night, religious songs rise from groups of people huddled in open spaces for safety uk canada goose outlet and solidarity.
People rest under buy canada goose jacket cheap blankets outdoors in Port au Prince, Haiti after a 7.0 magnitude earthquake January 12, 2010. REUTERS/Matt Marek/American Red Cross/Handout
The chanting and clapping, mainly by women, echo from hill to hill, street to street, as Haitians uk canada goose pray for their dead and canada goose clearance ask God to spare them more suffering after an earthquake that has killed thousands and flattened much of the capital.
While the widespread singing provides comfort, the jarring shrieks and sobs of injured children some lying in the street clutching bloody gashes are a haunting reminder of the untended suffering in Haiti.
my God, who will help my country now? said Manuel Deheusch, a Haitian businessman who came rushing back from neighboring Dominican canada goose store Republic to check on his friends, Canada Goose Coats On Sale family and properties.
world has to help us now. We cannot sort out this mess ourselves, he added, shaking his head and whispering the names canadian goose jacket of families whose houses he saw flattened as he drove round Port au Prince in the canada goose coats on sale early evening.
Scores of dead bodies litter the streets, some untouched, others covered with a sheet or piece of clothing. Outside the Hotel Villa Creole, where journalists and aid workers gather to sleep the night, two bodies lie in the street right outside.
is a near impossible task, said a local volunteer, trying to bring succor to the dozens of injured and frightened Haitians lying and sleeping in the street outside the hotel, itself damaged by the quake.
Haitians left homeless in the aftermath of Tuesday’s earthquake rest at a park in Port au Prince January 13, 2010. PEACEKEEPERS IN SHOCK There appears to be little major relief work under way yet.
Neighboring Dominican Republic has sent in some truckloads of aid and a few ambulances, which came screaming back out of Haiti with some injured people before night fell canada goose uk shop on Wednesday.
In the city, Haitians pick over rubble forlornly, seeking loved ones.
help Canada Goose online has to come from outside now because the Canada Goose Parka capability of the aid organizations inside has been 2018 goose jackets smashed, said Canada Goose Outlet Mike https://www.canadagooseoutlete.com/ Stewart, country director for the Hope for Haiti charity, which has set up a mini hospital outside the Villa Creole. Its workers were mainly treating people for broken bones and internal bleeding.
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who have come to us have died already, Stewart said. will be more dead by morning. We need to operate but we don have the equipment. All the aid organizations have taken a huge hit, buildings smashed, people killed and so on. peacekeepers 9,000 are stationed in Haiti dot the canada goose clearance sale streets but look canada goose black friday sale bemused, overwhelmed and worried about their own circumstances.
have not even been able to call my wife yet. Canada Goose Jackets She may think I dead, said one Chilean peacekeeper, who asked not to be named.
He canada goose uk black friday and some buy canada goose jacket blue helmet colleagues from other Latin American nations sat on a line of vehicles including a tractor, earth mover, and two cranes facing a road covered in rubble that they had been tasked with clearing.
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While trying to absorb the magnitude of what has happened, Port au Prince residents also are terrified canada goose coats of more aftershocks and looting. This reporter did not see a single policeman on the streets of the cheap Canada Goose coastal capital.
Two aftershocks came and went on Wednesday, causing screams of terror to rise from the Canada Goose Online streets, and sending people running out of buildings.
While Haiti has seen plenty of violence in the past, this reporter saw a stoic and strangely calm atmosphere on the street canada goose factory sale and was several times politely requested to donate a canada goose bottle of water, which was quickly shared among many needy people.
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