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Haiti relief, one week on


January 19, 2010
By Kathleen Sands Adams
IRC emergency director Gillian Dunn assesses damage in downtown Port-au-Prince, Haiti Photo: Brian Casey

IRC emergency director Gillian Dunn assesses damage in downtown Port-au-Prince, Haiti Photo: Brian Casey

"We have thousands of people who are sleeping in the open air. Towards dusk as you go towards the city, you see thousands and thousands of people starting to lay cinder blocks across the roads and then lay sheets out onto the roads so they can sleep there during the night. So shelter is the primary concern.”
- Gillian Dunn, IRC emergency response director, speaking with The Takeaway on NPR this morning from Port-au-Prince, Haiti.  (Her interview starts 3 minutes in.) Read our Haiti Crisis special report   l  Text to give + more ways to help
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