NJ Aid Worker Found Alive

A New Jersey aid worker was found alive in rubble in Haiti.
      
Sarla Chand was in Port-au-Prince before the earthquake hit.

She was buried alive for 50 hours underneath the pile of rubble that used to be the Montana Hotel.

Chand, 65, smiled when rescuers greeted her with a biscuit and their big smiles.

The Teaneck woman said she was talking to five other people who were trapped with her.

The hotel sits on a ridge and was flattened from the earthquake.

Chand is a physician and vice president of international programs at the New Windsor, Md.-based medical relief group IMA World Health.
      
Her biography on the church Web site says she previously spent more than two decades working on international issues for the United Methodist Church.
      
She is also the co-author of a textbook for mission study, "Global Health and Christian Response-ability."
      
One New Jersey church group in Haiti when Tuesday's quake hit has returned home. Another is safe and expected to return on Saturday.
      
Christine Gianacaci of Hopewell, a student at Lynn University in Florida, is still missing.

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