How is the City of Leogane doing after Haiti Earthquake?

The town in Haiti that receives the most damages in the earthquake is not Port au Prince, but Leogane. The city of Leogane is situated about 20 miles outside of Port-au-Prince. The city was near the epicenter of Haiti's catastrophic Jan. 12 earthquake.

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Some 80 percent of Leogane was destroyed, but at the Lamb Center Ministries' Children Center Home, they're still singing about joy.

The people of Leogane has little hope that the Haitian Government along with the International community will help rebuilt their city.

The international community delivers USAID-donated cooking oil, flour, peas and bulgur to about 7,000 people a day. Over several days, they provide everyone in camps in Leogane with food rations that should last for a month.

Thousands of people, mostly women, wait in line for hours in the blazing sun to get their rations.

Conditions in Leogane camps are not ideal, but are still considered good to some extent.

Other relief groups are also working on long-term recovery plans, but it's hard to think far ahead when meeting immediate needs in Leogane is still such a huge undertaking.

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