More help on the way for disaster victims

SANTO DOMINGO, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Stefanie Zarych, a lawyer from Atlantic City in the United States, was on a US Airways flight from Philadelphia to Santo Domingo on Tuesday evening. She had not booked a hotel there yet, in fact, she was still trying to figure out how to get to her next destination - Port-au-Prince, Haiti, as soon as possible.

Zarych was taking boxes of medical supplies she purchased at her own expense with her. She wanted to deliver them to a hospital in Haiti, which she knew is desperately short of medicines and equipment.

"I plan to spend a week there to help out," Zarych told China Daily. She was not alone. Many of her fellow passengers were not going to Santo Domingo to enjoy the sunshine and the beach resorts, but are instead intent on getting to Haiti to provide what assistance they can.