Aid workers say six weeks after storms Haiti begins to stabilize

Published: 2004-10-28

ORLANDO, Fla. (CNS) -- Six weeks after Tropical Storm Jeanne swept through Haiti, devastating northwestern portions of the country, the situation had begun to stabilize, and humanitarian nongovernmental organizations were providing relief, aid workers said. "Cleanup operations remain one of the major challenges of rehabilitation and need strong coordination between the (Haitian) government, the United Nations and the humanitarian partners," Sheyla Biamby, spokeswoman for Catholic Relief Services in Haiti told The Florida Catholic, newspaper for six dioceses in Florida. "While minor cleaning-up efforts are taking place in major streets within Gonaives, people living along the roadsides are also actively cleaning their homes and piling up the mud back into the streets," Biamby said in an e-mail interview Oct. 25. She said the process would take four to six months.

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