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The response to the 2010 Haiti earthquake included national governments, charitable and for-profit organizations from around the world which began coordinating humanitarian aid designed to help the Haitian people. Some countries arranged to send relief and rescue workers and humanitarian supplies directly to the earthquake damage zones, while others sought to organize national fund raising to provide monetary support for the nonprofit groups working directly in Haiti. OCHA coordinates and tracks this on a daily basis.〔("Haiti earthquake aid pledged by country" ), ''The Guardian'', 14 January 2010.〕 The information is disseminated through the UN news and information portal, ReliefWeb. As of September 5, 2013, ReliefWeb have reported a total relief funding of $3.5 billion given (and a further $1 billion pledged but not given).〔Reliefweb: Haiti Earthquakes funding tracker http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/fts.nsf/doc105?OpenForm&rc=2&emid=EQ-2010-000009-HTI〕 A number of countries sent large contingents of disaster relief, medical staff, technicians for reconstruction and security personnel. Notably, the governments of the United States, the UK, Israel, the Dominican Republic, Canada, Brazil, Italy and Cuba〔Tom Fawthrop. ("Cuba's Aid Ignored By The Media?" ), AlJazeera.net, February 16, 2010. With a total of 930 health professionals, Cuba initially sent the largest medical contingent to Haiti. Another group of 200 Cuban-trained doctors from twenty-four countries in Africa and Latin American, and a dozen American doctors who graduated from medical schools in Havana, went to Haiti to provide reinforcement to existing Cuban medical teams. By comparison, the internationally renowned Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF or Doctors without Borders) had approximately 269 health professionals working in Haiti. MSF is much better funded and has far more extensive medical supplies than the Cuban team. One of the extraordinary features of media coverage of the international response is that most western media more or less ignored the huge Cuban role despite official praise from PAHO,WHO and UNICEF. http://www.projectcensored.org/12-cuba-provided-the-greatest-medical-aid-to-haiti-after-the-earthquake/ Retrieved July 14, 2010.〕 sent over 1,000 military and disaster relief personnel each, with the United States being by far the largest single contributor to the relief efforts. The international community also committed numerous major assets such as field hospitals, naval vessels, a hospital ship, aircraft carriers, transport aircraft and emergency facilities soon after the extent of the disaster became apparent. Dominican Republic was the first country to mobilize resources to aid and rescue Haiti immediately after the earthquake. Progress in responding to the earthquake was hampered by a number of factors, including loss of life, a number of aftershocks, destroyed infrastructures, collapsed buildings blocking streets, the lack of electricity for gasoline station pumps, loss of the capital's seaport, and loss of air traffic control facilities. The damage to the Haitian government ministries, all of which suffered varying degrees of facilitys' destruction and personnel deaths, impeded coordination of the disaster response. In April 2010, the Haitian government asked that food distribution in the Pétionville camp cease in order to allow the normal economy to resume.〔 〕 == Appeals for aid == Appeals for international aid were immediately requested by Raymond Joseph, Haiti's ambassador to the United States and his nephew, singer Wyclef Jean,〔("Appeals for aid after quake strikes Haiti" ). CNN. 13 January 2010〕 The American Red Cross quickly announced that it had run out of supplies in Haiti and appealed for public donations. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Humanitarian response to the 2010 Haiti earthquake」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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