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ckstrong 8:52am Sat Jan 16

Family VOA Creole Sets Up Hotline for Haitians to Reach Relatives VOA News 14 January 2010

http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/VOA-Creole-Sets-Up-Hotline-for-Hait...

VOA's Creole Service has set up a hotline to help Haitians everywhere reach their loved ones, after Tuesday's devastating earthquake destroyed much of the capital, Port-au-Prince.

People can call the Creole service at 202-205-9942 to leave messages for their family members that will be broadcast on the service's radio programs. Messages can be left in either Creole or English.

Creole service chief Ronald Cesar says VOA Creole also has extended its broadcast hours and is reaching out on Facebook and Twitter.

VOA continues to broadcast on shortwave. But because most of its satellite affiliates in Haiti are off the air, the Creole service also is using a Florida-based AM frequency to reach listeners in the country.

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djames

djames 9:20am Sat Jan 16

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/staying-connected-in-post-earthqu...

Staying connected in post-earthquake Haiti 1/15/2010 05:26:00 PM

"With relief efforts underway, many displaced Haitians and their friends and families around the world are deeply concerned about the safety and whereabouts of loved ones. In response to the Haitian earthquake, a team of Googlers worked with the U.S. Department of State to create an online People Finder gadget so that people can submit information about missing persons and to search the database...

You'll find this gadget on our Haiti earthquake response website as well as on the State Department website. In order to prevent the proliferation of multiple missing persons databases (a big problem during Hurricane Katrina), we've made the People Finder gadget standards-based and easily embeddable on any website (see here for instructions). The gadget is currently available in English, French and Creole.

We're also helping families in the U.S. stay connected with their loved ones in Haiti by offering free calls to Haiti for the next two weeks via Google Voice. If you don't have a Google Voice account already, request an invitation at www.google.com/voice.

For anyone interested in viewing updated imagery in Google Earth, we've now included GeoEye's shots from Wednesday in the Historical Imagery feature. Now you can view the imagery without downloading the KML file and can use the time slider to easily compare the stark before-and-after images, such as those below. To help relief organizations, GeoEye has made professional-quality files of their recent satellite imagery of Haiti downloadable via our earthquake response website. We hope the imagery in this format will be valuable to GIS organizations and aid workers."

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