Immigration: Haitian Capital

Slow Pace Dept: Shock: At 4:53 p.m. on Jan. 12, 2010, a magnitude 7.0 earthquake strikes near the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince. Over the next five weeks, there are 59 aftershocks, including 16 with magnitudes of 5.0 or greater. One, a 6.0, hits seven minutes after the first on Jan. 12, according to Montreal Gazette. Donations: Individual Canadians donated $220 million for Haitian relief to charity groups in the last year. The federal government's total new commitments to Haitian relief since the quake stands at $550.15 million. Of the $5.3 billion U.S. pledged in March by donor nations around the world, including Canada, for Haiti's 2010-11 reconstruction, only half, $2.6 billion U.S., has been allocated in donor countries' budgets. The slow pace of aid delivery has been blamed on global bureaucracy and a lack of physical resources and policy-makers in Haiti and nATION IS DEVASTATED Deaths: The Haitian government estimates 222,570 people died including 58 Canadians but others peg the toll at 250,000; 300,572 people are injured and 1.3 million people among Haiti's population of 9.6 million are homeless. As reported in the news.
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