Haiti Humanitarian Need Competes With Recovery Plan

March 31, 2010, Reuters — While a U.N. summit in New York on Wednesday will aim to raise an initial $3.8 billion for the impoverished Caribbean nation's recovery, an appeal by the world body for $1.4 billion in humanitarian aid is 52 percent short of its goal.

The initial appeal by the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs for $575 million was met within a month, but when the call for funding was later more than doubled, the donations slowed to a trickle.

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