0641 GMT

Another urgent request for help from three orphanages in Port-au-Prince within a mile of Port-au-Prince. Joanne Stocker of Help Haiti Heal has updates on both:

The orphanages are Foyer Notre Dame Nativite in Fonta Mara Orphanage, Foyer Notre Dame Nativite in Fonta Mara Orphanage and Foyer des Filles de Dieu Orphanage (Home for the Girls of God). If you have any means of getting these children out of harms way and providing them with more supplies, please do so.

Haiti: Josh Shahryar’s News LiveBlog (20/21 January)

(This request is especially intended for the US troops who’ve been helping out greatly with the search and rescue efforts, as well as other relief efforts inside the Haitian Capital.)

If you would like to help – and it would be greatly appreciated – please check the full information on these orphanages by CLICK HERE or contacting Joanne of Help Haiti Heal.

Please help if you can – at least 55 little girls have already died in these orphanages in the past few days.

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0255 GMT

Another amazing story of survival and miracles from today in Haiti. CNN’s AC360 reports:

A five-year-old boy named Monley was found alive in the rubble of his home today. His mother was killed and his father is missing. Monley was taken to a hospital where doctors say he has no broken bones, but he is suffering from severe dehydration.

Haiti: Josh Shahryar’s Humanitarian LiveBlog (20/21 January)

Anderson was at the hospital when Monley arrived this afternoon. He got details on the rescue from his family.

“The uncle was actually searching through the rubble, looking for the dead body of his brother, this boy’s father. The uncle, with four of his friends, not some international search and rescue team, pulled out the little boy,” Anderson reported earlier today.

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EA’s Josh Shahryar updates on overnight developments on the humanitarian front in Haiti, complementing his News LiveBlog:

0450 GMT

Doctors Without Broders (MSF) has released a video showing there activities on the ground in Haiti. (Warning, the images are disturbing.)

0409 GMT

Doctors Without Borders (MSF) report on their day’s work in Haiti:

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EA’s Josh Shahryar brings the overnight news from Haiti, complemeting his latest updates on the humanitarian situation:

0500 GMT

The Los Angeles Times has another touching story of a rescue attempt in Haiti:

Newspapers in Mexico this morning carried a happy item about Mexican officials in Haiti finding one of their countrymen who had been missing in the ruins for nearly a week.

But the tale didn’t mention that it was Times correspondent Tracy Wilkinson who came across the victim and relayed his whereabouts to Mexican diplomatic officials here in Mexico City.

Carlos Peralta, a Spanish teacher living in Port-au-Prince, lay writhing in pain on a salvaged pew outside a church when Wilkinson found him Sunday while she was reporting on prayer services in the quake-ravaged city.

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Josh Shahryar with the latest from the humanitarian effort in Haiti, alongside his LiveBlog of the most recent news:

0837 GMT

The people of Gaza held a fundraiser for the people of Haiti today. They are sending, money, medicine, blankets and other supplies. Hopefully, Israel will help in getting these supplies to Haiti. (The report is from Press TV in Iran.)

0800 GMT

As people in Haiti continue to hastily bury victims of the earthquake for fear of health risks, BBC reports on the myths and realities of the supposed health risk and the emotional trauma hasty burials will cause the family of the victims:

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Latest updates….

0306 GMT

Songs for Haiti benefit Concert to be held in Portland, Oregon.

Thursday, January 21, 2010
7:30 pm – Aladdin Theater, 3017 SE Milwaukie Avenue, Portland
$30 all tickets – available through Ticketmaster – tickets go on sale 10 am Tuesday!!

Appearing in performance will be pianist Thomas Lauderdale (of Pink Martini), Cool Nutz, Portland Cello Project, Grammy nominated pianist Janice Scroggins, Holcombe Waller. Oregon Symphony concertmaster Jun Iwasaki, with pianist Grace Fong, Broadway veteran, baritone Douglas Webster, Flash Choir, PHAME.  and the Grant High School Royal Blues … and Portland sensation Storm Large! Also additional musical guests from genres including classical, indie rock/pop and hip-hop.

Stephen Marc Beaudoin and Tom Sessa are event co-producers.

Haiti: Josh Shahryar’s News LiveBlog (17-18 January)

0300 GMT

Do you have American Express Membership points, feel generous and feel like helping Haiti? Well, the International Rescue Committe can help. IRC tweets:

For every 1,000 Membership Rewards points, AmericanExpress will donate $10 to IRC or your charity of choice in Haiti.

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Latest updates….

0335 GMT

CBS has an extremely informative video on the condition inside Haiti today. Please beware, the images are gut-wrenchingly depressing. Do not watch it if you have already seen enough. Best option is to fast forward the first 2/3s of the video.

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0326 GMT

TimesOnline reports on medical challenges on the ground in Haiti and immigration hassles for Haitian children who are being evacuated to the US:

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0700 GMT

There is now a Facebook group for people trying to find news about their loved ones in the aftermath of the tragedy in Haiti. You can join this group if you have a Facebook account by visiting their page here. If the link does not work, please search for “Haiti Earthquake” on Facebook and you will be directed to it.

0512 GMT

Haiti Medical has released a list of working hospitals in Port-au-Prince, Jacmel and other cities in Haiti.

Haiti: Josh Shahryar’s News LiveBlog (16-17 January)

Port-au-Prince:

• Hopital de l’ Universite d’Etat d’Haiti
  Rue Monseigneur Guilloux
  Port-au-Prince, HAITI
  Phone: 509-222-1221  or  509-223-4254

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