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Q: What is your name and position? I’m Tom Carnegie, I’m the head of the shelter program for the Canadian Red Cross in Haiti. Q: Describe your role? Well, the head of shelter is responsible for developing the overall program, the overall shelter response program for Haiti in the working areas that we’ve taken on. […]

Q: What were your priorities when you landed in Haiti? The main priorities for me, more particularly, for the logistics team, is pretty similar in every operation. In Haiti, it focused very much around looking at the operational priorities, and the initial operation priorities were water and health. To get the emergency response units into […]

Q: How did you hear about the earthquake? I was actually looking for a condo, because I just came back to Ottawa and I was looking at buying a condo and I was visiting the first one, I narrowed down my house searching, and the cab driver asked me, “Did you hear about the earthquake […]

Q: When did you arrive in Haiti? I was one of the first there. I arrived within 48 hours of the earthquake. Q: Where were you when you heard about the earthquake? I was in Los Angeles, California, my home. And I have a service that many disaster relief workers have, that sends out SMS […]

Q: Where were you when the earthquake struck? When the earthquake hit in Haiti, I was sleeping at my home in Oslo, Norway. It was about 11:30 at night. As part of the Global Alert System for Disasters and the Red Cross world, I get these alerts on my mobile phone. My mobile phone started […]

At 4:53 pm on January 12 2010, the worst earthquake to hit the Caribbean in 200 years struck the impoverished nation of Haiti. The epicentre of the 7.0-magnitude earthquake was only 25 kilometres from the country’s capital, Port-au-Prince; the devastation was massive and immediate. Click the play button on our map below to track the […]

Government of Haiti: “Action Plan for National Recovery and Development of Haiti: Immediate Key Initiatives for the Future” (PDF) Government of the Republic of Haiti. March 2010. “AP: Haiti gov’t getting little U.S. quake aid” Usatoday.com. 28 January 2010. Carmichael, Lachlan. “Clinton, Preval urge quick Haiti elections” Google.com/hostednews/afp. 9 March 2010. Charles, Jacqueline. “Haitian government […]

Explore the “best of the best” of the hundreds of photos shot by our team in Haiti, all available under a Creative Commons license.

From rescue operations to survival tactics, see where key moments from the earthquake’s aftermath unfolded around Port-au-Prince. Embed this on your site   This Flash piece is 705 x 500. To embed it in your site, copy and paste the following code. <script type=”text/javascript”> var file=”video_map.swf”; var width = 705; var height = 500; </script> […]