Haiti+Source+1

http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=39352&Cr=haiti&Cr1=

"In Haiti, UN Staff at the Ready as Hurricane Bears down on Northern Coast." //Welcome to the United Nations: It's Your World//. UN News Centre, 22 Aug. 2011. Web. 30 Sept. 2011. .

__15 Facts:__
 * 1) 22 August 2011
 * 2) United Nations staff in Haiti have activated their emergency response systems to prepare for tonight’s expected arrival of Hurricane Irene as it crosses the Caribbean region.
 * 3) The hurricane is expected to hit hardest along the country’s north coast.
 * 4) Irene was upgraded from a tropical storm and Haitian authorities have issued a “red alert” for the entire country
 * 5) Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs ([|OCHA]).
 * 6) UN peacekeeping mission ([|MINUSTAH])
 * 7) The UN is helping authorities and the International Organization for Migration
 * 8) (IOM) with a public awareness campaign focused on highly populated areas and on markets
 * 9) Haiti, still fragile after the catastrophic earthquake of January 2010
 * 10) has been pummelled by numerous hurricanes in recent years, but escaped serious damaged from Tropical Storm Emily at the start of the month
 * 11) Headed westward
 * 12) may turn northward later and head towards the south-eastern United States.
 * 13) Hurricane Irene, which is also expect to batter the Dominican Republic later today
 * 14) pummelled by numerous hurricanes in recent years
 * 15) escaped serious damaged from Tropical Storm Emily at the start of the month.