Vwegba Blogging World

For 48 frantic hours his parents had searched for their two-year-old son, digging with their bare hands among the twisted rubble of their collapsed home. They could hear his increasingly weak cries but simply could not shift the mangled concrete and metal that had trapped him somewhere below. Yesterday, however, came the joyous moment they had feared they would never see after the massive earthquake that struck Haiti on Tuesday, killing up to 50,000. Rescue workers, burrowing deep into the rubble, head torches picking out their route, edged their way successfully towards little Redjeson Claude. He was then passed along a human chain, his head scarred by dried blood and his face covered in minor wounds. He looked bewildered - until the moment he saw his mother Daphnee. Then, his eyes lit up and his face creased into a smile as she reached forward to cuddle him. For the international rescue teams operating in the heart of the broken Haiti capital Port-au-Prince, it was a moment of relief