Wall Street Gives Millions to Haiti Relief Efforts

The US military has pulled thousands of its troops from quake-hit Haiti because aid operations have improved, a general said, as relief workers raced to boost conditions at squalid camps.There were growing calls to speed up efforts to provide tarps and tents ahead of the rainy season, which threatens to bring more misery to the estimated 1.2 million left homeless by the massive earthquake a month ago.

Quake survivors in Haiti clamored for supplies of food, water and medicine as aid began to trickle in and thousands more US troops were due to join beleaguered relief efforts Monday.Five days after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake flattened much of the impoverished Caribbean nation 70,000 bodies had been buried in mass graves and international aid workers were struggling to cope with the scale of the crisis.Several hundred thousand people have been made homeless and officials fear the eventual death toll could top 200,000.

The earthquake all but flattened colonial Lima, the shaking so violent that people tossed to the ground couldn’t get back up. Minutes later, a 15-meter wall of Pacific Ocean crashed into the adjacent port of Callao, killing all but 200 of its 5,000 inhabitants. Bodies washed ashore for weeks. Plenty of earthquakes have shaken Peru’s capital in the 266 years since that fateful night of Oct. 28, 1746, though none with anything near the violence.

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Tiger Woods plans to help with relief efforts in earthquake-stricken Haiti, the president of the Tiger Woods Foundation said Friday.Greg McLaughlin said the foundation staff was evaluating "the most appropriate role" to help the Haitian people."Our plan is be part of the relief effort to help rebuild Haiti by supporting organizations that provide critical resources to young people, which is consistent with our mission and previous efforts regarding Hurricane Rita, Hurricane Katrina and the 2004 tsunami," McLaughlin said in a statement.