Continuing to offer help and support to Haitians, who have been the victims of an earthquake in their country, volunteers many from Calgary’s Haitian community, are putting together ten thousand of care packages for keeping families clean for a month.

With relatives in Haiti, Bettina Pierre-Gilles says it is tough on all those who have lost their homes.

Walmart and Samaritan’s Purse have teamed up together to help get hygiene products to those in need of them.

Three-month-old Landina Seignon severely injured in the Haitian earthquake could die within a week unless she can be flown to the UK for specialist head surgery.

Plucked from the rubble of a hospital, originally Landina was being treated for a burn.

However, she has also suffered major head injuries with burns to her head, and has had her right arm amputated after the collapse of the hospital that killed an orthopaedic surgeon along with 20 nurses.

The churches of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Springfield have raised significant amounts of donations in two weekends of special collections for Haiti relief efforts.

Since Wednesday, $276,202.31 has been raised by 65 parishes and schools, while nine parishes in Berkshire County report $44,075 in donations, and still collecting. In addition, apart from diocesan donations, Stockbridge’s National Shrine of the Divine Mercy has collected an $37,000 from Catholic Relief Services (CRS) local, national and international benefactors.

Members of the United Way Worldwide in the Caribbean are mobilising staff, volunteer leaders and resources for rescue and relief efforts in Haiti, with United Way of West Tennessee beginning donation collections for assisting in these efforts.

If, you wish to send a donation, you can send a cheque to the following address i. e. United Way of West Tennessee, Attn: Haiti Disaster Fund, P. O. Box 2086, Jackson, TN 38302, not forgetting to reference Haiti Disaster Fund in the memo line or any enclosed correspondence.

The earthquake in Haiti has been termed the worst Haiti disaster by UN, with loss of life the worst ever. However, a local church in West Texas trying to make a difference is collecting donations for helping the relief efforts in the disaster struck country.

With their hearts going out to the stricken people struggling to survive the devastating earthquake in what is known as the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, the Monsignor Larry Droll of St. Ann’s Catholic Church passed around a second collection during Sunday services.

A team of doctors, including emergency personnel from Cooper University Hospital in Camden and and one from the University of Michigan are in Haiti for providing aid to the survivors of last week’s earthquake, where over 45,000 people have died and an even larger number of survivors are in desperate need of medical help.

Another team of doctors, nurses and emergency medical technicians will be joining the group in Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic, where co-ordinating with the White House and the National Disaster Medical System, they will receive their Haiti itinerary.

Dr. Green, 64, a neuro-surgeon was the first foreign doctor to reach Haiti after the earth-quake.

From the University of Miami (UM), Dr. Green who heads The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, is a key player in efforts to save injured Haitians, since he knows the country well. In 1994, he and Dr. Arthur Fournier, a community-health specialist, after leading a medical reconnaissance mission to see how UM could help the impoverished country, co-founded Project Medishare in Haiti.

The United States considers a temporary halt of deportations of about 30,000 Haitians, US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Thursday.

The US administration considered granting Temporary Protected Status to those 30,000 Haitians who illegally entered the US before President Barack Obama took office, Clinton said on a short stop-over in Haiti on her way to the Summit of the Americas in Trinidad and Tobago.

Haiti fears the repatriations would deprive it of much-needed remittances. The protected status would allow the Haitians to stay in the US.

At least 30 people, including many children, died when a school building collapsed Friday in the Petion Ville suburb of Haitian capital Port-au-Prince, while more than 100 were injured, Haitian Radio Metropole reported.