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Bringing Hope to Haiti's Mud-Ravaged
Streets
By Niurka Piñeiro, Regional Information
Officer for the Western Hemisphere, reporting from Haiti
I am very lucky because there was no
death in my family. I could be dead, my family too." Smith Archélus,
IOM Emergency Operations Assistant in Haiti's western city of Gonaïves
recalls the night of September 1st when he and his wife heard the neighbours
scream: 'Wake up, wake up, the water is coming.' They grabbed their two
children and took shelter on a nearby roof.
After the waters subsided, Archélus sent