Aid workers were assisting today as thousands of families in Haiti were evacuated for the second time since the nation’s devastating earthquake.
Amid warnings of landslides and flooding, 5,000 people are being moved from one of Port-au-Prince's most crowded emergency camps created after the disaster in January.
The government is moving vulnerable children and adults from the camp at Petion-Ville Club, in greater Port-au-Prince, to a new emergency relocation camp at Corail Cesselesse, north of the city.
Kathryn Bolles, a Save the Children emergency worker, said: "Families cannot
safely stay where they are. Children are particularly at risk. As the rain comes with more frequency, their shelters are likely to be swamped or, worse, they may be washed off the hillside.".
The magnitude 7.0 quake which struck in mid-January killed more than 200,000 people and left more than one million people in need of aid.
Haiti was the western hemisphere's poorest nation before the earthquake hit.