British actress Sienna Miller has blogged from Haiti about the work that still needs to be done following January’s earthquake.
“I came to Haiti as an ambassador for International Medical Corps, an organization that I have been working with for over a year," she wrote in the Huffington Post. "Their teams arrived 22 hours after the devastating earthquake of January 12 and have been a powerful and leading medical presence ever since.
“We flew the following morning to Port-au-Prince and were met in the chaos by Andy Gleadle, our operations director, (the kind of ‘man mountain’ that you hope to be around in disaster zones like this one) and were briefed on the security issues we potentially faced. For starters, the local jail was destroyed in the quake, and as a result, 5,000 prisoners are free and roaming the streets. There were serious security problems in Haiti before the earthquake, but of course everything has now intensified. Three NGO workers were kidnapped last week…
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