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Haitians living abroad have been struggling to get in touch with relatives as communication systems in Haiti were badly damaged by this week's earthquake.

In the United States the main Haitian community in Miami has organised meetings to pray and to raise money for relief efforts. In New York, Haitians have been donating money and putting together food packets.

In Canada, the Governor General Michaelle Jean, who was born in Haiti, broke down in tears as she described the devastation, which she compared to the effects of an atom bomb.

The أغر؟´«أ½'s Angus Stickler spent the day in North London with a Haitian family trying to contact their relatives.

First broadcast 14 January 2010