Save the Children CEO Arrives in Haiti

 Charles MacCormack, president and CEO of Save the Children in Westport, arrived in Haiti today as part of U.N. Secretary- General Ban Ki-moon's delegation to accelerate the delivery of aid to the most vulnerable children and families, according to a news release.

Save the Children works to help children in need throughout the world. The organization has been working in Haiti for 25 years and continues to send extra staff and supplies to help in the recovery effort since Tuesday's earthquake.

"It is a race against time to get food, water and medical supplies to the people who for five days now have received very little aid," MacCormack said in the release. "However, even in the most challenging of situations, Save the Children has been able to deliver urgently needed food, water and medical supplies."

Sunday, a 20-foot container sent from Save the Children's warehouse in the Dominican Republic was delivered to Hope Hospital in Port-au-Prince, allowing the organization to provide more than 2,000 people not only with food and water as well as medical and hygiene supplies.

Save the Children also is working to set-up "Child Friendly Spaces" in areas where families have been setting up camp.  These areas will ensure the safety of children in the camps and give them the opportunity to play and begin to recover from the death, injury and destruction they have witnessed, and the lack of necessities they have endured.

Since the earthquake on January 12, Save the Children's staff members in Haiti have been responding to the immediate needs of children and families.  The aid agency has worked in Haiti for more than 25 years and has close to 200 staff members in the country.  

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Click here to learn more about the emergency response to the earthquake in Haiti.