D Thursday, January 28, 2010 News 11 HAITIS over-crowded hospitals and camps are strug- gling to cope with hundreds of thousands of abandoned babies and young children many without parents, homes or even names. Infections are spreading while injuries go untreated as aid workers struggle with a surge of youngsters in- cluding babies taken from their dead parents arms. Meanwhile, makeshift relief camps were descending into anarchy yesterday as desperate queues scrapped over food and police and Brazilian UN peacekeepers fired tear gas and pepper spray and aimed guns. Some queues were even closed down by the World Food Programme when disorder surged out of control. Thomas Louis, 40, queuing for rice and oil for his Thousands of children alone and vulnerable By Ellen OReilly US soldiers carry an injured man to a tap tap bus in Port-au- Prince. The man was allegedly shot by police for looting Picture: AP two babies, said: The help is good, but the way theyre doing it is bad. This is anarchy. This is not aid. Brazilian army colonel Fernando Soares said of the crowds: Theyre not violent, just desperate they just want to eat. The problem is, there is not enough food for everyone. Many starving babies and children have been brought into camps or hospitals by rescue teams unsure who their parents are. Aid workers say many are vulnerable to disease and the threat from child traffickers. Kate Conradt, from Save The Children, said theres an estimated 1million orphaned or unaccompanied children who are extremely vulnerable. Theyre not violent... they just want to eat Remains: Haitians salvage what they can A manicure for Haiti? FANCY making yourself over to make a difference? Pinkie beauty salon at 65 Upper Georges Street, Dn Laoghaire, is donating all the money it makes tomorrow to Haven, to aid its Haiti appeal. From 9.30am to 7.30pm, any money spent on a manicure, spray tan or makeover will go directly to the charity. Survivors paid for cleaning up OXFAM has begun employing people affected by the Haitian earthquake to clean up the makeshift camps for money. The cash-for-work scheme began on Sunday and will expand this week across the charitys nine sites serving 80,000 people. People are anxious to have some money, said Oxfams Alexandros Yiannopoulos. Providing paid employment such as collecting trash and human waste not only makes for a cleaner camp, it puts money into the pockets of those who need it most, he said. Weve learned from experience that people prefer money to goods or food. That way they can buy what they need. This week the Irish Aid technical team, which has just returned from Haiti, will report to the Minister of State for Overseas Development Peter Power, to make recommendations on Irelands ongoing response to the earthquake. index.html2.html3.html4.html5.html6.html7.html8.html9.html10.html11.html12.html13.html14.html15.html16.html17.html18.html19.html20.html21.html22.html23.html24.html25.html26.html27.html