[cnn-photo-caption image=http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2010/images/01/25/cahaiti.jpg caption="Christiane – reporting from Port-au-Prince"]
Christiane is in Haiti, where she's reporting on relief and rebuilding. She anchors AMANPOUR. live from Haiti every day on CNN at 2100 CET. Here are her updates from the ground:
- January 26: Huge tragedy for Haiti children: the quake crumbled half nation's schools and three main universities destroyed or damaged. Spoke to three girls age 11 and 13. They’re still afraid and traumatized from seeing so much death and destroyed buildings. They’re desperate to get back to school and see friends and teachers. But the Education Minister tells me the government is still trying to figure out how to get classes reconvened in tents or wherever... they think the very earliest would be sometime in March.
- January 25: What Haiti needs now – a Future
- January 25: I’m in a Gap garment factory in Haiti right now. Workers back at work making t-shirts for US. Vital. Main thing right now is creating jobs. For long term, garment industry could be engine of Haiti’s economic recovery. Companies giving workers food. Main worry from factories: if they can't get up and running quickly, buyers in the US will go elsewhere. The President of the Associaton of Haitian Manufacturers tells me $25m in soft loans now will revive the whole Haitian garment industry. 28,000 workers and massive trickle down effect.
- January 24: Drove over mountains in Haiti to Jacmel on the Caribbean coast; Canadians to the rescue there. En route saw sides sheared off mountains leaving great white gashes. And saw busses stuffed with people getting out of the capital to countryside.
- January 23: A 24 year old man pulled from rubble today – 11 days later. Incredible.
- January 23: There are tent cities springing up here in Haiti: the government and aid workers are trying to relocate 400,000 people out of these tent cities and out of the city
- January 22: I see people lined up at the passport office here in downtown Port-au-Prince – trying to renew passports and trying to get out of Haiti.
- January 22: Landed in Haiti. Airport looks more under control. Saw lots of people in line, outside of the airport, trying to leave Haiti.
- January 21: In Santo Domingo. On my way to Haiti.
- January 21: In New Jersey headed to Santo Domingo
- January 20: I'm going to Haiti to investigate how the country can RISE LIKE A PHOENIX from these ashes into something even better. This devastating horrible tragedy just might also be a rare chance to do right by Haiti, and rebuild, as Europe and Japan rebuilt their shattered nations after World War II