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January 19, 2010
 

AUDIO: Louis Belanger on Oxfam's trying efforts to distribute water (ENGLISH)

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The lack of fuel continues to make water distribution difficult for the Oxfam team here. However, staff  worked hard to find new water distribution locations and solve the fuel issue. I know there are reports of some riots and violence in the news, but so far I have not seen anything like that. I'm back at Oxfam House now, here in Port-au-Prince and the team will be back at it tomorrow.

Sorry, about the way it just cuts out at the end. My phone stopped working. As I mention in the podcast, mobile service is still vulnerable.

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Posted by Louis Belanger 

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January 18, 2010
 

Tight airspace, poor communications hinder aid effort | CNN

Doctors Without Borders reported that flights carrying critical medical equipment were being diverted to the neighboring Dominican Republic. Oxfam warned that fuel shortages could be on the horizon. And a volunteer at a hospital in northern Haiti said he has large numbers of open beds, but no way to get patients there from Port-au-Prince.
"My surgeons are sitting around looking at each other, wondering why they came," Tim Traynor told CNN.

While visiting the injured at a U.N. clinic in Port-au-Prince, Haitian President Rene Preval said his ravaged population -- already the Western Hemisphere's poorest -- needs medicine, food and long-term reconstruction assistance.

"The more we receive help, the more we can take care of them," he said.

Louis Belanger, a spokesman for Oxfam in Port-au-Prince, said many roads have been cleared of debris since the magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck Haiti on Tuesday. That has allowed trucks to deliver aid to parts of the capital and its suburbs that had been cut off by collapsed buildings.

But with thousands of tons of aid heading into Haiti, the airport in Port-au-Prince "can't handle all the aid that's coming through," Belanger said.

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January 18, 2010
 

AUDIO: Louis Belanger on Oxfam's trying efforts to distribute water (FRENCH)

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Un pod un peu plus difficile ce soir, la fatigue s'accumule et ce fut une journee frustrante pour nous a Oxfam. Je termine le pod avec une touche personelle. Ce qu'on voit tout les jours, cette souffrance mais aussi la determination des Haitiens, ca nous touche.

Podcast is a little harder tonight. Fatigue accumulates and it was a frustrating day for us at Oxfam. I get a bit personal at the end. It is inexplicable what we see everyday, the pain, but also determination of the Haitians affects us.

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January 18, 2010
 

VIDEO: Update from Port-au-Prince, Haiti via skype (ENGLISH)

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I've been with the team here for 2 days. Everyone is working incredibly hard but facing great obstacles including poor communications and a lack of fuel. I recorded this over Skype while on a quick break from interviews. Please, use it on your posts and share with others.

The first try didn't have audio I was told, but @karinab in Oxford fixed up the sound. Sorry about that. It's hard to get good quality as you can imagine.

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