Catholic Relief Services (CRS), which has worked in Haiti for over 50 years and has a permanent staff of more than 300 there, has committed at least $25 million for relief and recovery.

As CRS works to get more aid into the country—via air, sea and overland from the Dominican Republic—staff are setting up primary medical care facilities and delivering hygiene kits and plastic sheeting, along with limited amounts of food and water, to a number of informal camps that have sprung up around the city.

Catholic Relief Services began turning a Port-au-Prince golf course into one of the first formal camps for the displaced.

On the ground, CRS is working with partners from Caritas, the international Catholic aid network, to coordinate its aid response. The agency is also joining aid groups in working with the United Nations as it becomes functional following the destruction of its headquarters and the death of many of its personnel in the 7.0 magnitude quake.

-January 19, 2010

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