pretty comprehensive update/overview of relief efforts via the NYT

[cali]

Struggle to Bring Relief Continues in Haiti
Damon Winter/The New York Times


By MARC LACEY
Published: January 16, 2010

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Desperation in this battered country seemed to grow by the hour on Saturday as relief workers searched for survivors buried in the rubble and struggled to distribute huge stockpiles of aid to victims of the earthquake.


Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton was scheduled to fly into Haiti’s capital later on Saturday, where she will hold a news conference with the Haitian president, René Préval.

An immense relief operation was under way, with cargo planes and military helicopters buzzing over the crowded Toussaint Louverture International Airport. But four days after the earthquake struck, with many cries for help going silent, not nearly enough search and rescue teams or emergency supplies could make it here. The United Nations said it had fed 8,000 people, while two million to three million people remained in dire need.

Patience was wearing thin, and reports of looting increased, as another day went by with no power and limited fresh water.

“For the moment, this is anarchy,” said Adolphe Reynald, a top aide to the mayor of Port-au-Prince, as he supervised a makeshift first aid center that was registering long lines of wounded people but had no medicine to treat them. “There’s nothing we can do. We’re out here to show that we care,
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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/17/world/americas/17haiti.html