CHF - Haiti Emergency Response

Summary

CHF has been giving supplies to rescue workers such as gloves, face masks, pick axes, shovels and sledge hammers; and we will be providing logistical support in the form of vehicles and drivers. project reportread updates from the field

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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

CHF, which has been undertaking one of the largest-funded infrastructure & employment programs in Haiti since 2006 will focus on recovery efforts within Port-au-Prince and surrounding areas. We have around 250 staff in Haiti already, including infrastructure and construction experts. Our team is conducting an immediate assessment of the damage - neighborhood by neighborhood, assisting with rubble removal and setting up a communications hub on the lawn of our office for the NGO community.

Activities

In the coming weeks & months, CHF will focus on the needs of the people as they transition from basic survival to recovery - transitional shelters, generating livelihoods through employing locals in clean up of community & reconstruction of buildings

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $42,766
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $57,234
Total Funding Goal: $100,000

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).

Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

Through CHF's response and programs, employment opportunities will be created, homes and building resistant to earthquakes will be reconstructed, livelihoods and communities will be restored for the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere.

Project Message

ALL socio-economic levels are affected – public/government, private (business, banks) schools, churches, homes, gas stations, supermarkets; rich, middle class, and poor have ALL been affected.
- Kristie van de Wetering, CHF Haiti

Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in HaitiHaiti and can also be found under Disaster RecoveryDisaster Recovery.

For more information about Haiti, read the Human Development Report on Haiti or the Wikipedia entry for Haiti.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on March 10, 2010.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on January 13, 2010

Latest Update from the Field

Working with Displaced Communities

By Natalie Taggart - Communications, March 10, 2010 01:41 PM

The camp at Parc Seminaire, Solino.
One of the important things about working with the community closely is that you both learn to respect each other. CHF focuses on community-based development. The workers we employ to clean up are from the community, and our community mobilizers are key to all these efforts.
From David Humphries, CHF Communications Manager on the ground in Port au Prince:
One of the community mobilizers, Civille, took me to his home in the improvised camp at Parc Seminaire in Solino, one of the areas we are surveying for building transitional shelters. 1500 families live in the camp so maybe 7,000 - 10,000 people. But the camp is downhill from the major settlements that they have abandoned, and with the rains, it had become a swamp. As Dede, my Haitian guide, said to me: “Welcome to the Third World.”
They had tents that had been distributed by a relief agency, but the tents were soaked in mud, and the canal, which passed by the camp was blocked and had the stench of raw sewage. The children ran up to me shouting ‘Yo!’ and ‘Hey, you!’ and asking for their picture to be taken – not a common experience in Haiti, where people prefer to avoid the camera. In fact, despite their living conditions and this being a ‘red zone’ we were welcomed by everyone. Perhaps that is the benefit of working with the community.
I hope that we can provide this area with suitable shelter as soon as possible.

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