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Sun, 2016-12-04 21:53 — Maeryn Obley
crofsblogs.typepad.com - December 4th 2016
Two months after Hurricane Matthew devastated southwestern Haiti, thousands of people are still without adequate shelter, food and potable water, and some remote communities have not received assistance.
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams are witnessing a deterioration of living conditions in the heavily affected areas. In Sud and Grand’Anse departments, MSF set up mobile clinics to evaluate the general health conditions of children.
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Food crisis looming in Haiti as aid slow to reach storm victims
submitted by John Carroll
theguardian.com - by Ben Quinn - December 13, 2016
. . . the major concern is of a looming food crisis if crops destroyed by the hurricane – in a region once regarded as Haiti’s bread basket – are not replanted.
“ . . . Most of the people affected were already living in dire misery, inhumane conditions,” Fortuné told the Guardian, describing the coordination of aid as “non-existent”.
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