Girl rescued from Haiti college rubble after 15 days

French rescuers covered Darlene Etienne, 17, with a thermal blanket and administered oxygen as she was rushed to a French-run field hospital for treatment.

Her family said she had just started studying at the College St Gerard when the disaster struck, trapping scores of people in the rubble of university buildings, hostels and homes.

"We thought she was dead," her cousin, Jocelyn St Jules, said in a telephone call from Marche Dessalines, a town north of the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince.

The last confirmed rescue of someone trapped by the initial quake occurred on Saturday, 11 days after the magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck, when a man was extricated from the ruins of a hotel grocery store.

More than 100 people have been rescued since the January 12 quake, but most of those were in the immediate aftermath and authorities say it is unlikely for anyone to survive more than 72 hours without water.

International relief efforts are continuing to provide essential food, medical supplies and shelter for survivors.

Tent cities have been built around the devastated capital Port-au-Prince, and charities area working to set up "Child Spaces" for the estimated one million vulnerable children who have been left homeless, orphaned or separated from their families.

As fundraising efforts continue, legendary producer Quincy Jones is re-recording the charity song We Are the World and sending the proceeds to Haiti.

In Britain, Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy has organised Poetry Live For Haiti in London on Saturday.

Poets including Andrew Motion, Roger McGough and Christopher Reid will join her on stage at the Central Hall, Westminster, and perform for free.