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HAITI: Emergency Appeal for Earthquake

On 12th January 2010, Haiti was hit by the tenth most deadly natural disaster ever recorded. 230,000 perished as the 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck near the capital, Port-au-Prince. Check out all our Haiti updates on our campaign site >>

Even before the earthquake Haiti was already a country riddled with problems. Roughly 80% of its population live below the national poverty line, making Haiti one of the poorest countries in the western hemisphere. Emergency Aid With our partners in the north, Haiti Hospital Appeal, we were able to provide immediate support to the survivors by providing food, water and medical assistance. Helping Haiti to recover from this disaster requires more than simply short term emergency aid. Haiti needs our long term investment in order to start on the road to recovery. Croix des Missions Croix des Missions is one of the most overcrowded slum areas surrounding Port-au-Prince. Most of the children there live in poverty and cannot afford an education. As their mothers usually work in during the days, the children spend their days on the crime-filled streets, leaving them at risk of child labour and exploitation, or playing by the polluted river, exposing them to dangerous pathogens. Our partners in Port-au-Prince, Outreach International, have been supporting a primary school in Croix des Missions for a number of years. Tuition fees for the school are variable, depending on what each family is able to afford, enabling even the poorest children to attend. Rebuilding Haiti Despite still standing, the school building suffered serious damage during the earthquake and is unsafe. In partnership with Outreach International and Article 25, we are repairing the school building, strengthening it to ensure disaster resistance and refurbishing it to make a more pleasant learning environment for the children. We want to be more than simply a foreign agency providing transient help, we want our assistance and your support to have a lasting effect. We are involving the community at all stages, including employing local people for the unskilled tasks and running training programmes on site to develop local building skills.

Regina's Story Regina is 3 years old. Everything she had ever known was destroyed in the earthquake in Port-au-Prince. Her home is now a pile of rubble, her mother was found dead under the broken bed. One of many orphans now in Port-au-Prince, Regina was lucky enough to have other relatives to take care of her. They took her from Port-au-Prince and travelled up north to Cap-Haïtien to beg for help from the local church. Thankfully, through the work we have been doing with the local churches, the pastor there noticed that Regina was disabled and knew to refer her to our House of Blessings. The pastor is now working with the family to support Regina. She comes to our House of Blessings three days a week for physiotherapy and other support. Containers from the UK should be arriving shortly with much needed supplies which can be given to help Regina's family.

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