Doctors without Borders, the UN, mission groups have not been spared.

http://www.whatgives.com/2010/01/12/helping-haiti/

There is a pic of the Presidential Palace. It’s half gone.
http://tiny.cc/DQfR6

Water, food, communications, electricity, medical help are part of recovery.
They haven’t had an opportunity to get into rescue mode yet.

Global Voices Online will stay on this long term.

Shanty towns and one story buildings toppling isn’t good news, nothing build to code, NGO’s missing, the roads gone…

Since most residences are close to the ground, rescue work
isn’t quite as daunting–there are no skyscrapers.
There are, however, the shanty towns
built on hillsides and the crush of buildings at the bottom of
the hills will be a major concern. Most housing stock is
quite flimsy and usually only one- or two-storey in build.

What is frightening is the open sewerage and questionable
quality drinking water and the other unreliable infrastructure
such as electricity and natural gas. The unavailability of
fresh food for the masses is another great concern.

There is no consolation that so many millions of people are
now in such desperate dire straits. The poverty in Haiti
is so appalling, it’s unbelievable.

Then come the questions about how to relieve the
situation in Haiti and raise the society to a higher standard
of living. Where does all that start? Who shall take the lead?
Can the rest of the West convince Haiti to shed its old ways?