Red Cross Seeks $3.3 Million for Aid to Haiti
Date: 24-Sep-04
Country: SWITZERLAND
The Geneva-based IFRC - the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies - said the money was needed to help meet an urgent need for food and drinking water as well as blankets and plastic sheeting for victims of the disaster.
But the Federation would also be helping the Haitian Red Cross over the next six months with food, kitchen equipment, plastic sheeting, jerry cans, tents, mosquito nets and first aid kits, it said in a statement.
The floods and mudslides hit the Caribbean nation of some eight million people in the wake of Tropical Storm Jeanne which at the weekend swept north of the island of Hispaniola, which Haiti shares with the Dominican Republic.
Latest reports say at least 700 people have been killed and at least 1,000 are missing, mainly in and around the swamped coastal town of Gonaives. Haiti is one of the world's poorest countries, according to the United Nations.
