USAID to Haiti

US Navy Delivers Aid to remote communities

(Media-Newswire.com) - Washington

The United States is sending $19.5 million in humanitarian aid to Haiti to help victims of four tropical storms that struck the small Caribbean nation in less than 30 days.Tropical storms Fay and Hanna and hurricanes Gustav and Ike have affected an estimated 600,000 people in nine of Haiti's 10 departments ( regions ), according to the U.S. Agency for International Development ( USAID ).

The storms killed an estimated 328 people in the country and left 114,000 people displaced from their homes. Many of the homes were destroyed or damaged, according to a USAID fact sheet.So far, the Navy vessel USS Kearsarge has delivered an estimated 466 metric tons of emergency food and other supplies and some 5,867 liters of water to Haiti, according to a September 13 Navy press release.