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Haiti: Our progress so far

One year after the earthquake, Norwegian Church Aid takes a look back at the work done so far through partners in Haiti.

Clean water and safe sanitation:

  • 330,000 litres of clean water delivered daily
  • 546 latrines placed in camps and neighbourhoods and are regularly desludged and cleaned
  • Around 100 showers installed
  • 25 hand-wash stands
  • Around 3000 mobile toilets have been built and installed by NCA and partners.
  • 13 wells have been drilled and equipped with hand pumps for use by schools
  • 17 water distribution units set up in Gressier.

Psychosocial activities:

  • 500 children and young people given access to sport and cultural activities every day: dance, football, capoeira and music. All participants receive one free hot meal every day.
  • 16 psychosocial health personnel are at work five days a week in four camps to inform and train camp residents with a focus on learning, relaxation, discussion, advice and enjoyment.
  • Training has been given in handicrafts such as weaving handbags out of recycled, discarded potato-chip packets.

Health and hygiene:

  • Collection of rubbish in 12 camps and hygiene training.
  • 200 patients receive emergency treatment every day at our health clinic
  • 50 young people have been trained in health and hygiene and are now training residents in their local neighbourhoods
  • Equipment for newborn care distributed to 2500 new mothers
  • Hygiene training in 14 camps that has so far reached 25,000 people

Distribution of shelter and other equipment

  • Tents for 10,000 people
  • Home start-up materials for around 60,000 people
  • Hygiene kits (soap, toilet paper, water purification tablets etc) for 10,000 people. A great deal more distributed by our sister organizations through the ACT Alliance.

Food:

  • Distribution of food to 90,000 people and 100 children. This has recently been reduced to 35,000 people
  • Around 35,000 people have received seeds to allow them to grow their own food

Education:

  • 26 school tents delivered to five schools in Leogane, Petite Goave and Grand Goave, reaching over 20,000 students. Three tents delivered to schools for children with disabilities.
  • 1493 students and 36 teachers at 15 schools trained in health and hygiene when wells and hand pumps were installed at their schools.
  • Seven schools have been cleared for rubble
  • Four schools have received biogass systems to treat human waste and produce biogas for use in food preparation.
  • 432 teachers trained in psychosocial work with children, including training in how to recognize and deal with signs of stress among children
  • Training in issues such as HIV, human rights, alcohol, substance abuse etc
  • Rubble clearing in the streets through cash-for-work programmes
  • Removal of rubble from collapsed houses and other buildings (around 84 m3 daily)

Cholera prevention activities:

  • Information dissemination in all camps about how to prevent infection
  • Hygiene equipment distributed to 25,500 people
  • 300,000 chlorine tablets distributed
  • Health clinic with seven beds has so far treated 70 people
  • Extra training in hygiene and cholera prevention as well as distribution of chlorine and rehydration salts has taken place in already-existing programmes

Other activities:

  • 13 km roads rehabilitated
  • 10 hectares of riverbanks have been planted and secured
  • 15,000 trees planted along riverbanks to prevent flooding and/or pollution of camp areas
  • 8 greenhouses for trees established

Norwegian Church Aid coordinates its work and cooperates with:

WFP, MINUSTAH, embassies of Brazil, Canada, Switzerland, ACT-Alliance, local authorities, national authorities, CAP, OCHA, DINEPA, CAMEP, UNICEF, UNEP, UNDP, UNHABITAT.

Published: 12.01.2011

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