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Haiti: one month later... - 12/02/2010 10:42

A month after the earthquake devastated Port-au-Prince it is good to hear that the government is beginning to get itself back on its feet. It is a mammoth task but, with assistance from the UN and aid agencies, Haiti is starting to get more organised. Aid is finally getting through more efficiently and being distributed to the right places. Many now jobless Haitians have been assisting with the distribution and have been a real help to the overwhelmed aid agencies. Our partners recently attended a meeting with the UN, the US army and the major aid agencies. Aid is now flooding in by sea and air and it is a challenge to co-ordinate it all, but as the different organisations discussed their struggles they all found little ways they could work together better to deliver aid more efficiently to the places where it is most needed. It was also a We have had a new girl join our project in House of Blessings, a refugee fleeing the devastation in Port-au-Prince. Check back soon to hear her story. Jubilee Action's medical volunteers arrived safely back in the UK this morning. They have been in Haiti helping in the overcrowded hospitals, now filled with disabled and paralysed victims of the earthquake. Check back soon to hear more of their experiences in Haiti....

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The future of our work in Haiti - 05/02/2010 14:39

Cap-Haïtien, the city where our House of Blessings is based, has welcomed home refugees fleeing the earthquake-ravaged capital of Haiti. Family members, whether close kin or distant relatives, have been welcomed and offered safe shelter, food and water. Our partners have been busy opening their hospital and health clinic to Our House of Blessings continues well despite the earthquake. Most members of staff have welcomed back some members of their family, although others have lost many of their family in Port-au-Prince. Our night staff told us they have lost 9 members of their family. I can’t even begin to imagine The media have broadcast news of the many, many children orphaned and disabled by the earthquake. We have informed the UN we are a home for lost, orphaned or displaced children, especially those now disabled as we are one of the few places in the country with the facilities to Thanks to your overwhelmingly generous responses to offer your time and medical skills, we have a huge number of medical personnel who are now staffing our partners hospital facilities in the north of Haiti. Haiti has been flooded with medics rushing to the rescue, at present there is an excess We told you in December of our determination to set up a project for street children and restaveks who are so in need of our help. Government help was almost non-existent and there were few international charities who were working in this area. Now, what few local charitable organisations were Next month, I will be visiting Haiti once more to meet with those organisations I met in December and see where our support is most needed. There are many large emergency aid organisations who stepped in in the immediate aftermath of the disaster. We are not experts in disaster relief Thank you all so much for your incredible generosity which makes it possible for us to support these children who are so much in need of our help. In order to deliver the long-term support that they really need, these children need your continued support. Even as Haiti fades from...

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Welcoming the refugees - 03/02/2010 15:34

The UK media were expecting a mass exodus of refugees to the north of Haiti, following the devastation of the earthquake. They were right, many have sought safer refuge from Cap-Haitien, home to House of Blessings, our home for disabled and abandoned children. But there are not the mass queues Usually, families in the countryside are supported by the income earned by their city relatives. Now, these relatives, if they have survived, have returned back home with nothing but the clothes on their back. With no external income, we can only expect poverty to be increasing. I'm sure you already As you know, we will be continuing to work in Haiti, both with disabled and abandoned children through our House of Blessings project, and a new project for street children and restaveks. Keep your eyes peeled for updates on our next steps....

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Thank you - 01/02/2010 14:54

A huge thank you to everyone who has volunteered to go and help in Haiti. Thanks to your overwhelmingly generous response to offer your time and medical skills, we have a huge number of medical personnel who are now staffing our partners hospital facilities in the north of Haiti. Haiti Thank you so much for your help and support....

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