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A Billion Hungry for EU Action!

Activista Activists outside the EU Foreign Ministers' meeting in Luxembourg, 14 June 2010. ©ActionAid ItaliaEmma Hughes in Luxembourg

Monday June 14

Actvista campaigners from across Europe gathered to demand that the EU keep its promise to halve hunger by 2015, a promise that was made ten years ago but has simply not been kept.

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Confusion in Haiti's Camps

Children in the Marini camp, part of a suburb of Port-au-Prince. ©Charles Eckert/ActionAidAnjali Kwatra in Port au Prince

Wednesday February 10

As well as being desperate for food, water and shelter, survivors of the earthquake in Haiti are also desperate for information about what will happen to them.

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Jhonnley Joseph was in his mother's arms when she died...

Jhonnley Joseph's mother died in when a wall collapsed on him during the 7.0 earthquake on January 12, 2010. He was in her arms at the time. ©Charles Eckert/ActionAidAnjali Kwatra in Port au Prince

Wednesday 3rd Febuary

Everyone I have met in Haiti in the past few days knows someone who died in the earthquake. Many lost several family members.

But some of the hardest stories to hear are those of children who have lost one or both parents...

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Haiti lacks the medical facilities but people are struggling to cope

Itson Darius, 4, lays in an outdoor hospital bed at the Hospital Universitaire De La Pax, nine days after having his left leg amputated above the knee. ActionAid interviewed Itson's mother Maryse Lindor and the video can be seen in this article. ©Charles Eckert/ActionAid ActionAidAnjali Kwatra in Port au Prince

Tuesday 2nd February 2010

I went to two hospitals today with the ActionAid team who are looking at how we can provide long term help to people who have been left disabled by the earthquake.

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Port-au-Prince 3 weeks after the earthquake

A destroyed street near Mariani, Port-au-Prince. ©Charles Eckert/ActionAid.Anjali Kwatra in Port au Prince Monday 1st February 2010 Despite having been in close contact with colleagues in Haiti every day since the earthquake I didn’t really have a sense of what Port-au-Prince would be like nearly three weeks on.

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