The level of emergency supplies getting through to Haiti is improving daily.

On Monday, ActionAid gave 2,500 people emergency food supplies and medicines in the Mariani area of Port-au-Prince. It is currently the only aid agency to work in this area.

Over the coming week ActionAid will bring in the following emergency supplies: 3,000 tents, 20,000 blankets, 1,000 boxes of nappies and 9,000 foam mattresses. Extra emergency staff have been sent to the area to help deliver the aid. ActionAid plans to help up to 20,000 people overall in its emergency response.

Jean Claude Fignole, ActionAid’s country director in Haiti, said: “Aid is getting to the people who desperately need it. The people we work with are getting high-energy emergency food until supplies of flour and cooking oil arrive in the next few days.

“They’re drinking water direct from a stream and a spring near their makeshift camp, so we’ll be giving out water purification tablets, to make sure people have safe water and to reduce the risk of disease.

“Our office was made unsafe in the earthquake but we have got a makeshift office working in the garden of a colleague. Communications are slowly improving and we are getting aid from the outside world onto the streets of Port-au-Prince.

“This is only the start. There is so much more to do.”

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