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‘Haitian sensation relief crew take the lead in quake-hit Delmas

In the intensely can-do atmosphere of Steve McAndrews relief cell at IFRC base camp in Port-au-Prince, the team led by 20-year-old Nadia Grossaint has inevitably become known as the Haitian sensation. Today the all-Haitian National Red Cross Society (HNRCS) relief crew face their biggest challenge to date: theyre going solo, on a difficult distribution in the eastern Delmas suburb of Port-au-Prince. It will be the first humanitarian aid to get through to Terrain Cohan, on Delmas 63, a family neighbourhood, but a hilly one with narrow streets, difficult for trucks. Therell be four Mexican Red Cross volunteers there, but just to provide extra elbow grease. McAndrew, a veteran American Red Cross delegate whos run IFRC relief in Haiti from the start, has been grooming Grossaint and her team [...]