Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Canada is Haiti's second largest donor after the United States. During the unsettled period from 1957 to 1990, Canada received many Haitian refugees, who now form a significant minority in Quebec. Canada participated in various international interventions in Haiti between 1994 and 2004, and continues to provide substantial aid to Haiti. [16]
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the organization behind the Golden Globe Awards, donated US$100,000 to Wyclef Jean's Yele Haiti relief fund. [74] Home Depot contributed US$100,000. [75] Intel had given US$250,000, plus in-kind contributions and matching employee donations add up to US$1.08M as of January 20, 2010. [76]
The Dominican Republic was the first country in the world to provide aid to Haiti, and the Dominican Government approved a special budget to Haiti Aids of US$6.4 million to focus on health programs (US$1.7 million), food programs (US$1.4 million), the army (US$1.5 million), and others.
The United States will contribute $300 million to the Kenyan-led multinational security mission to Haiti, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Monday, as the situation on the ground continues to ...
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced on Thursday that the US intends to provide $200 million to the multinational security support mission in Haiti. He said that funding will go to ...
Appeals for international aid were immediately requested by Raymond Joseph, Haiti's ambassador to the United States and his nephew, singer Wyclef Jean, [4] The American Red Cross quickly announced that it had run out of supplies in Haiti and appealed for public donations. [5]
Amid a Federal Aviation Administration ban on flights from the U.S. to Haiti, some volunteers remain unwavering in their determination to travel to the Caribbean country to help the innocent ...
Over 16,000 United States military personnel were deployed to Haiti in support of the US response: [38] The US Coast Guard cutters USCGC Forward and USCGC Mohawk, both arrived in Port-au-Prince on 13 January 2010. A Maritime Intelligence Support Team aboard Forward assessed damage to the port. [39]