Damon, Singer Jean Help in Haiti

Call on UN to raise $100M for storm recovery
Posted Sep 15, 2008 11:07 AM CDT
Damon, Singer Jean Help in Haiti
Actor Matt Damon, second left, Musician Wyclef Jean, and New Brunswick, Canada Premier Frank McKenna are escorted by U.N. peacekeepers and police officers in Gonaives, Haiti, yesterday.   (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

Matt Damon and singer Wyclef Jean waded through knee-deep flood waters during a tour of decimated Gonaives, Haiti, yesterday to call attention to the widespread suffering that has followed tropical storm Hanna and Hurricane Ike. "I'm speechless, I can't believe it," Damon told the AP. The actor and the Haitian-born singer are asking fans to pitch in as the UN attempts to raise more than $100 million in aid.

"It's inhumane," said Jean. "No human should be living like this."
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