Letter from Haiti
by Juan Carlos Rincón-Domínguez, ECHO Regional Information Officer for Latin America and the Caribbean
Port au Prince, 3 February 2010
A top priority is to reorganise Haiti's health care system. All the European teams we spoke to say the same thing: a medical network needs urgently to be established linking the temporary shelters, field hospitals, boroughs and the main hospitals that survived the earthquake.
Central African Republic: Malnutrition Blamed on Diamonds
A dramatic increase in malnutrition in the fertile south-west corner of the Central African Republic has been blamed on the collapse of the international diamond price.
The one hundred or so people gathered for treatment at a feeding centre in the small town of Boda in the south-west of the Central African Republic have probably never seen a diamond. However, their current fate is linked closely to this high value stone which is mined outside the town and sold on international markets.
Crisis Correspondent: Karen's interviewIrish student Karen Reidy, winner of the "Crisis Correspondent – Reporting from Uganda" competition was interviewed during her trip to the country and tells us a little about her experience. Now back in Ireland, she is preparing her video report. |
Winner of ECHO ‘Crisis Correspondent' Announced
Karen Proves She Has What it Takes
Kilkenny student Karen Reidy was announced as the winner of the ‘Crisis Correspondent – Reporting from Uganda’ competition. The competition, supported by GOAL and Concern, was open to over 135,000 third level students in Ireland.
Karen reached the finals with three other contestants: Tina Brescanu, Eimear Hannon and Stephen Rudden. Karen was pronounced the winner in Dublin on 7/12/09.
