HAITI UPDATE

Meeting physical and spiritual needs worldwide

6 MONTHS LATER

Event occurrence
January 12, 2010 (7.0 quake)

230,000 killed
300,000 injured
1 million homeless

FH Response Areas

Suburban Port-au-Prince – Siloe

Bellevue La Montagne, Kenscoff, Aux Cadets – rural zones
near Petionville
Belledare – near Dominican Republic border
50,000 displaced, 120,000 needing long-term help in these
communities.

FH History in Haiti

FH was working before the quake with child survival, health and
HIV prevention and care, in Delmas (Port-au-Prince), slums in
Petionville, and rural communities in Bellevue La Montagne.
For two years before the quake, FH assisted more than 600 people living with HIV (PLHIV, providing hygiene kits, home
reparation, food, microcredit, vocational school and school tuition, and home-based care training.
Child sponsorship programs near the Dominican Republic border have been operating since 2008.

FH Response: The First Six Months

Primary Health Care

Treated 10,300 patients with mobile clinics and short-term teams, including two teams of Haitian medical professionals.
Most common illnesses included respiratory illnesses, infections, amputees with complications, STD testing, treatment
and referrals. The mobile clinics are ongoing.

Provided medical supplies for 5 hospitals and 2 clinics.

Hygiene

Multiplied efforts via the “cascade” training model:

- 20 trainers trained 1,700 leader mothers.
- Leader mothers each trained 10 people.
- Result: 17,000 “neighbor mothers” trained in basic hygiene.

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Hand washing training included “tippy taps,” water containers suspended from a tree or bush so children and adults can
wash their hands easily. This idea caught on so fast that people who had not even received training copied tippy taps
they saw at their neighbor’s house.

Trainings included: Water purification (via chlorine tablets), water storage, waste disposal, latrine use and cleanliness,
and de-worming.

Non-Food Item (NFI) Distributions

- Over 3,600 families helped.

- Family distribution items included tarps (relief housing), jerry cans, hygiene kits and kitchen utensils (exact composition
of distributions varied by region).
- Hygiene kit contents included toothpaste, soap, rubbing alcohol, razors, cotton and feminine hygiene products.
- Supplied hundreds of water filtration systems capable of delivering up to 600 gallons of clean water per day.
- Delivered tens of thousands of packaged meals to families in need.

Child Protection

- 65 Child-Friendly Spaces (CFS) created, giving 9,750 children a safe place to play.
- More than 2,500 children already matched with child sponsors.
- 1,290 local volunteers trained in children’s recreation, children’s ministry, and identifying children who may need
professional trauma counseling.
- Local volunteers and 151 additional community leaders trained in prevention of domestic violence, gender-based
violence and child trafficking.

FH is at “Ground Zero” for Child Protection Efforts

FH’s work area in the rural mountain region near Petionville (Bellevue La Montagne, Aux Cadets, Kenscoff) is one of the
primary places where children are recruited as “restaviks,” child slaves in urban households.
FH’s work zone near the border with the Dominican Republic is now one of the prime areas where children are trafficked
out of Haiti.

Transitional Shelter

- 320 shelters already built, with the future target of 800.

- Target recipients are female-headed households.
- It takes approximately three hours of work to construct one home and recipients must first clear the site of rubble prior
to building.
- Shelters replace improvised shelter made of tarps, cardboard, scraps and other materials, often combined with half-
ruined walls of houses.
- Shelters are designed to withstand Category 2 hurricanes:
They are made of wood and metal sheeting that can be used to build permanent housing.

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 Metal roofs are corrugated to direct rainwater into catchment containers.

Sanitation

52 two-hole latrines were constructed.

Goal: One latrine at each Child Friendly Spaces location.

Cash for Work

- Cash for work programs help the local economy by creating jobs and providing cash for food and other necessities.
- Participants work to clear rubble from roads and house plots, so traffic can move and rebuilding can begin.
- 1,600 workers have participated, with nearly 40% of them women (all workers must be at least 18 years old).
- 1,241 plots have been cleared.

Church Involvement

- Churches helped assess the conditions immediately after the quake.

- Several churches served as distribution points for food, water and other non-food items.
- Many of the Child Friendly Spaces are on church property, with church volunteers and leaders trained in child protection.

What is next for Haiti?

Health

Shift from mobile medical clinics to local partners who run community health centers. Two centers targeted in particular:
Peace Hospital (urban, Siloe) and Aux Cadet (rural).

Water

- Requesting 200 gallon water tanks for Child Friendly Spaces, schools and health clinics.
- Assessing further NFI (non-food item) needs.

Child Friendly Spaces

- Continuing to register children for the child sponsorship program in Aux Cadet and Siloe.
- Monitoring evidence for PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) in children, which typically surface at the 6-12 month
mark.

Shelter

Reaching goal of 800 shelters.

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