[Reader-list] Haiti Numbers - 27 Days After Quake

[Paul D. Miller]

> Haiti Numbers - 27 Days After Quake
>
> By Bill Quigley
>
> February 9, 2010, CommonDreams.org
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> http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/02/09
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> 890 million. Amount of international debt that Haiti owes
> creditors. Finance ministers from developing countries
> announced they will forgive $290 million. Source: Wall Street
> Journal
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> 644 million. Donations for Haiti to private organizations
> have exceed $644 million. Over $200 million has gone to the
> Red Cross, who had 15 people working on health projects in
> Haiti before the earthquake. About $40 million has gone to
> Partners in Health, which had 5,000 people working on health
> in Haiti before the quake. Source: New York Times.
>
> 1 million. People still homeless or needing shelter in Haiti.
> Source: MSNBC.
>
> 1 million. People who have been given food by the UN World
> Food Program in Port au Prince - another million in Port au
> Prince still need help. Source: UN World Food Program.
>
> 300,000. People injured in the earthquake, reported by
> Haitian Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive. Source: CNN.
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> 212,000. People reported killed by earthquake by Haitian
> Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive. Source: CNN..
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> 63,000. There are 63,000 pregnant women among the people
> displaced by the earthquake. 7,000 women will deliver their
> children each month. Source: UN Populations Fund.
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> 17,000. Number of United States troops stationed on or off
> coast in Haiti, down from a high of 22,000. Source: AFP.
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> 9,000. United Nations troops in Haiti. Source: Miami Herald.
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> 7,000. Number of tents distributed by United Nations. Miami
> Herald. President Preval of Haiti has asked for 200,000
> tents. Source: Reuters.
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> 4,000. Number of amputations performed in Haiti since the
> earthquake. Source: AFP.
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> 900. Number of latrines that have been dug for the people
> displaced from their homes. Another 950,000 people still need
> sanitation. Source: New York Times.
>
> 75. An hourly wage of 75 cents per hour is paid by the United
> Nations Development Program to people in Haiti who have been
> hired to help in the clean up. The UNDP is paying 30,000
> people to help clean up Haiti, 180 Haitian Gourdes ($4.47)
> for six hours of work. The program hopes to hire 100,000
> people. Source: United Nations News Briefing.
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> 1.25. The U.S. is pledged to spend as much as $379 million in
> Haitian relief. This is about $1.25 for each person in the
> United States. Source: Canadian Press.
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> 1. For every one dollar of U.S. aid to Haiti, 42 cents is for
> disaster assistance, 33 cents is for the U.S. military, 9
> cents is for food, 9 cents is to transport the food, 5 cents
> to pay Haitians to help with recovery effort, 1 cent is for
> the Haitian government and ½ a cent is for the government of
> the Dominican Republic. Source: Associated Press. Bill has
> visited Haiti numerous times working for human rights. He is
> legal director of the Center for Constitutional Rights. His
> email is quigley77 at gmail.com
>