Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo observes the loading of a cargo plane with food aid destined to Haiti. (Photo: El Palacio de López)
By Joshua Runyan
With the situation on the ground in Haiti improving ever so slightly, relief shipments continued apace, filling all 100 landing slots at Port-au-Prince’s small airport and sending a steady stream of trucks across the devastated nation’s border with the Dominican Republic.
Among the United Nations convoys were unmarked white trucks dispatched by Rabbi Shimon Pelman, the S. Domingo-based director ofChabad-Lubavitch of the Dominican Republic. Stocked with non-perishable food, water and medical supplies, they joined the hundreds of thousands of pounds of materials headed into the worst of the destruction days after a Jan. 12 earthquake left the Haitian capital in shambles.
