Today Network News: 8 February 2010 - Nearly a month after a magnitude 7 earthquake shook the capital, Port-au-Prince, Haiti's L'Ouverture International Airport never sleeps. Flights full of supplies continue to arrive 24 hours a day. It has been almost a month since a magnitude 7 earthquake, the capital of Port-au-Prince. UNICEF's warehouse was destroyed in the quake, but his newly-built warehouse is a beehive of activity. Apart from supply to arrive by plane, someArrival on the street and from the neighboring Dominican Republic. SoundBite (English) Sebastien Laplanche, logistics specialist, UNICEF: We get requests sent from the log-base From the various programs in water supply and sanitation, protection, (in WASH) and when we receive that we will prepare the order and we make sure that they leave as quickly as possible to the partners and to the camps. Unpacking, repacking and distributing hundreds of tons of supplies is a mammoth task requires carefulCoordination. About 50 locals have been employed to speed up deliveries, many of them lost everything, what happened in the earthquake and the job their lifeline, theyre also determined to help their fellow Haitians. When a truck leaves, another comes and goes on the frenetic activity. Deliveries goal camps and day care in the affected areas throughout Haiti. .................................................. .................................................. ............ (UNITEDNATIONS CHILDREN ...
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