Haiti: two years on
On January 12 2010, Haiti was hit by a devastating earthquake that killed 230,000, destroyed 400,000 homes and left two million homeless.
In the past two years we have reached 1.2 million people with our life saving emergency response. With the help of our emergency fund, we were able to respond within 48 hours and reach 100,000 people with life saving aid within two weeks
Thank you to everyone who has helped support this work.If you want to help children caught up in emergencies in Haiti and around the world, please give to our emergency fund.
What we achieved in 2011:
- Provided over 40,000 people with sustained access to water and sanitation
- Responded to a cholera outbreak by setting up 10 new cholera treatment units (six more are on the way) that have treated over 11,000 adults and children
- Reached more than 120,000 people with health care
- Built 229 classrooms benefiting over 13,500 children
- Supported 23 schools to create emergency plans to better prepare for future disasters
- Responded to child protection needs of children by supporting the government-led database on separated children, which registered more than 3,500 children
- Worked with 40 child protection committees to identify, monitor and prevent child protection issues
- Re-built livelihoods, including providing financial support to 3,500 families
- Supported 30 facilities to provide care for pregnant women and newborn babies
- Formed 54 breastfeeding support groups that provide help to over 6,800 infant-mother pairs