A boy carried a chair he salvaged from his flooded house in the city of Gonaives after Hurricane Ike hit Haiti on Monday. The hurricane left dozens dead in Haiti.
(Yuri Cortez/ AFP/ Getty Images)
Boston-area Haitians to mount 'massive relief drive'
600,000 in need of hurricane aid
A boy carried a chair he salvaged from his flooded house in the city of Gonaives after Hurricane Ike hit Haiti on Monday. The hurricane left dozens dead in Haiti.
(Yuri Cortez/ AFP/ Getty Images)
Muddy floodwaters now flow through neighborhoods and despair is everywhere, especially on the rooftops of battered homes, where residents sit and wait for help. Hundreds have died, and the death toll is expected to rise as Haiti, the poorest country in the Western hemisphere, digs out from a string of hurricanes. (Full article: 622 words)
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