The United Nations has received almost half of the $575 million it called on the world to collect to help Haiti residents, the UN humanitarian coordinator said.
John Holmes told journalists Tuesday that 49% of the funds for the quake-stricken impoverished Caribbean nation of some 10 million people have been received.
A 7.0 magnitude earthquake devastated Haiti on January 12. Estimates as to the final death toll in the earthquake range up to 200,000. Over 150,000 bodies have so far been collected in the in and around the capital Port-au-Prince.
More than three million have been left without shelter.
The collected money will be used to deliver food, water, medicine and to provide security. Restoration work is funded separately.
UNITED NATIONS, January 27 (RIA Novosti)
