MAR 23: EX-PRESIDENTS VISIT HAITI, ASSOCIATED PRESS

Former President George W. Bush, center, stretches his hand to shake it with an unidentified man next to Haiti's President Rene Preval, left, and former President and U.N. special envoy for Haiti Bill Clinton at a homeless earthquake survivors camp in Port-au-Prince, Monday, March 22, 2010. Clinton and Bush are on a one-day visit to Haiti to assess recovery needs, after being tapped by President Barack Obama to spearhead U.S. fundraising in response to the devastating Jan. 12 earthquake. Photograph by Jorge Saenz / AP

ASSOCIATED PRESS, Presidents Bush, Clinton Visit Devastated Haiti

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- The two former leaders, who were tapped by President Barack Obama to spearhead U.S. fundraising for the crisis, made their first joint visit as part of the mission to raise aid and investment for the impoverished Caribbean nation.

- Clinton and Bush later greeted quake survivors camped on the Champ de Mars, the national mall filled with 60,000 homeless people.

- About 100 supporters of ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide staged a protest outside the national palace, burning tires and demanding the return of their exiled leader.

- Clinton and Bush visit as the country struggles to feed and shelter victims of the magnitude-7 quake, which killed an estimated 230,000 people. Another 1.3 million quake survivors are homeless, with many living in camps prone to dangerous flooding in the April rainy season.

- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has also announced he would cancel Haiti's debt to his country, which the IMF had listed at more than $200 million.

- The nonprofit Clinton Bush Haiti Fund has raised $37 million from 220,000 individuals including Hollywood actor Leonardo DiCaprio, who gave $1 million, and Obama, who among other donations gave $200,000 of his Nobel Peace Prize. About $4 million has gone to such organizations as Habitat for Humanity, the University of Miami/Project Medishare mobile hospital in Port-au-Prince and the U.S. branch of the Irish charity Concern Worldwide. The rest has yet to be allocated.