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US President Barack Obama, joined hands with former presidents Bush and Clinton and initiated a national hurl to raise funds for Haiti earthquake relief on 19^th January 2010. President Obama, who has already, promised a $100 million earthquake relief fund said, “Former Presidents Bush and Clinton will assist the American people to do their part; because retort to a disaster is the work of all of us.” Former President Bush requested all Americans to “just send us your cash,” to help Haiti earthquake victims who are struggling without basic needs.

UNICEF is arranging for clean water and sanitation supplies, remedial foods, medical supplies and temporary shelter to Jacmel and Port-au-Prince. UNICEF is also focusing on children who have lost .their families to protect them from mistreatment.

CARE has planned to start food distributions using stocks of high protein biscuits from CARE warehouses in Haiti. CARE has 133 staffs. These people are coordinating with U.N. agencies and other organizations to collect more detailed information about the destruction and will quickly start the recovery process based on that estimation.

Now after a week since the destructive earthquake in Haiti and the aid is finally reaching the victims, many groups and nonprofits organizations have gathered to raise money for recovery as relief efforts goes on.

Music for Relief is contributing a collection of unreleased music, accessible for free download on MusicForRelief.org. This site supports donations, which will be divided equally among the Habitat For Humanity, United Nations Foundation, and Dave Matthews Band’s BAMA Works Haitian relief program.

The 2010 Haiti earthquake was a catastrophic magnitude of 7.0 Mw earthquake. Its epicenter was near Léogâne, about 25 km west of Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti. The earthquake happened at 16:53:10 local time (21:53:10 UTC) on Tuesday, 12 January 2010, at a depth of 13 km. The United States Geological Survey confirmed a series of at least 33 aftershocks, fourteen of them were having a magnitude of 5.0 and 5.9. The International Red Cross predicted that about three million people would be affected by the quake, and the Haitian Interior Minister, Paul Antoine Bien-Aime, deems that up to 200,000 would have died because of this disaster.

The earthquake has created major damage to Port-au-Prince. Most of the important landmarks of the city were extensively destroyed including the Presidential Palace, the Port-au-Prince Cathedral, the National Assembly building, and the main jail. Due to this major earthquake most hospitals in the area were shattered. Since the organizational structures like hospitals and schools in Haiti had been destroyed, Elisabeth Byrs of the UN called this earthquake as the worst disaster the UN had ever been faced.

The UN World Food schema has been dispensing out the aid packages containing food, while UK charity Oxfam has been distributing water. But many sufferers are still not receiving any aid, as the airport remains a restricted access. UN Humanitarian Coordinator Kim Bolduc says getting supplies to the victims from the planes is still a major difficulty. The port is badly smashed, and many roads are still blocked by dead bodies and debris.

The destruction by the tsunami has been terribly evident on land, but what about under water marine life and coral reefs? After tsunami coral reef communities may have been tattered into pieces in some areas and throttled by heaps of mud and garbage in other places. The direct impact of severe wave energy on near shore habitats like coral reefs, sea grasses and mangroves will be extensive.

Various species of coral reefs, algae and other marine invertebrates are really fragile and cannot resist turbulent soaring force .Consequently; these species are mostly vulnerable to the destructive wave energy created by this tsunami. Nurseries of young fish and turtles in mangroves and marshland will be shattered probably endangering the future fishing crops for decades.

While most of the large aquatic animals possibly escape to deeper waters as the gigantic waves hit the land, garbage such as fishing gear and sharp, rusting metal creates risks for the animals on future. Amongst them most affected vital marine lives are coral reefs. These complex communities are made up of limestone, made by camp of coral cysts and algae. This arrangement bears more species per unit than any other aquatic environment, counting endless species of fish, sea horses, sea turtles and sponges. Coral reefs will start recovering from damage caused by high intensity waves called tsunami in a span of four years