A Swedish teacher working in Berlin has been arrested on suspicion of abusing children, many of whom were victims of the 2010 Haiti earthquake. Read the full story
Posted on 21 April 2011.
A Swedish teacher working in Berlin has been arrested on suspicion of abusing children, many of whom were victims of the 2010 Haiti earthquake. Read the full story
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Posted on 01 December 2010.
This week, Icelandic Water Holdings sent 42 tons of bottled water to Haiti. People there have experienced great distress in the wake of the earthquake early this year Read the full story
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Posted on 31 July 2010.
Two medically-trained Icelandic Red Cross volunteers will become the latest in a long line of Red Cross crisis workers from Iceland in Haiti when they set off this coming Monday. Read the full story
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Posted on 11 February 2010.
The Reykjavik City Welfare Board confirmed today it wants to welcome refugees from the recent earthquake in Haiti. Read the full story
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Posted on 28 January 2010.
Iceland’s Minister for Justice and Human Rights is looking into whether Haitian refugees can be brought to Iceland. Read the full story
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Posted on 24 January 2010.
Norwegian doctors are in Haiti helping victims of the earthquake and the Norwegian Red Cross has set up a hospital near the Port au Prince airport, which has been operating in unbearably hot temperatures with inadequate air conditioning. New air conditioning units are now on site provided by the Icelandic Red Cross. Read the full story
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Posted on 21 January 2010.
It has not yet been decided when the official search and rescue effort in Haiti will end, but the head of the USA team said yesterday that unofficially it already has. Two siblings were, however, found alive yesterday in the rubble of Port au Prince. Read the full story
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Posted on 20 January 2010.
A charity concert will take place this evening at Reykjavik’s Nasa nightclub with performances from many of Iceland’s biggest music stars, both new and old. Reykjavik City Council has also pledged money to support Haiti. News of today’s massive aftershock, measuring 6.1 on the Richter Scale, has only heightened the need for such fundraising. Read the full story
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Posted on 20 January 2010.
“A producer called me asking for video footage of our search and rescue team,” says Olof Snaeholm Baldursdottir, the ICE SAR information officer. Read the full story
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Posted on 14 January 2010.
The Icelandic International Search and Rescue Team has started work in Haiti. Two teams are searching the rubble of the four-storey Caribbean Market shopping centre in Port au Prince, and have already pulled two people out alive. At least one more is thought to remain alive inside. Read the full story
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