READ THE THREE YEARS UPDATE ON DEC MEMBER AGENCIES WORK IN HAITI.
HAITI BEFORE THE 2010 EARTHQUAKE
- Haiti was 145th of 169 countries in the UN Human Development Index, which is the lowest in the Western Hemisphere
- More than 70% of people in Haiti were living on less than per day
- 86% of people in Port au Prince were living in slum conditions - mostly tightly-packed, poorly-built, concrete buildings.
- 80% of education in Haiti was provided in often poor-quality private schools, the state system generally provided better education but provided far too few places
- Half of people in Port-au-Prince had no access to latrines and only one-third has access to tap water
IMPACT OF THE 12 JANUARY 2010 EARTHQUAKE
- 7.0 Magnitude Quake struck near Port au Prince
- 3,500,000 people were affected by the quake
- 220,000 people estimated to have died
- 300,000+ people were injured
- Over 188,383 houses were badly damaged and 105,000 were destroyed by the earthquake (293,383 in total), 1.5m people became homeless
- After the quake there were 19 million cubic metres of rubble and debris in Port au Prince – enough to fill a line of shipping containers stretching end to end from London to Beirut.
- 4,000 schools were damaged or destroyed
- 25% of civil servants in Port au Prince died
- 60% of Government and administrative buildings, 80% of schools in Port-au-Prince and 60% of schools in the South and West Departments were destroyed or damaged
- Over 600,000 people left their home area in Port-au-Prince and mostly stayed with host families
- At its peak, one and a half million people were living in camps including over 100,000 at critical risk from storms and flooding
- Unrelated to the earthquake but causing aid response challenges was the outbreak of cholera in October 2010. By July 2011 5,899 had died as a result of the outbreak, and 216,000 were infected
DEC RELIEF AND RECONSTRUCTION HEADLINE ACHIEVEMENTS
- The DEC Appeal has now raised £107m – two-thirds directly and one-third through its member agencies – which will be spent over three years
- DEC agencies and their partners have nearly £380m to spend in total from all sources
- 1.8million people reached by DEC funded aid
RESPONSE AND RECOVERY JULY 2010 - JULY 2012
(This is in addition to the aid delivered between January 2010 - July 2010)
- Improving the water supply of 340,000 people
- Supplying drugs to five cholera treatment facilities serving 18,000 people
- Providing free medical care to 39,000 people
- Giving tools and seeds to help 23,000 people in farming households support themselves
- Providing improved shelter for 34,000 people
- Giving information to 116,000 people about preparing for future disasters
- Running literary classes for 60,000 vulnerable women to help them support themselves and their families
- Training camp committee members to defend 25,000 camp residents from forced eviction.
READ THE THREE YEARS UPDATE ON DEC MEMBER AGENCIES WORK IN HAITI.