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THE
HUMANITARIAN
COALITION
Haiti Earthquake
12/01/2010
The members of the HUMANITARIAN COALITION have been present in Haiti for more than five decades and had more than 600 staff working in the country when the earthquake hit on January 12th. They immediately responded to meet the urgent needs of survivors of the quake. Now more than four weeks after the first tremors shook the ground the relief effort continues. But it is slowly giving way to greater emphasis on recovery and reconstruction. CARE Canada, Oxfam Canada, Oxfam-Québec and Save the Children Canada are working hand in hand with local communities and partners as they embark on the journey to rebuild lives and livelihoods in the aftermath of this tragedy.
Assistance by the members of the HUMANITARIAN COALITION began the morning after the quake. Even though many of the staff in Haiti had lost their own homes and family, they immediately went to work surveying the damage and needs and mounting recovery and relief efforts.
To date, CARE Canada, Oxfam Canada, Oxfam-Québec and Save the Children Canada have :
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Supplied more than 294,000 people with food, water purification kits, kits of special supplies for women with newborns, hygiene kits, mattresses, blankets
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provided access to water through installation of water bladders and water tankers, in Port-au-Prince, Pétionville, Carrefour, Léogâne, and Jérémie
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delivered shipments of tents and shelter supplies
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mobilized additional staff to assist in setting up temporary shelters in Leogane
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begun construction of 60 latrines around a school in Carrefour for people taking shelter in the area
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trucked in clean water and set up a massive bladder to keep the General Hospital in Port-au-Prince supplied with water that’s crucial to cleaning, sterilizing equipment and cooking meals
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distributed plastic sheeting for use as shelter and organized and distributed “family kits” consisting of feminine hygiene products, pots, buckets and kitchen utensils
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In Carrefour, the epicenter of the quake, began paying community members to start cleaning up the area by removing rubbish and waste. Cash-for-work programs mean that individuals not only improve their living conditions, they also earn desperately-needed money to buy food and other necessities.
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led a number of child protection activities, such as reunifying separated and unaccompanied children with their families
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set up 16 child-friendly spaces that have kept more than 10,000 children safe while their parents engage in relief activities. In these spaces they are provided with educational and creative programming to help them return to a sense of normalcy as well as feel a sense of security in a safe location
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distributed medication to hospitals and clinics, set up mobile clinics to provide medical consultations and is supporting primary health care activities
Scroll down to learn more about exactly what the members of the Humanitarian Coalition are doing.
You can also click here to learn more about the rebuilding plans.
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CARE Canada’s Haiti Earthquake Response
CARE’s assistance began the morning after the quake. Even though many of our staff in Haiti had lost their own homes and family, they immediately went to work surveying the damage and needs and mounting recovery and relief efforts.
To date, CARE has reached more than 50,000 people with food, water purification kits, kits of special supplies for women with newborns, hygiene kits, mattresses, blankets and is providing access to water through installation of water bladders and water tankers, in Port-au-Prince, Pétionville, Carrefour, Léogâne, and Jérémie. Shipments of tents and shelter supplies have been delivered and CARE is mobilizing additional staff to assist in setting up temporary shelters in Leogane. The United Nations is also now supplying CARE with reproductive health kits and clean delivery kits for distribution. CARE has begun construction of 60 latrines around a school in Carrefour for people taking shelter in the area. In the first three months of this initial response period, CARE plans to supply more than 60,000 people with water, food, shelter and other essentials.
Oxfam’s Haiti Earthquake Response
Oxfam Canada and Oxfam-Québec are distributing clean water, building water taps, installing latrines and setting up bladders of water to store clean water in temporary camps. So far, Oxfam has reached in excess of 90,000 earthquake survivors. At the General Hospital in Port-au-Prince, we’ve trucked in clean water and set up a massive bladder to keep the hospital supplied with water that’s crucial to cleaning, sterilizing equipment and cooking meals. We’ve distributed plastic sheeting for use as shelter and organized and distributed “family kits” consisting of feminine hygiene products, pots, buckets and kitchen utensils.
In Carrefour, the epicenter of the quake, Oxfam began paying community members to start cleaning up the area by removing rubbish and waste. Cash-for-work programs mean that individuals not only improve their living conditions, they also earn desperately-needed money to buy food and other necessities.
Save the Children’s Haiti Earthquake Response
Children are always the most vulnerable when a disaster strikes, so Save the Children has been reaching out to families and children by providing medical support, food, water and other supplies such as blankets, plastic sheeting, water storage containers and hygiene kits.
So far, Save the Children has reached more than 144,000 earthquake survivors with relief. Save the Children is leading a number of child protection activities, such as reunifying separated and unaccompanied children with their families. As well, we have set up 16 child-friendly spaces that have kept more than 10,000 children safe while their parents engage in relief activities. In these spaces they are provided with educational and creative programming to help them return to a sense of normalcy as well as feel a sense of security in a safe location. Save the Children has distributed medication to hospitals and clinics, set up mobile clinics to provide medical consultations and is supporting primary health care activities.
Canada’s relief efforts in Haiti move to stabilization, reconstruction
25/02/2010
By Amy Husser, Canwest News Service
To see the full story, click here.
Read more...HELPING THOSE IN NEED
03/02/2010
There’s an air of frenzied activity as I enter the warehouse Oxfam shares with others in Haiti’s most notorious crime-ridden neighbourhood, Cité-Soleil.
Men and women are working furiously, assembly-line fashion, putting together “family kits” – containing basic hygiene and kitchen items - to distribute to 10,000 households. The kits consist of brightly coloured plastic bowls, plates, kitchen utensils, together with cups, towels, soap, shampoo, toothbrushes and toothpaste.
Colleen Malone | Blog from Haiti
31/01/2010
Save the Children Canada's Senior Emergency Advisor reports from Haiti.
Read more...
Cash for work program in Haiti
31/01/2010
Read more...a letter from Save the Children staff in Haiti.
31/01/2010
"I was behind my house studying when the earthquake happened. My mother and father were inside and they died, so did my three cousins. I do not have any brothers or sisters. My uncle looked after me and then he and my aunt brought me to this camp—Eliassaint, Port-au-Prince, Haiti"
Read more...Children and Local Society Must Be a Priority in Rebuilding Haiti
28/01/2010
Save the Children calls for measures to focus on child welfare in discussions of Haiti's future
Read more...Haiti Blog - January 26
26/01/2010
(January 26 - 9am) It was a relief to read the sign on the wall: no dead bodies after 3:30 p.m. My watch showed it was 4 p.m. Thankfully, when I poked my head into the morgue at the Hôpital Universitē de l’Ētat de Haiti, also known as the General Hospital, the room was empty.
Read more...Oxfam: Cash-for-work in Haiti
22/01/2010
Cash-for-work in Haiti
International aid agency Oxfam is beginning discussions around cash-for-work programs to help survivors of Haiti’s devastating earthquake rebuild their lives and livelihoods.
Read more...Save the Children’s Colleen Malone arrives
22/01/2010
Update, January 21, 2010
Colleen arrived safely in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, last night. This is her fifth trip to Haiti, but never had she seen it like this:
Read more...Aftershock Endangers, Reports Save the Children
21/01/2010
Toronto, ON (January 20, 2010) - Save the Children Canada, member of the HUMANITARIAN COALITION, reports that the 6.1 magnitude aftershock has caused additional damage and emotional trauma in Haiti. Save the Children staff responding to the post-earthquake situation in Port-au-Prince heard already weakened structures collapsing. The threats to and fears of children in the disaster zone remain undiminished.
Read more...Save the Children Canada’s Colleen Malone Arrives in Haiti
21/01/2010
Colleen arrived safely in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, last night. This is her fifth trip to Haiti, but never had she seen it like this.
Read more...Cash-for-work in Haiti
21/01/2010
International aid agency Oxfam is beginning discussions around cash-for-work programs to help survivors of Haiti’s devastating earthquake rebuild their lives and livelihoods.
Read more...Give Haitians the means to help ourselves
20/01/2010
After the earthquake, I found my house completely destroyed and the corpse of my mother was there. I live with my husband and mother; I have two children, but they are studying in Canada and France. My husband is a university professor; he had been at the hospital since early that morning since a colleague had passed away ... he had been stabbed in the street. At least my husband was safe.
Video: Oxfam on the ground
20/01/2010
A video of Oxfam Yolette Etienne interviewed.
Pregnant in Haiti
20/01/2010
Julietter lies on the ground in a makeshift shelter as her chubby-cheeked, smiling toddler, Millicent, climbs all over her. Her beautiful round 7-months-pregnant belly is tilted to the side. Her denim skirt (not maternity wear) is open at the waist to make room for her growing baby. Her pillow, sheet and clothes are surprisingly clean considering the earthquake that has all but destroyed Haiti has decimated her home. On first glance, Julietter looks peaceful, like any mother having a rest and a cuddle with her toddler.
Read more...Update from the CARE team in Haiti following aftershocks
20/01/2010
The latest postings from the CARE team in Haiti after the 6.1 magnitude aftershock early this morning, Wednesday, January 20th, 2010.
Read more...Canadian networks plan Coalition fundraiser
20/01/2010
Canada's television networks are collaborating on a television special this Friday to raise money for earthquake relief in Haiti.
Read more...Kilimanjaro fundraiser sends its cash to Haiti
19/01/2010
They were all ready to climb Mount Kilimanjaro for a good cause. But then the earthquake in Haiti happened.
Read more...“Desperation at our gates”
19/01/2010
If charity begins at home, CARE is in the right place. Just outside our Haiti headquarters, many hundreds, perhaps thousands – no one has counted them – of newly homeless people are camped out in the main square of Pétionville, a near suburb of Port au Prince.
Read more...Aid Getting through
19/01/2010
OTTAWA — Leaders of four Canadian relief organizations said they are managing to help thousands of people in Haiti despite an aid supply bottleneck at the Port-au-Prince airport and delays in co-ordinating international efforts.
They are getting around the "choke point" by using supplies purchased in Haiti, brought in overland from Dominican Republic or shipped from Miami.
They also spoke in a conference call with reporters Tuesday about how their aid workers are finding the vast majority of Haitians organized and calm.
Read more...Hill Helps Haiti
19/01/2010
There is a great event on the hill!
Help Heal Haiti
19/01/2010
Following the Jan 12 2010 earthquake in Haiti, Ottawa residents Oni the Haitian Sensation and Rachel Décoste have raised over $20 000 in two days for the Red Cross and for the Humanitarian Coalition (which includes CARE Canada, OxFam, etc). Their goal is to raise 1 million dollars for Haiti's earthquake relief victims.
Read more...Video from Port-au-Prince,
19/01/2010
"I've been with the team here for 2 days. Everyone is working incredibly hard but facing great obstacles including poor communications and a lack of fuel. I recorded this over Skype while on a quick break from interviews. Please, use it on your posts and share with others."
Read more...Québec government for this support
18/01/2010
The Premier of Québec, Jean Charest, has announced $3 million in emergency financial assistance for Haitians affected by the January 12 earthquake. Of that amount, $1 million will go to Oxfam-Québec.
Read more...Video from Haiti
18/01/2010
Read more...Audio Update from Haiti
18/01/2010
Louis Belanger update on first full day in Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Read more...Haiti donors summit January 25 in Montreal, Canada
18/01/2010
OTTAWA (AFP) – Donor countries will meet January 25 in Montreal to discuss Haiti's reconstruction efforts after the massive earthquake there, Canada's Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon said Sunday.
"The Montreal meeting will provide an opportunity to reassess the situation in Haiti and ensure that the United Nations can focus international efforts to better help the Haitian people meet the challenges and prepare for long-term stabilization and reconstruction," Cannon said.
hundreds of newly homeless people are camped outside CARE
17/01/2010
Rick Perera
January 17, 2010
Port-au-Prince, Haiti
If charity begins at home, CARE is in the right place. Just outside our Haiti headquarters, many hundreds, perhaps thousands – no one has counted them – of newly homeless people are camped out in the main square of Pétionville, a near suburb of Port au Prince. They wait patiently in the hot sun, but their desperation grows by the hour. At night, groups of people can be heard clapping and chanting. Some have hung banners, painted on bedsheets, with messages like “We need help!” in English and Creole.
U.S. officials on the ground in Haiti give update
17/01/2010
PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI (BNO NEWS) – U.S. officials on the ground gave an update Sunday on the status of the humanitarian relief operations that are ongoing in Haiti.
U.S. officials on the ground in Haiti, including Tim Callaghan, Senior Regional Advisor from USAID, and Col. Buck Elton, Commander of Special Operations Command in South Haiti, provided an update on the situation in the aftermath of the earthquake.
Read more...Thomson Reuters Foundation puts in place first-of-its-kind Emergency Information Service (EIS) in Ha
17/01/2010
The EIS is exclusively operating for and on behalf of earthquake survivors, using local languages, French and Creole * The service is free and global. People in Haiti and families and friends around the world can register via a simple text message .
Read more...News From Haiti, Helen’s Story
17/01/2010
Helen Hawking : Haiti 2010
12 January.
It had been an average day in the office, conference calls, report writing, fighting off the mosquitoes that plague us here. My clock showed just 10 minutes until it was time to leave for the day, when without any warning the ground made slight movements, which rapidly became violent. The earth shook harder than I have ever felt before, I ran to the door but could not get out. I hid under my desk, my hand pressed up against the surface protecting my head, hoping it would hold up to the pressure of 2 storeys falling on it. If I were buried under a tonne of debris, would I ever get rescued? Was this the end for me?
“You want to get people working rather than looting"- UNDP
16/01/2010
By Laurie Goering
LONDON (AlertNet) - The UN Development Programme is planning within days to launch a cash-for-work program for Haitian earthquake survivors, aimed at getting basic survival funds into the hands of people able to help remove rubble from roads, reconstruct hospitals and carry out other work key to getting basic services functioning again, says Jordan Ryan.
Haiti aid flow grows; feuds over reaching victims
16/01/2010
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – A flood of food, water and U.S. troops flowed toward Haiti on Saturday as donors squabbled over how to reach hungry, haggard earthquake survivors still trying to claw others from ruined buildings before the dying became the dead.
Read more...Chaos, Logistics Pose Obstacles For Haiti’s Recovery
16/01/2010
Desperately needed aid — including food and water — was pouring Saturday into quake-ravaged Haiti, but the airport in the capital Port-au-Prince continued to be log-jammed as dozens of aid organizations struggled to deliver supplies to fraught survivors.
Read more...Save the Children to Take the Lead on Child Protection in Haiti
16/01/2010
TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - Jan. 15, 2010) - Thousands of children in Haiti have been left vulnerable in the wake of Tuesday's earthquake. UNICEF turned to Save the Children, an organization with 30 years experience in Haiti, to take the lead on coordination of child protection activities during this critical stage of the emergency.
Read more...Broward hospitals receive patients from Haiti
15/01/2010
Americans injured in the earthquake in Haiti are starting to trickle into Broward hospitals.
Broward Health has treated at least eight patients from Haiti Thursday and Friday, spokeswoman Sara Howley said.
Many of the patients -- missionaries and volunteers in Haiti -- arrived at Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport and went to nearby hospitals including North Broward Medical Center in Deerfield Beach and Broward General Medical Center in Fort Lauderdale.
Read more...Relief Groups Seek Alternative Routes to Get Aid Moving
15/01/2010
"Amid looting of United Nations and other food stocks in Haiti, international relief agencies struggled Friday to find alternative routes for aid in the face of survivors’ angry criticism that no help was getting through, threatening them with a second catastrophe after Tuesday’s earthquake.
With relief flights snarled at Port-au-Prince airport, officials at international aid organizations in Geneva and Rome said in telephone interviews that the likely alternatives included a land-and-air bridge between Port-au-Prince and Santo Domingo in the neighboring Dominican Republic and the deployment of roll-on, roll-off vessels capable of unloading supplies at the badly damaged port in the Haitian capital."
Read more...Looters Break Into UN Warehouses
15/01/2010
"Looters have broken into U.N. food warehouses in Haiti's crumbled capital, an official said Friday, as security and logistical challenges mounted for groups trying to feed at least 2 million people reeling from a devastating earthquake.
The U.N. World Food Program had 15,000 tons of food aid in Haiti prior to Tuesday's 7.0-magnitude earthquake, stocks designed for hurricane relief. Spokeswoman Emilia Casella said local partners reported that the U.N. warehouse in Port-au-Prince's Cite Soleil neighborhood was looted but the agency did not know how much aid was stolen or exactly when it was taken."
Read more...Photos From The Ground
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