Thursday, January 21, 2010
6:03PM EST: Husband finds his wife in the rubble after 6 days:
2:40 PM EST: A Moment Of Joy In Haiti
An uplifting moment captured by a photographer in Haiti last night as a young boy named Kiki was lifted from the rubble he had been trapped under for 8 days.
1:35 PM EST: Haiti To Relocate 400,000 Homeless
Haiti is planning to house 400,000 earthquake survivors in new tented villages outside the capital, Port-au-Prince, officials have announced.
Interior Minister Paul Antoine Bien-Aime said 100,000 people would initially be sent to 10 settlements near the suburb of Croix Des Bouquets.
He gave no timeframe, but said the moves would start as soon as possible.
An estimated 1.5 million people were left homeless by the 7.0-magnitude quake, which killed as many as 200,000.
At least 75,000 bodies have so far been buried in mass graves, the government has said. Many more remain uncollected in the streets. TO READ MORE, CLICK HERE
11:50 AM EST: iPhone Saved My Life
U.S. filmmaker Dan Woolley was shooting a documentary about the impact of poverty in Haiti when the earthquake struck. He could have died, but he ultimately survived with the help of an iPhone first-aid app that taught him to treat his wounds.
After being crushed by a pile of rubble, Woolley used his digital SLR to illuminate his surroundings and snap photos of the wreckage in search of a safe place to dwell. He took refuge in an elevator shaft, where he followed instructions from an iPhone first-aid app to fashion a bandage and tourniquet for his leg and to stop the bleeding from his head wound, according to an MSNBC story.
The app even warned Woolley not to fall asleep if he felt he was going into shock, so he set his cellphone’s alarm clock to go off every 20 minutes. Sixty-five hours
