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February 1, 2010 |
Haiti three weeks later
Tomorrow will mark three weeks since the massive January 12th earthquake in Haiti, and tent cities remain full, even as some businesses and factories are beginning to reopen in Port-au-Prince. Now that massive amounts of aid have arrived, distribution problems have cropped up and are being addressed. The World Food Program has begun a new system of delivering rice to 10,000 Haitians per day at each of 16 women-only distribution points around the city - restricted to women, since young men often muscle their way to the front of distribution lines, and the women are viewed as more likely to fairly divide up the food. Aid chiefs and donor nations are warning that Haiti will need at least a decade of painstaking reconstruction. (40 photos total)

Lt.j.g. Natalie Shaffer (center), a nurse assigned to Fleet Surgical Team 8 and embarked aboard the multi-purpose amphibious assault ship USS Bataan in Baie De Grand Goave, Haiti, hands over a newborn Haitian baby boy to his father January 30, 2010. The child was the first baby ever born aboard Bataan, which is supporting Operation Unified Response in Haiti on January 12, 2010. (REUTERS/U.S. Navy/Kristopher Wilson) #

People push to the front in a crowd waiting for food rations in Port-au-Prince, Thursday, Jan. 28, 2010. Food remains scarce for many of the neediest survivors of the Jan. 12. earthquake, as food distribution has often been marked by poor coordination and vast gaps in coverage. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull) #

Kerline Dorcant, mother of earthquake survivor Darlene Etienne, shows a photo of her daughter as she passes it to Etienne's aunt Tania Demonsthene in Port-au-Prince, Thursday, Jan. 28, 2010. Sixteen-year-old Etienne was pulled from the rubble of her cousin's off-campus house Wednesday near the ruins of the St. Gerard school, more than two weeks after the Jan. 12 massive earthquake. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton) #

Darlene Etienne, 16 is brought to hospital after being pulled alive from the rubble of a building in Port-au-Prince by a French rescue team on January 27, 2010. Severely dehydrated and so weak she could barely talk, Etienne managed a whispered 'thank you' to her rescuers after surviving for fifteen days. (LAURENT ROCH/AFP/Getty Images) #

Andre Jean, 80, has her hair combed by her sister Lejeric Harles, 70, at the municipal nursing home in Port-au-Prince, Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2010. Private donors and the nursing home director have brought occasional food deliveries, but the patients lying outdoors say they have been hungry since the Jan. 12 quake. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd) #

Gay Maclaire (right) sets up a wireless modem at his new internet cafe at a makeshift camp in Port-au-Prince, Haiti January 30, 2010. After the earthquake destroyed Maclaire's internet business, he recovered some of the equipment and started an internet cafe at a makeshift camp in front of the damage presidential palace, where he lives with his family. (REUTERS/Carlos Barria) #

Orphan girls are seen at the Foyer de Sion orphanage January 31, 2010 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Child-smuggling was a problem in Haiti even before the earthquake, with thousands of children disappearing every year. Ten Americans were recently arrested while attempting to transport 33 Haitian children across the border to the Dominican Republic. (Mario Tama/Getty Images) #
More links and information
Amid Earthquake’s Ruins, Signs of Revival in Haiti - NYTimes.com, 1/27
As Aftershocks Continue, Haiti Ponders Rebuilding - NYTimes.com, 1/28
Food Distribution Retooled; Americans Arrested - NYTimes.com, 1/30
Haiti - NYTimes.com Topics page