CARE.org is one of the aid agencies continuing to rush aid and emergency team members to Haiti following the 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck the impoverished country on Tuesday, January 12, 2010. The capital city is in ruins. Most of the buildings have collapsed, including hospitals, homes and schools. Approximately 3 million people have been affected by the disaster.
The quake's epicenter was just 10 miles south of the country's capital, Port-au-Prince, where the majority of people live on less than $2 per day.
Estimates of the dead range from 50,000-200,000 people, and many more have lost their homes in the most powerful quake ever recorded in the country – the poorest in the Western Hemisphere. Haiti's President René Préval states, "It is a catastrophe."
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