UN Launches Massive Appeal for Victims of Haiti’s Earthquake

The United Nations has launched an appeal for more than half a billion dollars to provide relief to the victims of last Tuesday’s devastating earthquake in Haiti.

UN humanitarian chief John Holmes said the $562 million would be used to assist the more than three million people affected by the quake for six months.

While the push for relief in the impoverished nation has been massive there are still search crews desperately trying to find victims who remain trapped under the rubble of collapsed buildings and homes. Rescuers believe there are a number of people still alive but time is running out to free them from the debris.

Conservative estimates have placed the number of dead in Port-au-Prince at 50,000 people but many believe that death toll could rise to 100,000 by the time all the wreckage is cleared. Haiti’s Interior Minister Paul Antoine Bien-Aime went even higher, saying as many as 200,000 people may have lost their lives in the quake.

For those who did survive the 7.0-magnitude quake relief has been hard to come by as distribution of water, food and medical supplies have been slowed due to the conditions.

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