Fears Grow of Looming Crisis in Haiti

(04 May 08 -RV)Haiti faces a "major crisis" if international donors fail to provide urgent aid to help feed its poor.The World Food Programme has launched an alarm saying that 66 percent of Haitians live on less than $1 dollar a day and 47 percent are undernourished. Barbara Wright of the Catholic Medical Mission Board says that disease linked to malnourishment is also putting the world’s poorest nation’s weakened health system under severe strain...