notes: HAITI HEALTH CLUSTER BULLETIN #14 – PAGE 4 - 1/14/11 World Vision is operating 22 ORPs, and one CTU. Five more CTUs and one CTC are being established, while three ORPs are closing. World Vision continues to collect information on needs according to department, municipality, municipal section, city and village. World Vision is also supporting 12 hospitals in Port-au-Prince, the Central Plateau and Gonaive, through the provision of supplies, such as medicines, and the training of staff on cholera prevention. ---------------------------------------- FROM RELIEF WEB: Haiti: World Vision prepares for potential severe weather admidst ongoing cholera, quake response work Source: World Vision Date: 30 Oct 2010 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE World Vision prepares for potential severe weather amidst ongoing cholera, quake response work · Forecasters predict Tropical Storm Tomas may grow into a hurricane over the weekend · Aid agency says severe weather, cholera outbreak and ongoing quake response "testing Haiti's limits" PORT-AU-PRINCE, 29 October 2010 – As forecasters watch Tropical Storm Tomas in the Caribbean, World Vision's relief team is preparing for the possibility of severe weather this weekend in Haiti. "Our rapid response team is mobilizing right now to do everything it can in the next 24 to 48 hours to help mitigate the effects of this storm," said Sabrina Pourmand-Nolen, World Vision's emergency program director in Haiti. "First the earthquake, then the cholera outbreak, and now the possibility of severe weather here; all of it is testing the limits of Haiti." The Christian relief agency is carrying out a number of activities in the next several days to help prepare the children and families in its camps in Port-au-Prince for the storm. Activities include: · Distributing hurricane preparedness messages (identify a safe place, listen for radio updates, have phones charged, keep important documents in plastic bags, stock essential items if possible, and secure your tents) in both French and Creole. · Temporarily dismantling the Child Friendly Spaces tents. · Ensuring all water tanks are full and latrines are desludged and secured. · Mobilizing a post-storm rapid assessment team. · Securing contents of the health tents but continue to keep open (as much as possible) to provide preventative measures for cholera. In addition, World Vision is working with other agencies, including the American Refugee Committee and Oxfam at Corail, to protect the families in those camps, including establishing the warehouse at Corail as an emergency shelter. "The effect of these natural disasters and the outbreak highlight the ongoing vulnerability here," said Pourmand-Nolen. "It is a reminder to the international community that one of the most critical things that must happen for Haiti to recover from the multiple tragedies this year is a commitment to build its infrastructure. Access to clean water, sanitation facilities, health care and education will create a stronger Haiti in the future." ===================================== 4/10 http://www.worldvision.org/content.nsf/learn/haiti-update-more-work?Open&lpos=ctr_txt_ReadMoreMoreWork HAITI EARTHQUAKE 3 MONTH UPDATE Protecting children Providing shelter Renewing opportunity Restoring health Preventing illness - World Vision will continue working to improve the sanitary conditions in displacement camps throughout Port-au-Prince. We’ll partner with displaced communities to clear the camps of garbage, dig garbage pits, lay proper drainage systems, and more. Our priority is to help families stay healthy now and during the coming rainy season. ================================= FACEBOOK - http://www.facebook.com/worldvision In partnership with Operation Hope for Haiti http://www.operationhopehaiti.com/ ================= FROM THE WEBSITE: Haiti: Concern for children grows 16 Jan 2010 - By World Vision staff World Vision relief workers, in a race against time to save lives in Haiti, got a boost as relief goods began arriving in Haiti’s quake-ravaged capital city yesterday. Meanwhile, World Vision staff's concern for Haiti’s children continues to grow as they find more and more children separated from their parents. Broken infrastructure a key challenge Difficulties with broken infrastructure, limited airport capacity and concerns about potential security threats in Haiti slowed the delivery of humanitarian supplies to hard-hit areas in the first days after the quake. Even ambulances are in short supply, reported World Vision staff. “The basics are the hardest,” said Dave Toycen, president of World Vision Canada. “There was a mile-long line for gasoline. It's a logistical maze out here.” The security situation could change rapidly if shortages of food, water and other basic supplies reach a critical level, the agency warned. With thousands in Port-au-Prince left homeless by destroyed or badly damaged houses, many are sleeping in the streets or at spontaneous settlements in public parks and other spaces. World Vision staff have seen people living in very unsanitary and hazardous conditions. Supplies running low; resupply begins World Vision, which has worked in Haiti more than 30 years, today reached an additional 1,000 families with relief items already stored in the country, but many urgent items such as clean water, medical supplies and emergency shelter resources were running low. Toycen reported via Twitter: “Distributions are in full force - trying to reach as many people as possible. Still a steep curve to reach all those affected.” World Vision’s supply chain is ramping up to bring in badly needed supplies. The first of a series of flights bringing emergency supplies for World Vision relief efforts in Haiti touched down in Port-au-Prince on Friday evening. A Hercules C130 brought items such as hygiene kits, blankets, water containers, and shelter materials from World Vision’s warehouse in Denver. The aid group is planning more flights this weekend from Panama City, Toronto, and an additional flight from Denver, bringing more supplies, including medicines, tents, and shovels to remove debris. World Vision staff are finding alternatives to the congested Port-au-Prince airport, including bringing supplies overland from airports and ports in the Dominican Republic, where the agency has a sizable presence. Provide first aid World Vision teams have distributed first-aid supplies to more than ten hospitals in the Port-au-Prince area. “Some volunteer teachers have been performing first aid for the past day or two to those who have been injured,” reported Toycen. However, he fears many will die of their injuries if not tended to soon. “We are racing against the clock.” Many of the injured have started to develop gangrene because they did not receive timely and adequate medical care. Family members of patients are taking measures into their own hands since the hospital system is completely overwhelmed and suffering serious structural damages; one World Vision volunteer saw an amputation performed in the hallways of the general hospital using unhygienic tools. World Vision volunteers also have seen a severed foot become an amputated leg because the wounds were not sterilised. Amputation tools and supplies to sterilise wounds are in short supply; World Vision anticipates a need for significant amounts of crutches and braces for earthquake amputees. Children alone and at risk World Vision has started to identify children who have become separated from their parents. The organisation has expressed concern about the number of children who are leaving Port-au-Prince and walking into towns outside the city to find help. World Vision’s Dominican Republic staff in the border town of Jimani are helping provide food, water, and medical care to hundreds of unaccompanied children who fled Port-au-Prince for the border, either alone or who became separated from parents along the way. There were a significant number of children in orphanages prior to the disaster, and World Vision staff acknowledge that the earthquake certainly has created more orphans. Because the quake struck during school hours, there are hundreds of children who simply have not found their parents. ============================ http://www.worldvision.org/content.nsf/learn/haiti-relief?OpenDocument&lpos=top_drp_OurWork_HaitiRelief ---------------------------- WASH CLUSTER CONTACTS (Sanitation/Hygiene): Andrew Jalanski andrew.jalanski @worldvision.com.au Elvire Douglas - elvire_douglas @wvi.org 011-509-3448-4158 ------------------------------ SHELTER CLUSTER: David_Kehoe @wvi.org (works dist.) Lindsay Gladding Program Officer linsay-gladding@worldvision.ca 011-509-3452- 4843 ----------------------------- CCCM (Camp) Cluster: Lindsay Gladding 011-509-3452-4843 Liz Satow liz_satow @wvi.org (+41) 797440668 Rod Imer rod_imer @wvi.org (+41)788679673 Martha Gomez Andrade martagomezdeandrade @gmail.com, Kris Sullens kristin_sullens @wvi.org 34524843 Enos Wambua enos_wambua @wvi.org --------------------------------- EDUCATION CLUSTER CONTACTS: World Vision - Patricia Hartasanchez - phartasa @worldvision.org - 34524858/51 World Vision International - Dom Keyzer - dominic.keyzer @worldvision.com.au - 39338972 World Vision - Kela Vales - vales_kela @wvi.org - (509) 22570949/0969 (509) 510 9498 / (509) 3465 8434 -> HAITI HEALTH CLUSTER BULLETIN #14 – PAGE 4 - 1/14/11 World Vision is operating 22 ORPs, and one CTU. Five more CTUs and one CTC are being established, while three ORPs are closing. World Vision continues to collect information on needs according to department, municipality, municipal section, city and village. World Vision is also supporting 12 hospitals in Port-au-Prince, the Central Plateau and Gonaive, through the provision of supplies, such as medicines, and the training of staff on cholera prevention. HAITI HEALTH CLUSTER BULLETIN #14 – PAGE 9 - 1/14/11: Last week, World Vision trained 70 Health Promoters in cholera prevention and treatment. They also trained 1,475 individuals in proper sanitation and hygiene as a cholera prevention tactic. ---------------------------------------- FROM RELIEF WEB: Haiti: World Vision prepares for potential severe weather admidst ongoing cholera, quake response work Source: World Vision Date: 30 Oct 2010 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE World Vision prepares for potential severe weather amidst ongoing cholera, quake response work · Forecasters predict Tropical Storm Tomas may grow into a hurricane over the weekend · Aid agency says severe weather, cholera outbreak and ongoing quake response "testing Haiti's limits" PORT-AU-PRINCE, 29 October 2010 – As forecasters watch Tropical Storm Tomas in the Caribbean, World Vision's relief team is preparing for the possibility of severe weather this weekend in Haiti. "Our rapid response team is mobilizing right now to do everything it can in the next 24 to 48 hours to help mitigate the effects of this storm," said Sabrina Pourmand-Nolen, World Vision's emergency program director in Haiti. "First the earthquake, then the cholera outbreak, and now the possibility of severe weather here; all of it is testing the limits of Haiti." The Christian relief agency is carrying out a number of activities in the next several days to help prepare the children and families in its camps in Port-au-Prince for the storm. Activities include: · Distributing hurricane preparedness messages (identify a safe place, listen for radio updates, have phones charged, keep important documents in plastic bags, stock essential items if possible, and secure your tents) in both French and Creole. · Temporarily dismantling the Child Friendly Spaces tents. · Ensuring all water tanks are full and latrines are desludged and secured. · Mobilizing a post-storm rapid assessment team. · Securing contents of the health tents but continue to keep open (as much as possible) to provide preventative measures for cholera. In addition, World Vision is working with other agencies, including the American Refugee Committee and Oxfam at Corail, to protect the families in those camps, including establishing the warehouse at Corail as an emergency shelter. "The effect of these natural disasters and the outbreak highlight the ongoing vulnerability here," said Pourmand-Nolen. "It is a reminder to the international community that one of the most critical things that must happen for Haiti to recover from the multiple tragedies this year is a commitment to build its infrastructure. Access to clean water, sanitation facilities, health care and education will create a stronger Haiti in the future." ===================================== 4/10 http://www.worldvision.org/content.nsf/learn/haiti-update-more-work?Open&lpos=ctr_txt_ReadMoreMoreWork HAITI EARTHQUAKE 3 MONTH UPDATE Protecting children Providing shelter Renewing opportunity Restoring health Preventing illness - World Vision will continue working to improve the sanitary conditions in displacement camps throughout Port-au-Prince. We’ll partner with displaced communities to clear the camps of garbage, dig garbage pits, lay proper drainage systems, and more. Our priority is to help families stay healthy now and during the coming rainy season. ================================= FACEBOOK - http://www.facebook.com/worldvision In partnership with Operation Hope for Haiti http://www.operationhopehaiti.com/ ================= FROM THE WEBSITE: Haiti: Concern for children grows 16 Jan 2010 - By World Vision staff World Vision relief workers, in a race against time to save lives in Haiti, got a boost as relief goods began arriving in Haiti’s quake-ravaged capital city yesterday. Meanwhile, World Vision staff's concern for Haiti’s children continues to grow as they find more and more children separated from their parents. Broken infrastructure a key challenge Difficulties with broken infrastructure, limited airport capacity and concerns about potential security threats in Haiti slowed the delivery of humanitarian supplies to hard-hit areas in the first days after the quake. Even ambulances are in short supply, reported World Vision staff. “The basics are the hardest,” said Dave Toycen, president of World Vision Canada. “There was a mile-long line for gasoline. It's a logistical maze out here.” The security situation could change rapidly if shortages of food, water and other basic supplies reach a critical level, the agency warned. With thousands in Port-au-Prince left homeless by destroyed or badly damaged houses, many are sleeping in the streets or at spontaneous settlements in public parks and other spaces. World Vision staff have seen people living in very unsanitary and hazardous conditions. Supplies running low; resupply begins World Vision, which has worked in Haiti more than 30 years, today reached an additional 1,000 families with relief items already stored in the country, but many urgent items such as clean water, medical supplies and emergency shelter resources were running low. Toycen reported via Twitter: “Distributions are in full force - trying to reach as many people as possible. Still a steep curve to reach all those affected.” World Vision’s supply chain is ramping up to bring in badly needed supplies. The first of a series of flights bringing emergency supplies for World Vision relief efforts in Haiti touched down in Port-au-Prince on Friday evening. A Hercules C130 brought items such as hygiene kits, blankets, water containers, and shelter materials from World Vision’s warehouse in Denver. The aid group is planning more flights this weekend from Panama City, Toronto, and an additional flight from Denver, bringing more supplies, including medicines, tents, and shovels to remove debris. World Vision staff are finding alternatives to the congested Port-au-Prince airport, including bringing supplies overland from airports and ports in the Dominican Republic, where the agency has a sizable presence. Provide first aid World Vision teams have distributed first-aid supplies to more than ten hospitals in the Port-au-Prince area. “Some volunteer teachers have been performing first aid for the past day or two to those who have been injured,” reported Toycen. However, he fears many will die of their injuries if not tended to soon. “We are racing against the clock.” Many of the injured have started to develop gangrene because they did not receive timely and adequate medical care. Family members of patients are taking measures into their own hands since the hospital system is completely overwhelmed and suffering serious structural damages; one World Vision volunteer saw an amputation performed in the hallways of the general hospital using unhygienic tools. World Vision volunteers also have seen a severed foot become an amputated leg because the wounds were not sterilised. Amputation tools and supplies to sterilise wounds are in short supply; World Vision anticipates a need for significant amounts of crutches and braces for earthquake amputees. Children alone and at risk World Vision has started to identify children who have become separated from their parents. The organisation has expressed concern about the number of children who are leaving Port-au-Prince and walking into towns outside the city to find help. World Vision’s Dominican Republic staff in the border town of Jimani are helping provide food, water, and medical care to hundreds of unaccompanied children who fled Port-au-Prince for the border, either alone or who became separated from parents along the way. There were a significant number of children in orphanages prior to the disaster, and World Vision staff acknowledge that the earthquake certainly has created more orphans. Because the quake struck during school hours, there are hundreds of children who simply have not found their parents. ============================ http://www.worldvision.org/content.nsf/learn/haiti-relief?OpenDocument&lpos=top_drp_OurWork_HaitiRelief ---------------------------- WASH CLUSTER CONTACTS (Sanitation/Hygiene): Andrew Jalanski andrew.jalanski @worldvision.com.au Elvire Douglas - elvire_douglas @wvi.org 011-509-3448-4158 ------------------------------ SHELTER CLUSTER: David_Kehoe @wvi.org (works dist.) Lindsay Gladding Program Officer linsay-gladding@worldvision.ca 011-509-3452- 4843 ----------------------------- CCCM (Camp) Cluster: Lindsay Gladding 011-509-3452-4843 Liz Satow liz_satow @wvi.org (+41) 797440668 Rod Imer rod_imer @wvi.org (+41)788679673 Martha Gomez Andrade martagomezdeandrade @gmail.com, Kris Sullens kristin_sullens @wvi.org 34524843 Enos Wambua enos_wambua @wvi.org --------------------------------- EDUCATION CLUSTER CONTACTS: World Vision - Patricia Hartasanchez - phartasa @worldvision.org - 34524858/51 World Vision International - Dom Keyzer - dominic.keyzer @worldvision.com.au - 39338972 World Vision - Kela Vales - vales_kela @wvi.org - (509) 22570949/0969 (509) 510 9498 / (509) 3465 8434

name: World Vision International - 2010 Haiti Earthquake - (DIST.: FOOD/HYGIENE-COOKING KITS/SHELTER SUPPLIES/WATER CONTAINERS/BLANKETS) -> World Vision International
notes: FROM RELIEF WEB: Haiti: World Vision prepares for potential severe weather admidst ongoing cholera, quake response work Source: World Vision Date: 30 Oct 2010 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE World Vision prepares for potential severe weather amidst ongoing cholera, quake response work · Forecasters predict Tropical Storm Tomas may grow into a hurricane over the weekend · Aid agency says severe weather, cholera outbreak and ongoing quake response "testing Haiti's limits" PORT-AU-PRINCE, 29 October 2010 – As forecasters watch Tropical Storm Tomas in the Caribbean, World Vision's relief team is preparing for the possibility of severe weather this weekend in Haiti. "Our rapid response team is mobilizing right now to do everything it can in the next 24 to 48 hours to help mitigate the effects of this storm," said Sabrina Pourmand-Nolen, World Vision's emergency program director in Haiti. "First the earthquake, then the cholera outbreak, and now the possibility of severe weather here; all of it is testing the limits of Haiti." The Christian relief agency is carrying out a number of activities in the next several days to help prepare the children and families in its camps in Port-au-Prince for the storm. Activities include: · Distributing hurricane preparedness messages (identify a safe place, listen for radio updates, have phones charged, keep important documents in plastic bags, stock essential items if possible, and secure your tents) in both French and Creole. · Temporarily dismantling the Child Friendly Spaces tents. · Ensuring all water tanks are full and latrines are desludged and secured. · Mobilizing a post-storm rapid assessment team. · Securing contents of the health tents but continue to keep open (as much as possible) to provide preventative measures for cholera. In addition, World Vision is working with other agencies, including the American Refugee Committee and Oxfam at Corail, to protect the families in those camps, including establishing the warehouse at Corail as an emergency shelter. "The effect of these natural disasters and the outbreak highlight the ongoing vulnerability here," said Pourmand-Nolen. "It is a reminder to the international community that one of the most critical things that must happen for Haiti to recover from the multiple tragedies this year is a commitment to build its infrastructure. Access to clean water, sanitation facilities, health care and education will create a stronger Haiti in the future." ===================================== 4/10 http://www.worldvision.org/content.nsf/learn/haiti-update-more-work?Open&lpos=ctr_txt_ReadMoreMoreWork HAITI EARTHQUAKE 3 MONTH UPDATE Protecting children Providing shelter Renewing opportunity Restoring health Preventing illness - World Vision will continue working to improve the sanitary conditions in displacement camps throughout Port-au-Prince. We’ll partner with displaced communities to clear the camps of garbage, dig garbage pits, lay proper drainage systems, and more. Our priority is to help families stay healthy now and during the coming rainy season. ================================= FACEBOOK - http://www.facebook.com/worldvision In partnership with Operation Hope for Haiti http://www.operationhopehaiti.com/ ================= FROM THE WEBSITE: Haiti: Concern for children grows 16 Jan 2010 - By World Vision staff World Vision relief workers, in a race against time to save lives in Haiti, got a boost as relief goods began arriving in Haiti’s quake-ravaged capital city yesterday. Meanwhile, World Vision staff's concern for Haiti’s children continues to grow as they find more and more children separated from their parents. Broken infrastructure a key challenge Difficulties with broken infrastructure, limited airport capacity and concerns about potential security threats in Haiti slowed the delivery of humanitarian supplies to hard-hit areas in the first days after the quake. Even ambulances are in short supply, reported World Vision staff. “The basics are the hardest,” said Dave Toycen, president of World Vision Canada. “There was a mile-long line for gasoline. It's a logistical maze out here.” The security situation could change rapidly if shortages of food, water and other basic supplies reach a critical level, the agency warned. With thousands in Port-au-Prince left homeless by destroyed or badly damaged houses, many are sleeping in the streets or at spontaneous settlements in public parks and other spaces. World Vision staff have seen people living in very unsanitary and hazardous conditions. Supplies running low; resupply begins World Vision, which has worked in Haiti more than 30 years, today reached an additional 1,000 families with relief items already stored in the country, but many urgent items such as clean water, medical supplies and emergency shelter resources were running low. Toycen reported via Twitter: “Distributions are in full force - trying to reach as many people as possible. Still a steep curve to reach all those affected.” World Vision’s supply chain is ramping up to bring in badly needed supplies. The first of a series of flights bringing emergency supplies for World Vision relief efforts in Haiti touched down in Port-au-Prince on Friday evening. A Hercules C130 brought items such as hygiene kits, blankets, water containers, and shelter materials from World Vision’s warehouse in Denver. The aid group is planning more flights this weekend from Panama City, Toronto, and an additional flight from Denver, bringing more supplies, including medicines, tents, and shovels to remove debris. World Vision staff are finding alternatives to the congested Port-au-Prince airport, including bringing supplies overland from airports and ports in the Dominican Republic, where the agency has a sizable presence. Provide first aid World Vision teams have distributed first-aid supplies to more than ten hospitals in the Port-au-Prince area. “Some volunteer teachers have been performing first aid for the past day or two to those who have been injured,” reported Toycen. However, he fears many will die of their injuries if not tended to soon. “We are racing against the clock.” Many of the injured have started to develop gangrene because they did not receive timely and adequate medical care. Family members of patients are taking measures into their own hands since the hospital system is completely overwhelmed and suffering serious structural damages; one World Vision volunteer saw an amputation performed in the hallways of the general hospital using unhygienic tools. World Vision volunteers also have seen a severed foot become an amputated leg because the wounds were not sterilised. Amputation tools and supplies to sterilise wounds are in short supply; World Vision anticipates a need for significant amounts of crutches and braces for earthquake amputees. Children alone and at risk World Vision has started to identify children who have become separated from their parents. The organisation has expressed concern about the number of children who are leaving Port-au-Prince and walking into towns outside the city to find help. World Vision’s Dominican Republic staff in the border town of Jimani are helping provide food, water, and medical care to hundreds of unaccompanied children who fled Port-au-Prince for the border, either alone or who became separated from parents along the way. There were a significant number of children in orphanages prior to the disaster, and World Vision staff acknowledge that the earthquake certainly has created more orphans. Because the quake struck during school hours, there are hundreds of children who simply have not found their parents. ============================ http://www.worldvision.org/content.nsf/learn/haiti-relief?OpenDocument&lpos=top_drp_OurWork_HaitiRelief ---------------------------- WASH CLUSTER CONTACTS (Sanitation/Hygiene): Andrew Jalanski andrew.jalanski @worldvision.com.au Elvire Douglas - elvire_douglas @wvi.org 011-509-3448-4158 ------------------------------ SHELTER CLUSTER: David_Kehoe @wvi.org (works dist.) Lindsay Gladding Program Officer linsay-gladding@worldvision.ca 011-509-3452- 4843 ----------------------------- CCCM (Camp) Cluster: Lindsay Gladding 011-509-3452-4843 Liz Satow liz_satow @wvi.org (+41) 797440668 Rod Imer rod_imer @wvi.org (+41)788679673 Martha Gomez Andrade martagomezdeandrade @gmail.com, Kris Sullens kristin_sullens @wvi.org 34524843 Enos Wambua enos_wambua @wvi.org --------------------------------- EDUCATION CLUSTER CONTACTS: World Vision - Patricia Hartasanchez - phartasa @worldvision.org - 34524858/51 World Vision International - Dom Keyzer - dominic.keyzer @worldvision.com.au - 39338972 World Vision - Kela Vales - vales_kela @wvi.org - (509) 22570949/0969 (509) 510 9498 / (509) 3465 8434 -> HAITI HEALTH CLUSTER BULLETIN #14 – PAGE 4 - 1/14/11 World Vision is operating 22 ORPs, and one CTU. Five more CTUs and one CTC are being established, while three ORPs are closing. World Vision continues to collect information on needs according to department, municipality, municipal section, city and village. World Vision is also supporting 12 hospitals in Port-au-Prince, the Central Plateau and Gonaive, through the provision of supplies, such as medicines, and the training of staff on cholera prevention. ---------------------------------------- FROM RELIEF WEB: Haiti: World Vision prepares for potential severe weather admidst ongoing cholera, quake response work Source: World Vision Date: 30 Oct 2010 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE World Vision prepares for potential severe weather amidst ongoing cholera, quake response work · Forecasters predict Tropical Storm Tomas may grow into a hurricane over the weekend · Aid agency says severe weather, cholera outbreak and ongoing quake response "testing Haiti's limits" PORT-AU-PRINCE, 29 October 2010 – As forecasters watch Tropical Storm Tomas in the Caribbean, World Vision's relief team is preparing for the possibility of severe weather this weekend in Haiti. "Our rapid response team is mobilizing right now to do everything it can in the next 24 to 48 hours to help mitigate the effects of this storm," said Sabrina Pourmand-Nolen, World Vision's emergency program director in Haiti. "First the earthquake, then the cholera outbreak, and now the possibility of severe weather here; all of it is testing the limits of Haiti." The Christian relief agency is carrying out a number of activities in the next several days to help prepare the children and families in its camps in Port-au-Prince for the storm. Activities include: · Distributing hurricane preparedness messages (identify a safe place, listen for radio updates, have phones charged, keep important documents in plastic bags, stock essential items if possible, and secure your tents) in both French and Creole. · Temporarily dismantling the Child Friendly Spaces tents. · Ensuring all water tanks are full and latrines are desludged and secured. · Mobilizing a post-storm rapid assessment team. · Securing contents of the health tents but continue to keep open (as much as possible) to provide preventative measures for cholera. In addition, World Vision is working with other agencies, including the American Refugee Committee and Oxfam at Corail, to protect the families in those camps, including establishing the warehouse at Corail as an emergency shelter. "The effect of these natural disasters and the outbreak highlight the ongoing vulnerability here," said Pourmand-Nolen. "It is a reminder to the international community that one of the most critical things that must happen for Haiti to recover from the multiple tragedies this year is a commitment to build its infrastructure. Access to clean water, sanitation facilities, health care and education will create a stronger Haiti in the future." ===================================== 4/10 http://www.worldvision.org/content.nsf/learn/haiti-update-more-work?Open&lpos=ctr_txt_ReadMoreMoreWork HAITI EARTHQUAKE 3 MONTH UPDATE Protecting children Providing shelter Renewing opportunity Restoring health Preventing illness - World Vision will continue working to improve the sanitary conditions in displacement camps throughout Port-au-Prince. We’ll partner with displaced communities to clear the camps of garbage, dig garbage pits, lay proper drainage systems, and more. Our priority is to help families stay healthy now and during the coming rainy season. ================================= FACEBOOK - http://www.facebook.com/worldvision In partnership with Operation Hope for Haiti http://www.operationhopehaiti.com/ ================= FROM THE WEBSITE: Haiti: Concern for children grows 16 Jan 2010 - By World Vision staff World Vision relief workers, in a race against time to save lives in Haiti, got a boost as relief goods began arriving in Haiti’s quake-ravaged capital city yesterday. Meanwhile, World Vision staff's concern for Haiti’s children continues to grow as they find more and more children separated from their parents. Broken infrastructure a key challenge Difficulties with broken infrastructure, limited airport capacity and concerns about potential security threats in Haiti slowed the delivery of humanitarian supplies to hard-hit areas in the first days after the quake. Even ambulances are in short supply, reported World Vision staff. “The basics are the hardest,” said Dave Toycen, president of World Vision Canada. “There was a mile-long line for gasoline. It's a logistical maze out here.” The security situation could change rapidly if shortages of food, water and other basic supplies reach a critical level, the agency warned. With thousands in Port-au-Prince left homeless by destroyed or badly damaged houses, many are sleeping in the streets or at spontaneous settlements in public parks and other spaces. World Vision staff have seen people living in very unsanitary and hazardous conditions. Supplies running low; resupply begins World Vision, which has worked in Haiti more than 30 years, today reached an additional 1,000 families with relief items already stored in the country, but many urgent items such as clean water, medical supplies and emergency shelter resources were running low. Toycen reported via Twitter: “Distributions are in full force - trying to reach as many people as possible. Still a steep curve to reach all those affected.” World Vision’s supply chain is ramping up to bring in badly needed supplies. The first of a series of flights bringing emergency supplies for World Vision relief efforts in Haiti touched down in Port-au-Prince on Friday evening. A Hercules C130 brought items such as hygiene kits, blankets, water containers, and shelter materials from World Vision’s warehouse in Denver. The aid group is planning more flights this weekend from Panama City, Toronto, and an additional flight from Denver, bringing more supplies, including medicines, tents, and shovels to remove debris. World Vision staff are finding alternatives to the congested Port-au-Prince airport, including bringing supplies overland from airports and ports in the Dominican Republic, where the agency has a sizable presence. Provide first aid World Vision teams have distributed first-aid supplies to more than ten hospitals in the Port-au-Prince area. “Some volunteer teachers have been performing first aid for the past day or two to those who have been injured,” reported Toycen. However, he fears many will die of their injuries if not tended to soon. “We are racing against the clock.” Many of the injured have started to develop gangrene because they did not receive timely and adequate medical care. Family members of patients are taking measures into their own hands since the hospital system is completely overwhelmed and suffering serious structural damages; one World Vision volunteer saw an amputation performed in the hallways of the general hospital using unhygienic tools. World Vision volunteers also have seen a severed foot become an amputated leg because the wounds were not sterilised. Amputation tools and supplies to sterilise wounds are in short supply; World Vision anticipates a need for significant amounts of crutches and braces for earthquake amputees. Children alone and at risk World Vision has started to identify children who have become separated from their parents. The organisation has expressed concern about the number of children who are leaving Port-au-Prince and walking into towns outside the city to find help. World Vision’s Dominican Republic staff in the border town of Jimani are helping provide food, water, and medical care to hundreds of unaccompanied children who fled Port-au-Prince for the border, either alone or who became separated from parents along the way. There were a significant number of children in orphanages prior to the disaster, and World Vision staff acknowledge that the earthquake certainly has created more orphans. Because the quake struck during school hours, there are hundreds of children who simply have not found their parents. ============================ http://www.worldvision.org/content.nsf/learn/haiti-relief?OpenDocument&lpos=top_drp_OurWork_HaitiRelief ---------------------------- WASH CLUSTER CONTACTS (Sanitation/Hygiene): Andrew Jalanski andrew.jalanski @worldvision.com.au Elvire Douglas - elvire_douglas @wvi.org 011-509-3448-4158 ------------------------------ SHELTER CLUSTER: David_Kehoe @wvi.org (works dist.) Lindsay Gladding Program Officer linsay-gladding@worldvision.ca 011-509-3452- 4843 ----------------------------- CCCM (Camp) Cluster: Lindsay Gladding 011-509-3452-4843 Liz Satow liz_satow @wvi.org (+41) 797440668 Rod Imer rod_imer @wvi.org (+41)788679673 Martha Gomez Andrade martagomezdeandrade @gmail.com, Kris Sullens kristin_sullens @wvi.org 34524843 Enos Wambua enos_wambua @wvi.org --------------------------------- EDUCATION CLUSTER CONTACTS: World Vision - Patricia Hartasanchez - phartasa @worldvision.org - 34524858/51 World Vision International - Dom Keyzer - dominic.keyzer @worldvision.com.au - 39338972 World Vision - Kela Vales - vales_kela @wvi.org - (509) 22570949/0969 (509) 510 9498 / (509) 3465 8434

name: World Vision International, Haiti (WASH/EDUCATION/PROTECTION/SHELTER/CAMP CLUSTERS) - (DIST.: FOOD/HYGIENE-COOKING KITS/SHELTER SUPPLIES/WATER CONTAINERS/BLANKETS) -> World Vision International - 2010 Haiti Earthquake - (DIST.: FOOD/HYGIENE-COOKING KITS/SHELTER SUPPLIES/WATER CONTAINERS/BLANKETS)
notes: FROM RELIEF WEB: Haiti: World Vision prepares for potential severe weather admidst ongoing cholera, quake response work Source: World Vision Date: 30 Oct 2010 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Laura Blank 646-245-2496 Amy Parodi 253-709-3190 World Vision prepares for potential severe weather amidst ongoing cholera, quake response work · Forecasters predict Tropical Storm Tomas may grow into a hurricane over the weekend · Aid agency says severe weather, cholera outbreak and ongoing quake response "testing Haiti's limits" PORT-AU-PRINCE, 29 October 2010 – As forecasters watch Tropical Storm Tomas in the Caribbean, World Vision's relief team is preparing for the possibility of severe weather this weekend in Haiti. "Our rapid response team is mobilizing right now to do everything it can in the next 24 to 48 hours to help mitigate the effects of this storm," said Sabrina Pourmand-Nolen, World Vision's emergency program director in Haiti. "First the earthquake, then the cholera outbreak, and now the possibility of severe weather here; all of it is testing the limits of Haiti." The Christian relief agency is carrying out a number of activities in the next several days to help prepare the children and families in its camps in Port-au-Prince for the storm. Activities include: · Distributing hurricane preparedness messages (identify a safe place, listen for radio updates, have phones charged, keep important documents in plastic bags, stock essential items if possible, and secure your tents) in both French and Creole. · Temporarily dismantling the Child Friendly Spaces tents. · Ensuring all water tanks are full and latrines are desludged and secured. · Mobilizing a post-storm rapid assessment team. · Securing contents of the health tents but continue to keep open (as much as possible) to provide preventative measures for cholera. In addition, World Vision is working with other agencies, including the American Refugee Committee and Oxfam at Corail, to protect the families in those camps, including establishing the warehouse at Corail as an emergency shelter. "The effect of these natural disasters and the outbreak highlight the ongoing vulnerability here," said Pourmand-Nolen. "It is a reminder to the international community that one of the most critical things that must happen for Haiti to recover from the multiple tragedies this year is a commitment to build its infrastructure. Access to clean water, sanitation facilities, health care and education will create a stronger Haiti in the future." ===================================== 4/10 http://www.worldvision.org/content.nsf/learn/haiti-update-more-work?Open&lpos=ctr_txt_ReadMoreMoreWork HAITI EARTHQUAKE 3 MONTH UPDATE Protecting children Providing shelter Renewing opportunity Restoring health Preventing illness - World Vision will continue working to improve the sanitary conditions in displacement camps throughout Port-au-Prince. We’ll partner with displaced communities to clear the camps of garbage, dig garbage pits, lay proper drainage systems, and more. Our priority is to help families stay healthy now and during the coming rainy season. ================================= FACEBOOK - http://www.facebook.com/worldvision In partnership with Operation Hope for Haiti http://www.operationhopehaiti.com/ ================= FROM THE WEBSITE: Haiti: Concern for children grows 16 Jan 2010 - By World Vision staff World Vision relief workers, in a race against time to save lives in Haiti, got a boost as relief goods began arriving in Haiti’s quake-ravaged capital city yesterday. Meanwhile, World Vision staff's concern for Haiti’s children continues to grow as they find more and more children separated from their parents. Broken infrastructure a key challenge Difficulties with broken infrastructure, limited airport capacity and concerns about potential security threats in Haiti slowed the delivery of humanitarian supplies to hard-hit areas in the first days after the quake. Even ambulances are in short supply, reported World Vision staff. “The basics are the hardest,” said Dave Toycen, president of World Vision Canada. “There was a mile-long line for gasoline. It's a logistical maze out here.” The security situation could change rapidly if shortages of food, water and other basic supplies reach a critical level, the agency warned. With thousands in Port-au-Prince left homeless by destroyed or badly damaged houses, many are sleeping in the streets or at spontaneous settlements in public parks and other spaces. World Vision staff have seen people living in very unsanitary and hazardous conditions. Supplies running low; resupply begins World Vision, which has worked in Haiti more than 30 years, today reached an additional 1,000 families with relief items already stored in the country, but many urgent items such as clean water, medical supplies and emergency shelter resources were running low. Toycen reported via Twitter: “Distributions are in full force - trying to reach as many people as possible. Still a steep curve to reach all those affected.” World Vision’s supply chain is ramping up to bring in badly needed supplies. The first of a series of flights bringing emergency supplies for World Vision relief efforts in Haiti touched down in Port-au-Prince on Friday evening. A Hercules C130 brought items such as hygiene kits, blankets, water containers, and shelter materials from World Vision’s warehouse in Denver. The aid group is planning more flights this weekend from Panama City, Toronto, and an additional flight from Denver, bringing more supplies, including medicines, tents, and shovels to remove debris. World Vision staff are finding alternatives to the congested Port-au-Prince airport, including bringing supplies overland from airports and ports in the Dominican Republic, where the agency has a sizable presence. Provide first aid World Vision teams have distributed first-aid supplies to more than ten hospitals in the Port-au-Prince area. “Some volunteer teachers have been performing first aid for the past day or two to those who have been injured,” reported Toycen. However, he fears many will die of their injuries if not tended to soon. “We are racing against the clock.” Many of the injured have started to develop gangrene because they did not receive timely and adequate medical care. Family members of patients are taking measures into their own hands since the hospital system is completely overwhelmed and suffering serious structural damages; one World Vision volunteer saw an amputation performed in the hallways of the general hospital using unhygienic tools. World Vision volunteers also have seen a severed foot become an amputated leg because the wounds were not sterilised. Amputation tools and supplies to sterilise wounds are in short supply; World Vision anticipates a need for significant amounts of crutches and braces for earthquake amputees. Children alone and at risk World Vision has started to identify children who have become separated from their parents. The organisation has expressed concern about the number of children who are leaving Port-au-Prince and walking into towns outside the city to find help. World Vision’s Dominican Republic staff in the border town of Jimani are helping provide food, water, and medical care to hundreds of unaccompanied children who fled Port-au-Prince for the border, either alone or who became separated from parents along the way. There were a significant number of children in orphanages prior to the disaster, and World Vision staff acknowledge that the earthquake certainly has created more orphans. Because the quake struck during school hours, there are hundreds of children who simply have not found their parents. ============================ http://www.worldvision.org/content.nsf/learn/haiti-relief?OpenDocument&lpos=top_drp_OurWork_HaitiRelief ---------------------------- WASH CLUSTER CONTACTS (Sanitation/Hygiene): Andrew Jalanski andrew.jalanski @worldvision.com.au Elvire Douglas - elvire_douglas @wvi.org 011-509-3448-4158 ------------------------------ SHELTER CLUSTER: David_Kehoe @wvi.org (works dist.) Lindsay Gladding Program Officer linsay-gladding@worldvision.ca 011-509-3452- 4843 ----------------------------- CCCM (Camp) Cluster: Lindsay Gladding 011-509-3452-4843 Liz Satow liz_satow @wvi.org (+41) 797440668 Rod Imer rod_imer @wvi.org (+41)788679673 Martha Gomez Andrade martagomezdeandrade @gmail.com, Kris Sullens kristin_sullens @wvi.org 34524843 Enos Wambua enos_wambua @wvi.org --------------------------------- EDUCATION CLUSTER CONTACTS: World Vision - Patricia Hartasanchez - phartasa @worldvision.org - 34524858/51 World Vision International - Dom Keyzer - dominic.keyzer @worldvision.com.au - 39338972 World Vision - Kela Vales - vales_kela @wvi.org - (509) 22570949/0969 (509) 510 9498 / (509) 3465 8434 -> FROM RELIEF WEB: Haiti: World Vision prepares for potential severe weather admidst ongoing cholera, quake response work Source: World Vision Date: 30 Oct 2010 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE World Vision prepares for potential severe weather amidst ongoing cholera, quake response work · Forecasters predict Tropical Storm Tomas may grow into a hurricane over the weekend · Aid agency says severe weather, cholera outbreak and ongoing quake response "testing Haiti's limits" PORT-AU-PRINCE, 29 October 2010 – As forecasters watch Tropical Storm Tomas in the Caribbean, World Vision's relief team is preparing for the possibility of severe weather this weekend in Haiti. "Our rapid response team is mobilizing right now to do everything it can in the next 24 to 48 hours to help mitigate the effects of this storm," said Sabrina Pourmand-Nolen, World Vision's emergency program director in Haiti. "First the earthquake, then the cholera outbreak, and now the possibility of severe weather here; all of it is testing the limits of Haiti." The Christian relief agency is carrying out a number of activities in the next several days to help prepare the children and families in its camps in Port-au-Prince for the storm. Activities include: · Distributing hurricane preparedness messages (identify a safe place, listen for radio updates, have phones charged, keep important documents in plastic bags, stock essential items if possible, and secure your tents) in both French and Creole. · Temporarily dismantling the Child Friendly Spaces tents. · Ensuring all water tanks are full and latrines are desludged and secured. · Mobilizing a post-storm rapid assessment team. · Securing contents of the health tents but continue to keep open (as much as possible) to provide preventative measures for cholera. In addition, World Vision is working with other agencies, including the American Refugee Committee and Oxfam at Corail, to protect the families in those camps, including establishing the warehouse at Corail as an emergency shelter. "The effect of these natural disasters and the outbreak highlight the ongoing vulnerability here," said Pourmand-Nolen. "It is a reminder to the international community that one of the most critical things that must happen for Haiti to recover from the multiple tragedies this year is a commitment to build its infrastructure. Access to clean water, sanitation facilities, health care and education will create a stronger Haiti in the future." ===================================== 4/10 http://www.worldvision.org/content.nsf/learn/haiti-update-more-work?Open&lpos=ctr_txt_ReadMoreMoreWork HAITI EARTHQUAKE 3 MONTH UPDATE Protecting children Providing shelter Renewing opportunity Restoring health Preventing illness - World Vision will continue working to improve the sanitary conditions in displacement camps throughout Port-au-Prince. We’ll partner with displaced communities to clear the camps of garbage, dig garbage pits, lay proper drainage systems, and more. Our priority is to help families stay healthy now and during the coming rainy season. ================================= FACEBOOK - http://www.facebook.com/worldvision In partnership with Operation Hope for Haiti http://www.operationhopehaiti.com/ ================= FROM THE WEBSITE: Haiti: Concern for children grows 16 Jan 2010 - By World Vision staff World Vision relief workers, in a race against time to save lives in Haiti, got a boost as relief goods began arriving in Haiti’s quake-ravaged capital city yesterday. Meanwhile, World Vision staff's concern for Haiti’s children continues to grow as they find more and more children separated from their parents. Broken infrastructure a key challenge Difficulties with broken infrastructure, limited airport capacity and concerns about potential security threats in Haiti slowed the delivery of humanitarian supplies to hard-hit areas in the first days after the quake. Even ambulances are in short supply, reported World Vision staff. “The basics are the hardest,” said Dave Toycen, president of World Vision Canada. “There was a mile-long line for gasoline. It's a logistical maze out here.” The security situation could change rapidly if shortages of food, water and other basic supplies reach a critical level, the agency warned. With thousands in Port-au-Prince left homeless by destroyed or badly damaged houses, many are sleeping in the streets or at spontaneous settlements in public parks and other spaces. World Vision staff have seen people living in very unsanitary and hazardous conditions. Supplies running low; resupply begins World Vision, which has worked in Haiti more than 30 years, today reached an additional 1,000 families with relief items already stored in the country, but many urgent items such as clean water, medical supplies and emergency shelter resources were running low. Toycen reported via Twitter: “Distributions are in full force - trying to reach as many people as possible. Still a steep curve to reach all those affected.” World Vision’s supply chain is ramping up to bring in badly needed supplies. The first of a series of flights bringing emergency supplies for World Vision relief efforts in Haiti touched down in Port-au-Prince on Friday evening. A Hercules C130 brought items such as hygiene kits, blankets, water containers, and shelter materials from World Vision’s warehouse in Denver. The aid group is planning more flights this weekend from Panama City, Toronto, and an additional flight from Denver, bringing more supplies, including medicines, tents, and shovels to remove debris. World Vision staff are finding alternatives to the congested Port-au-Prince airport, including bringing supplies overland from airports and ports in the Dominican Republic, where the agency has a sizable presence. Provide first aid World Vision teams have distributed first-aid supplies to more than ten hospitals in the Port-au-Prince area. “Some volunteer teachers have been performing first aid for the past day or two to those who have been injured,” reported Toycen. However, he fears many will die of their injuries if not tended to soon. “We are racing against the clock.” Many of the injured have started to develop gangrene because they did not receive timely and adequate medical care. Family members of patients are taking measures into their own hands since the hospital system is completely overwhelmed and suffering serious structural damages; one World Vision volunteer saw an amputation performed in the hallways of the general hospital using unhygienic tools. World Vision volunteers also have seen a severed foot become an amputated leg because the wounds were not sterilised. Amputation tools and supplies to sterilise wounds are in short supply; World Vision anticipates a need for significant amounts of crutches and braces for earthquake amputees. Children alone and at risk World Vision has started to identify children who have become separated from their parents. The organisation has expressed concern about the number of children who are leaving Port-au-Prince and walking into towns outside the city to find help. World Vision’s Dominican Republic staff in the border town of Jimani are helping provide food, water, and medical care to hundreds of unaccompanied children who fled Port-au-Prince for the border, either alone or who became separated from parents along the way. There were a significant number of children in orphanages prior to the disaster, and World Vision staff acknowledge that the earthquake certainly has created more orphans. Because the quake struck during school hours, there are hundreds of children who simply have not found their parents. ============================ http://www.worldvision.org/content.nsf/learn/haiti-relief?OpenDocument&lpos=top_drp_OurWork_HaitiRelief ---------------------------- WASH CLUSTER CONTACTS (Sanitation/Hygiene): Andrew Jalanski andrew.jalanski @worldvision.com.au Elvire Douglas - elvire_douglas @wvi.org 011-509-3448-4158 ------------------------------ SHELTER CLUSTER: David_Kehoe @wvi.org (works dist.) Lindsay Gladding Program Officer linsay-gladding@worldvision.ca 011-509-3452- 4843 ----------------------------- CCCM (Camp) Cluster: Lindsay Gladding 011-509-3452-4843 Liz Satow liz_satow @wvi.org (+41) 797440668 Rod Imer rod_imer @wvi.org (+41)788679673 Martha Gomez Andrade martagomezdeandrade @gmail.com, Kris Sullens kristin_sullens @wvi.org 34524843 Enos Wambua enos_wambua @wvi.org --------------------------------- EDUCATION CLUSTER CONTACTS: World Vision - Patricia Hartasanchez - phartasa @worldvision.org - 34524858/51 World Vision International - Dom Keyzer - dominic.keyzer @worldvision.com.au - 39338972 World Vision - Kela Vales - vales_kela @wvi.org - (509) 22570949/0969 (509) 510 9498 / (509) 3465 8434

notes: 4/10 http://www.worldvision.org/content.nsf/learn/haiti-update-more-work?Open&lpos=ctr_txt_ReadMoreMoreWork HAITI EARTHQUAKE 3 MONTH UPDATE Protecting children Providing shelter Renewing opportunity Restoring health Preventing illness - World Vision will continue working to improve the sanitary conditions in displacement camps throughout Port-au-Prince. We’ll partner with displaced communities to clear the camps of garbage, dig garbage pits, lay proper drainage systems, and more. Our priority is to help families stay healthy now and during the coming rainy season. ================= FACEBOOK - http://www.facebook.com/worldvision In partnership with Operation Hope for Haiti http://www.operationhopehaiti.com/ ================= FROM THE WEBSITE: Haiti: Concern for children grows 16 Jan 2010 - By World Vision staff World Vision relief workers, in a race against time to save lives in Haiti, got a boost as relief goods began arriving in Haiti’s quake-ravaged capital city yesterday. Meanwhile, World Vision staff's concern for Haiti’s children continues to grow as they find more and more children separated from their parents. Broken infrastructure a key challenge Difficulties with broken infrastructure, limited airport capacity and concerns about potential security threats in Haiti slowed the delivery of humanitarian supplies to hard-hit areas in the first days after the quake. Even ambulances are in short supply, reported World Vision staff. “The basics are the hardest,” said Dave Toycen, president of World Vision Canada. “There was a mile-long line for gasoline. It's a logistical maze out here.” The security situation could change rapidly if shortages of food, water and other basic supplies reach a critical level, the agency warned. With thousands in Port-au-Prince left homeless by destroyed or badly damaged houses, many are sleeping in the streets or at spontaneous settlements in public parks and other spaces. World Vision staff have seen people living in very unsanitary and hazardous conditions. Supplies running low; resupply begins World Vision, which has worked in Haiti more than 30 years, today reached an additional 1,000 families with relief items already stored in the country, but many urgent items such as clean water, medical supplies and emergency shelter resources were running low. Toycen reported via Twitter: “Distributions are in full force - trying to reach as many people as possible. Still a steep curve to reach all those affected.” World Vision’s supply chain is ramping up to bring in badly needed supplies. The first of a series of flights bringing emergency supplies for World Vision relief efforts in Haiti touched down in Port-au-Prince on Friday evening. A Hercules C130 brought items such as hygiene kits, blankets, water containers, and shelter materials from World Vision’s warehouse in Denver. The aid group is planning more flights this weekend from Panama City, Toronto, and an additional flight from Denver, bringing more supplies, including medicines, tents, and shovels to remove debris. World Vision staff are finding alternatives to the congested Port-au-Prince airport, including bringing supplies overland from airports and ports in the Dominican Republic, where the agency has a sizable presence. Provide first aid World Vision teams have distributed first-aid supplies to more than ten hospitals in the Port-au-Prince area. “Some volunteer teachers have been performing first aid for the past day or two to those who have been injured,” reported Toycen. However, he fears many will die of their injuries if not tended to soon. “We are racing against the clock.” Many of the injured have started to develop gangrene because they did not receive timely and adequate medical care. Family members of patients are taking measures into their own hands since the hospital system is completely overwhelmed and suffering serious structural damages; one World Vision volunteer saw an amputation performed in the hallways of the general hospital using unhygienic tools. World Vision volunteers also have seen a severed foot become an amputated leg because the wounds were not sterilised. Amputation tools and supplies to sterilise wounds are in short supply; World Vision anticipates a need for significant amounts of crutches and braces for earthquake amputees. Children alone and at risk World Vision has started to identify children who have become separated from their parents. The organisation has expressed concern about the number of children who are leaving Port-au-Prince and walking into towns outside the city to find help. World Vision’s Dominican Republic staff in the border town of Jimani are helping provide food, water, and medical care to hundreds of unaccompanied children who fled Port-au-Prince for the border, either alone or who became separated from parents along the way. There were a significant number of children in orphanages prior to the disaster, and World Vision staff acknowledge that the earthquake certainly has created more orphans. Because the quake struck during school hours, there are hundreds of children who simply have not found their parents. ============================ http://www.worldvision.org/content.nsf/learn/haiti-relief?OpenDocument&lpos=top_drp_OurWork_HaitiRelief ---------------------------- WASH CLUSTER CONTACTS (Sanitation/Hygiene): Andrew Jalanski andrew.jalanski @worldvision.com.au Elvire Douglas - elvire_douglas @wvi.org 011-509-3448-4158 ------------------------------ SHELTER CLUSTER: David_Kehoe @wvi.org (works dist.) Lindsay Gladding Program Officer linsay-gladding@worldvision.ca 011-509-3452- 4843 ----------------------------- CCCM (Camp) Cluster: Lindsay Gladding 011-509-3452-4843 Liz Satow liz_satow @wvi.org (+41) 797440668 Rod Imer rod_imer @wvi.org (+41)788679673 Martha Gomez Andrade martagomezdeandrade @gmail.com, Kris Sullens kristin_sullens @wvi.org 34524843 Enos Wambua enos_wambua @wvi.org --------------------------------- EDUCATION CLUSTER CONTACTS: World Vision - Patricia Hartasanchez - phartasa @worldvision.org - 34524858/51 World Vision International - Dom Keyzer - dominic.keyzer @worldvision.com.au - 39338972 World Vision - Kela Vales - vales_kela @wvi.org - (509) 22570949/0969 (509) 510 9498 / (509) 3465 8434 -> FROM RELIEF WEB: Haiti: World Vision prepares for potential severe weather admidst ongoing cholera, quake response work Source: World Vision Date: 30 Oct 2010 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Laura Blank 646-245-2496 Amy Parodi 253-709-3190 World Vision prepares for potential severe weather amidst ongoing cholera, quake response work · Forecasters predict Tropical Storm Tomas may grow into a hurricane over the weekend · Aid agency says severe weather, cholera outbreak and ongoing quake response "testing Haiti's limits" PORT-AU-PRINCE, 29 October 2010 – As forecasters watch Tropical Storm Tomas in the Caribbean, World Vision's relief team is preparing for the possibility of severe weather this weekend in Haiti. "Our rapid response team is mobilizing right now to do everything it can in the next 24 to 48 hours to help mitigate the effects of this storm," said Sabrina Pourmand-Nolen, World Vision's emergency program director in Haiti. "First the earthquake, then the cholera outbreak, and now the possibility of severe weather here; all of it is testing the limits of Haiti." The Christian relief agency is carrying out a number of activities in the next several days to help prepare the children and families in its camps in Port-au-Prince for the storm. Activities include: · Distributing hurricane preparedness messages (identify a safe place, listen for radio updates, have phones charged, keep important documents in plastic bags, stock essential items if possible, and secure your tents) in both French and Creole. · Temporarily dismantling the Child Friendly Spaces tents. · Ensuring all water tanks are full and latrines are desludged and secured. · Mobilizing a post-storm rapid assessment team. · Securing contents of the health tents but continue to keep open (as much as possible) to provide preventative measures for cholera. In addition, World Vision is working with other agencies, including the American Refugee Committee and Oxfam at Corail, to protect the families in those camps, including establishing the warehouse at Corail as an emergency shelter. "The effect of these natural disasters and the outbreak highlight the ongoing vulnerability here," said Pourmand-Nolen. "It is a reminder to the international community that one of the most critical things that must happen for Haiti to recover from the multiple tragedies this year is a commitment to build its infrastructure. Access to clean water, sanitation facilities, health care and education will create a stronger Haiti in the future." ===================================== 4/10 http://www.worldvision.org/content.nsf/learn/haiti-update-more-work?Open&lpos=ctr_txt_ReadMoreMoreWork HAITI EARTHQUAKE 3 MONTH UPDATE Protecting children Providing shelter Renewing opportunity Restoring health Preventing illness - World Vision will continue working to improve the sanitary conditions in displacement camps throughout Port-au-Prince. We’ll partner with displaced communities to clear the camps of garbage, dig garbage pits, lay proper drainage systems, and more. Our priority is to help families stay healthy now and during the coming rainy season. ================================= FACEBOOK - http://www.facebook.com/worldvision In partnership with Operation Hope for Haiti http://www.operationhopehaiti.com/ ================= FROM THE WEBSITE: Haiti: Concern for children grows 16 Jan 2010 - By World Vision staff World Vision relief workers, in a race against time to save lives in Haiti, got a boost as relief goods began arriving in Haiti’s quake-ravaged capital city yesterday. Meanwhile, World Vision staff's concern for Haiti’s children continues to grow as they find more and more children separated from their parents. Broken infrastructure a key challenge Difficulties with broken infrastructure, limited airport capacity and concerns about potential security threats in Haiti slowed the delivery of humanitarian supplies to hard-hit areas in the first days after the quake. Even ambulances are in short supply, reported World Vision staff. “The basics are the hardest,” said Dave Toycen, president of World Vision Canada. “There was a mile-long line for gasoline. It's a logistical maze out here.” The security situation could change rapidly if shortages of food, water and other basic supplies reach a critical level, the agency warned. With thousands in Port-au-Prince left homeless by destroyed or badly damaged houses, many are sleeping in the streets or at spontaneous settlements in public parks and other spaces. World Vision staff have seen people living in very unsanitary and hazardous conditions. Supplies running low; resupply begins World Vision, which has worked in Haiti more than 30 years, today reached an additional 1,000 families with relief items already stored in the country, but many urgent items such as clean water, medical supplies and emergency shelter resources were running low. Toycen reported via Twitter: “Distributions are in full force - trying to reach as many people as possible. Still a steep curve to reach all those affected.” World Vision’s supply chain is ramping up to bring in badly needed supplies. The first of a series of flights bringing emergency supplies for World Vision relief efforts in Haiti touched down in Port-au-Prince on Friday evening. A Hercules C130 brought items such as hygiene kits, blankets, water containers, and shelter materials from World Vision’s warehouse in Denver. The aid group is planning more flights this weekend from Panama City, Toronto, and an additional flight from Denver, bringing more supplies, including medicines, tents, and shovels to remove debris. World Vision staff are finding alternatives to the congested Port-au-Prince airport, including bringing supplies overland from airports and ports in the Dominican Republic, where the agency has a sizable presence. Provide first aid World Vision teams have distributed first-aid supplies to more than ten hospitals in the Port-au-Prince area. “Some volunteer teachers have been performing first aid for the past day or two to those who have been injured,” reported Toycen. However, he fears many will die of their injuries if not tended to soon. “We are racing against the clock.” Many of the injured have started to develop gangrene because they did not receive timely and adequate medical care. Family members of patients are taking measures into their own hands since the hospital system is completely overwhelmed and suffering serious structural damages; one World Vision volunteer saw an amputation performed in the hallways of the general hospital using unhygienic tools. World Vision volunteers also have seen a severed foot become an amputated leg because the wounds were not sterilised. Amputation tools and supplies to sterilise wounds are in short supply; World Vision anticipates a need for significant amounts of crutches and braces for earthquake amputees. Children alone and at risk World Vision has started to identify children who have become separated from their parents. The organisation has expressed concern about the number of children who are leaving Port-au-Prince and walking into towns outside the city to find help. World Vision’s Dominican Republic staff in the border town of Jimani are helping provide food, water, and medical care to hundreds of unaccompanied children who fled Port-au-Prince for the border, either alone or who became separated from parents along the way. There were a significant number of children in orphanages prior to the disaster, and World Vision staff acknowledge that the earthquake certainly has created more orphans. Because the quake struck during school hours, there are hundreds of children who simply have not found their parents. ============================ http://www.worldvision.org/content.nsf/learn/haiti-relief?OpenDocument&lpos=top_drp_OurWork_HaitiRelief ---------------------------- WASH CLUSTER CONTACTS (Sanitation/Hygiene): Andrew Jalanski andrew.jalanski @worldvision.com.au Elvire Douglas - elvire_douglas @wvi.org 011-509-3448-4158 ------------------------------ SHELTER CLUSTER: David_Kehoe @wvi.org (works dist.) Lindsay Gladding Program Officer linsay-gladding@worldvision.ca 011-509-3452- 4843 ----------------------------- CCCM (Camp) Cluster: Lindsay Gladding 011-509-3452-4843 Liz Satow liz_satow @wvi.org (+41) 797440668 Rod Imer rod_imer @wvi.org (+41)788679673 Martha Gomez Andrade martagomezdeandrade @gmail.com, Kris Sullens kristin_sullens @wvi.org 34524843 Enos Wambua enos_wambua @wvi.org --------------------------------- EDUCATION CLUSTER CONTACTS: World Vision - Patricia Hartasanchez - phartasa @worldvision.org - 34524858/51 World Vision International - Dom Keyzer - dominic.keyzer @worldvision.com.au - 39338972 World Vision - Kela Vales - vales_kela @wvi.org - (509) 22570949/0969 (509) 510 9498 / (509) 3465 8434

name: World Vision International, Haiti (WASH/PROTECTION/SHELTER/CAMP CLUSTERS) - (DIST.: FOOD/HYGIENE-COOKING KITS/SHELTER SUPPLIES/WATER CONTAINERS/BLANKETS) -> World Vision International, Haiti (WASH/EDUCATION/PROTECTION/SHELTER/CAMP CLUSTERS) - (DIST.: FOOD/HYGIENE-COOKING KITS/SHELTER SUPPLIES/WATER CONTAINERS/BLANKETS)
notes: 4/10 http://www.worldvision.org/content.nsf/learn/haiti-update-more-work?Open&lpos=ctr_txt_ReadMoreMoreWork HAITI EARTHQUAKE 3 MONTH UPDATE Protecting children Providing shelter Renewing opportunity Restoring health Preventing illness - World Vision will continue working to improve the sanitary conditions in displacement camps throughout Port-au-Prince. We’ll partner with displaced communities to clear the camps of garbage, dig garbage pits, lay proper drainage systems, and more. Our priority is to help families stay healthy now and during the coming rainy season. ================= FACEBOOK - http://www.facebook.com/worldvision In partnership with Operation Hope for Haiti http://www.operationhopehaiti.com/ ================= FROM THE WEBSITE: Haiti: Concern for children grows 16 Jan 2010 By World Vision staff World Vision relief workers, in a race against time to save lives in Haiti, got a boost as relief goods began arriving in Haiti’s quake-ravaged capital city yesterday. Meanwhile, World Vision staff's concern for Haiti’s children continues to grow as they find more and more children separated from their parents. Broken infrastructure a key challenge Difficulties with broken infrastructure, limited airport capacity and concerns about potential security threats in Haiti slowed the delivery of humanitarian supplies to hard-hit areas in the first days after the quake. Even ambulances are in short supply, reported World Vision staff. “The basics are the hardest,” said Dave Toycen, president of World Vision Canada. “There was a mile-long line for gasoline. It's a logistical maze out here.” The security situation could change rapidly if shortages of food, water and other basic supplies reach a critical level, the agency warned. With thousands in Port-au-Prince left homeless by destroyed or badly damaged houses, many are sleeping in the streets or at spontaneous settlements in public parks and other spaces. World Vision staff have seen people living in very unsanitary and hazardous conditions. Supplies running low; resupply begins World Vision, which has worked in Haiti more than 30 years, today reached an additional 1,000 families with relief items already stored in the country, but many urgent items such as clean water, medical supplies and emergency shelter resources were running low. Toycen reported via Twitter: “Distributions are in full force - trying to reach as many people as possible. Still a steep curve to reach all those affected.” World Vision’s supply chain is ramping up to bring in badly needed supplies. The first of a series of flights bringing emergency supplies for World Vision relief efforts in Haiti touched down in Port-au-Prince on Friday evening. A Hercules C130 brought items such as hygiene kits, blankets, water containers, and shelter materials from World Vision’s warehouse in Denver. The aid group is planning more flights this weekend from Panama City, Toronto, and an additional flight from Denver, bringing more supplies, including medicines, tents, and shovels to remove debris. World Vision staff are finding alternatives to the congested Port-au-Prince airport, including bringing supplies overland from airports and ports in the Dominican Republic, where the agency has a sizable presence. Provide first aid World Vision teams have distributed first-aid supplies to more than ten hospitals in the Port-au-Prince area. “Some volunteer teachers have been performing first aid for the past day or two to those who have been injured,” reported Toycen. However, he fears many will die of their injuries if not tended to soon. “We are racing against the clock.” Many of the injured have started to develop gangrene because they did not receive timely and adequate medical care. Family members of patients are taking measures into their own hands since the hospital system is completely overwhelmed and suffering serious structural damages; one World Vision volunteer saw an amputation performed in the hallways of the general hospital using unhygienic tools. World Vision volunteers also have seen a severed foot become an amputated leg because the wounds were not sterilised. Amputation tools and supplies to sterilise wounds are in short supply; World Vision anticipates a need for significant amounts of crutches and braces for earthquake amputees. Children alone and at risk World Vision has started to identify children who have become separated from their parents. The organisation has expressed concern about the number of children who are leaving Port-au-Prince and walking into towns outside the city to find help. World Vision’s Dominican Republic staff in the border town of Jimani are helping provide food, water, and medical care to hundreds of unaccompanied children who fled Port-au-Prince for the border, either alone or who became separated from parents along the way. There were a significant number of children in orphanages prior to the disaster, and World Vision staff acknowledge that the earthquake certainly has created more orphans. Because the quake struck during school hours, there are hundreds of children who simply have not found their parents. ============================ http://www.worldvision.org/content.nsf/learn/haiti-relief?OpenDocument&lpos=top_drp_OurWork_HaitiRelief ---------------------------- WASH CLUSTER CONTACTS (Sanitation/Hygiene): Andrew Jalanski andrew.jalanski @worldvision.com.au Elvire Douglas - elvire_douglas @wvi.org 011-509-3448-4158 ------------------------------ SHELTER CLUSTER: David_Kehoe @wvi.org (works dist.) Lindsay Gladding Program Officer linsay-gladding@worldvision.ca 011-509-3452- 4843 ----------------------------- CCCM (Camp) Cluster: Lindsay Gladding 011-509-3452-4843 Liz Satow liz_satow @wvi.org (+41) 797440668 Rod Imer rod_imer @wvi.org (+41)788679673 Martha Gomez Andrade martagomezdeandrade @gmail.com, Kris Sullens kristin_sullens @wvi.org 34524843 Enos Wambua enos_wambua @wvi.org -> 4/10 http://www.worldvision.org/content.nsf/learn/haiti-update-more-work?Open&lpos=ctr_txt_ReadMoreMoreWork HAITI EARTHQUAKE 3 MONTH UPDATE Protecting children Providing shelter Renewing opportunity Restoring health Preventing illness - World Vision will continue working to improve the sanitary conditions in displacement camps throughout Port-au-Prince. We’ll partner with displaced communities to clear the camps of garbage, dig garbage pits, lay proper drainage systems, and more. Our priority is to help families stay healthy now and during the coming rainy season. ================= FACEBOOK - http://www.facebook.com/worldvision In partnership with Operation Hope for Haiti http://www.operationhopehaiti.com/ ================= FROM THE WEBSITE: Haiti: Concern for children grows 16 Jan 2010 - By World Vision staff World Vision relief workers, in a race against time to save lives in Haiti, got a boost as relief goods began arriving in Haiti’s quake-ravaged capital city yesterday. Meanwhile, World Vision staff's concern for Haiti’s children continues to grow as they find more and more children separated from their parents. Broken infrastructure a key challenge Difficulties with broken infrastructure, limited airport capacity and concerns about potential security threats in Haiti slowed the delivery of humanitarian supplies to hard-hit areas in the first days after the quake. Even ambulances are in short supply, reported World Vision staff. “The basics are the hardest,” said Dave Toycen, president of World Vision Canada. “There was a mile-long line for gasoline. It's a logistical maze out here.” The security situation could change rapidly if shortages of food, water and other basic supplies reach a critical level, the agency warned. With thousands in Port-au-Prince left homeless by destroyed or badly damaged houses, many are sleeping in the streets or at spontaneous settlements in public parks and other spaces. World Vision staff have seen people living in very unsanitary and hazardous conditions. Supplies running low; resupply begins World Vision, which has worked in Haiti more than 30 years, today reached an additional 1,000 families with relief items already stored in the country, but many urgent items such as clean water, medical supplies and emergency shelter resources were running low. Toycen reported via Twitter: “Distributions are in full force - trying to reach as many people as possible. Still a steep curve to reach all those affected.” World Vision’s supply chain is ramping up to bring in badly needed supplies. The first of a series of flights bringing emergency supplies for World Vision relief efforts in Haiti touched down in Port-au-Prince on Friday evening. A Hercules C130 brought items such as hygiene kits, blankets, water containers, and shelter materials from World Vision’s warehouse in Denver. The aid group is planning more flights this weekend from Panama City, Toronto, and an additional flight from Denver, bringing more supplies, including medicines, tents, and shovels to remove debris. World Vision staff are finding alternatives to the congested Port-au-Prince airport, including bringing supplies overland from airports and ports in the Dominican Republic, where the agency has a sizable presence. Provide first aid World Vision teams have distributed first-aid supplies to more than ten hospitals in the Port-au-Prince area. “Some volunteer teachers have been performing first aid for the past day or two to those who have been injured,” reported Toycen. However, he fears many will die of their injuries if not tended to soon. “We are racing against the clock.” Many of the injured have started to develop gangrene because they did not receive timely and adequate medical care. Family members of patients are taking measures into their own hands since the hospital system is completely overwhelmed and suffering serious structural damages; one World Vision volunteer saw an amputation performed in the hallways of the general hospital using unhygienic tools. World Vision volunteers also have seen a severed foot become an amputated leg because the wounds were not sterilised. Amputation tools and supplies to sterilise wounds are in short supply; World Vision anticipates a need for significant amounts of crutches and braces for earthquake amputees. Children alone and at risk World Vision has started to identify children who have become separated from their parents. The organisation has expressed concern about the number of children who are leaving Port-au-Prince and walking into towns outside the city to find help. World Vision’s Dominican Republic staff in the border town of Jimani are helping provide food, water, and medical care to hundreds of unaccompanied children who fled Port-au-Prince for the border, either alone or who became separated from parents along the way. There were a significant number of children in orphanages prior to the disaster, and World Vision staff acknowledge that the earthquake certainly has created more orphans. Because the quake struck during school hours, there are hundreds of children who simply have not found their parents. ============================ http://www.worldvision.org/content.nsf/learn/haiti-relief?OpenDocument&lpos=top_drp_OurWork_HaitiRelief ---------------------------- WASH CLUSTER CONTACTS (Sanitation/Hygiene): Andrew Jalanski andrew.jalanski @worldvision.com.au Elvire Douglas - elvire_douglas @wvi.org 011-509-3448-4158 ------------------------------ SHELTER CLUSTER: David_Kehoe @wvi.org (works dist.) Lindsay Gladding Program Officer linsay-gladding@worldvision.ca 011-509-3452- 4843 ----------------------------- CCCM (Camp) Cluster: Lindsay Gladding 011-509-3452-4843 Liz Satow liz_satow @wvi.org (+41) 797440668 Rod Imer rod_imer @wvi.org (+41)788679673 Martha Gomez Andrade martagomezdeandrade @gmail.com, Kris Sullens kristin_sullens @wvi.org 34524843 Enos Wambua enos_wambua @wvi.org --------------------------------- EDUCATION CLUSTER CONTACTS: World Vision - Patricia Hartasanchez - phartasa @worldvision.org - 34524858/51 World Vision International - Dom Keyzer - dominic.keyzer @worldvision.com.au - 39338972 World Vision - Kela Vales - vales_kela @wvi.org - (509) 22570949/0969 (509) 510 9498 / (509) 3465 8434

notes: FACEBOOK - http://www.facebook.com/worldvision In partnership with Operation Hope for Haiti http://www.operationhopehaiti.com/ ================= FROM THE WEBSITE: Haiti: Concern for children grows 16 Jan 2010 By World Vision staff World Vision relief workers, in a race against time to save lives in Haiti, got a boost as relief goods began arriving in Haiti’s quake-ravaged capital city yesterday. Meanwhile, World Vision staff's concern for Haiti’s children continues to grow as they find more and more children separated from their parents. Broken infrastructure a key challenge Difficulties with broken infrastructure, limited airport capacity and concerns about potential security threats in Haiti slowed the delivery of humanitarian supplies to hard-hit areas in the first days after the quake. Even ambulances are in short supply, reported World Vision staff. “The basics are the hardest,” said Dave Toycen, president of World Vision Canada. “There was a mile-long line for gasoline. It's a logistical maze out here.” The security situation could change rapidly if shortages of food, water and other basic supplies reach a critical level, the agency warned. With thousands in Port-au-Prince left homeless by destroyed or badly damaged houses, many are sleeping in the streets or at spontaneous settlements in public parks and other spaces. World Vision staff have seen people living in very unsanitary and hazardous conditions. Supplies running low; resupply begins World Vision, which has worked in Haiti more than 30 years, today reached an additional 1,000 families with relief items already stored in the country, but many urgent items such as clean water, medical supplies and emergency shelter resources were running low. Toycen reported via Twitter: “Distributions are in full force - trying to reach as many people as possible. Still a steep curve to reach all those affected.” World Vision’s supply chain is ramping up to bring in badly needed supplies. The first of a series of flights bringing emergency supplies for World Vision relief efforts in Haiti touched down in Port-au-Prince on Friday evening. A Hercules C130 brought items such as hygiene kits, blankets, water containers, and shelter materials from World Vision’s warehouse in Denver. The aid group is planning more flights this weekend from Panama City, Toronto, and an additional flight from Denver, bringing more supplies, including medicines, tents, and shovels to remove debris. World Vision staff are finding alternatives to the congested Port-au-Prince airport, including bringing supplies overland from airports and ports in the Dominican Republic, where the agency has a sizable presence. Provide first aid World Vision teams have distributed first-aid supplies to more than ten hospitals in the Port-au-Prince area. “Some volunteer teachers have been performing first aid for the past day or two to those who have been injured,” reported Toycen. However, he fears many will die of their injuries if not tended to soon. “We are racing against the clock.” Many of the injured have started to develop gangrene because they did not receive timely and adequate medical care. Family members of patients are taking measures into their own hands since the hospital system is completely overwhelmed and suffering serious structural damages; one World Vision volunteer saw an amputation performed in the hallways of the general hospital using unhygienic tools. World Vision volunteers also have seen a severed foot become an amputated leg because the wounds were not sterilised. Amputation tools and supplies to sterilise wounds are in short supply; World Vision anticipates a need for significant amounts of crutches and braces for earthquake amputees. Children alone and at risk World Vision has started to identify children who have become separated from their parents. The organisation has expressed concern about the number of children who are leaving Port-au-Prince and walking into towns outside the city to find help. World Vision’s Dominican Republic staff in the border town of Jimani are helping provide food, water, and medical care to hundreds of unaccompanied children who fled Port-au-Prince for the border, either alone or who became separated from parents along the way. There were a significant number of children in orphanages prior to the disaster, and World Vision staff acknowledge that the earthquake certainly has created more orphans. Because the quake struck during school hours, there are hundreds of children who simply have not found their parents. ============================ http://www.worldvision.org/content.nsf/learn/haiti-relief?OpenDocument&lpos=top_drp_OurWork_HaitiRelief ---------------------------- WASH CLUSTER CONTACTS (Sanitation/Hygiene): Andrew Jalanski andrew.jalanski @worldvision.com.au Elvire Douglas - elvire_douglas @wvi.org 011-509-3448-4158 ------------------------------ SHELTER CLUSTER: David_Kehoe @wvi.org (works dist.) Lindsay Gladding Program Officer linsay-gladding@worldvision.ca 011-509-3452- 4843 ----------------------------- CCCM (Camp) Cluster: Lindsay Gladding 011-509-3452-4843 Liz Satow liz_satow @wvi.org (+41) 797440668 Rod Imer rod_imer @wvi.org (+41)788679673 Martha Gomez Andrade martagomezdeandrade @gmail.com, Kris Sullens kristin_sullens @wvi.org 34524843 Enos Wambua enos_wambua @wvi.org -> 4/10 http://www.worldvision.org/content.nsf/learn/haiti-update-more-work?Open&lpos=ctr_txt_ReadMoreMoreWork HAITI EARTHQUAKE 3 MONTH UPDATE Protecting children Providing shelter Renewing opportunity Restoring health Preventing illness - World Vision will continue working to improve the sanitary conditions in displacement camps throughout Port-au-Prince. We’ll partner with displaced communities to clear the camps of garbage, dig garbage pits, lay proper drainage systems, and more. Our priority is to help families stay healthy now and during the coming rainy season. ================= FACEBOOK - http://www.facebook.com/worldvision In partnership with Operation Hope for Haiti http://www.operationhopehaiti.com/ ================= FROM THE WEBSITE: Haiti: Concern for children grows 16 Jan 2010 By World Vision staff World Vision relief workers, in a race against time to save lives in Haiti, got a boost as relief goods began arriving in Haiti’s quake-ravaged capital city yesterday. Meanwhile, World Vision staff's concern for Haiti’s children continues to grow as they find more and more children separated from their parents. Broken infrastructure a key challenge Difficulties with broken infrastructure, limited airport capacity and concerns about potential security threats in Haiti slowed the delivery of humanitarian supplies to hard-hit areas in the first days after the quake. Even ambulances are in short supply, reported World Vision staff. “The basics are the hardest,” said Dave Toycen, president of World Vision Canada. “There was a mile-long line for gasoline. It's a logistical maze out here.” The security situation could change rapidly if shortages of food, water and other basic supplies reach a critical level, the agency warned. With thousands in Port-au-Prince left homeless by destroyed or badly damaged houses, many are sleeping in the streets or at spontaneous settlements in public parks and other spaces. World Vision staff have seen people living in very unsanitary and hazardous conditions. Supplies running low; resupply begins World Vision, which has worked in Haiti more than 30 years, today reached an additional 1,000 families with relief items already stored in the country, but many urgent items such as clean water, medical supplies and emergency shelter resources were running low. Toycen reported via Twitter: “Distributions are in full force - trying to reach as many people as possible. Still a steep curve to reach all those affected.” World Vision’s supply chain is ramping up to bring in badly needed supplies. The first of a series of flights bringing emergency supplies for World Vision relief efforts in Haiti touched down in Port-au-Prince on Friday evening. A Hercules C130 brought items such as hygiene kits, blankets, water containers, and shelter materials from World Vision’s warehouse in Denver. The aid group is planning more flights this weekend from Panama City, Toronto, and an additional flight from Denver, bringing more supplies, including medicines, tents, and shovels to remove debris. World Vision staff are finding alternatives to the congested Port-au-Prince airport, including bringing supplies overland from airports and ports in the Dominican Republic, where the agency has a sizable presence. Provide first aid World Vision teams have distributed first-aid supplies to more than ten hospitals in the Port-au-Prince area. “Some volunteer teachers have been performing first aid for the past day or two to those who have been injured,” reported Toycen. However, he fears many will die of their injuries if not tended to soon. “We are racing against the clock.” Many of the injured have started to develop gangrene because they did not receive timely and adequate medical care. Family members of patients are taking measures into their own hands since the hospital system is completely overwhelmed and suffering serious structural damages; one World Vision volunteer saw an amputation performed in the hallways of the general hospital using unhygienic tools. World Vision volunteers also have seen a severed foot become an amputated leg because the wounds were not sterilised. Amputation tools and supplies to sterilise wounds are in short supply; World Vision anticipates a need for significant amounts of crutches and braces for earthquake amputees. Children alone and at risk World Vision has started to identify children who have become separated from their parents. The organisation has expressed concern about the number of children who are leaving Port-au-Prince and walking into towns outside the city to find help. World Vision’s Dominican Republic staff in the border town of Jimani are helping provide food, water, and medical care to hundreds of unaccompanied children who fled Port-au-Prince for the border, either alone or who became separated from parents along the way. There were a significant number of children in orphanages prior to the disaster, and World Vision staff acknowledge that the earthquake certainly has created more orphans. Because the quake struck during school hours, there are hundreds of children who simply have not found their parents. ============================ http://www.worldvision.org/content.nsf/learn/haiti-relief?OpenDocument&lpos=top_drp_OurWork_HaitiRelief ---------------------------- WASH CLUSTER CONTACTS (Sanitation/Hygiene): Andrew Jalanski andrew.jalanski @worldvision.com.au Elvire Douglas - elvire_douglas @wvi.org 011-509-3448-4158 ------------------------------ SHELTER CLUSTER: David_Kehoe @wvi.org (works dist.) Lindsay Gladding Program Officer linsay-gladding@worldvision.ca 011-509-3452- 4843 ----------------------------- CCCM (Camp) Cluster: Lindsay Gladding 011-509-3452-4843 Liz Satow liz_satow @wvi.org (+41) 797440668 Rod Imer rod_imer @wvi.org (+41)788679673 Martha Gomez Andrade martagomezdeandrade @gmail.com, Kris Sullens kristin_sullens @wvi.org 34524843 Enos Wambua enos_wambua @wvi.org

name: World Vision International, Haiti (WASH/Protection/Shelter/Camp Cluster) - (DIST.: FOOD/HYGIENE-COOKING KITS/SHELTER SUPPLIES/WATER CONTAINERS/BLANKETS) -> World Vision International, Haiti (WASH/PROTECTION/SHELTER/CAMP CLUSTERS) - (DIST.: FOOD/HYGIENE-COOKING KITS/SHELTER SUPPLIES/WATER CONTAINERS/BLANKETS)
notes: FACEBOOK - http://www.facebook.com/worldvision In partnership with Operation Hope for Haiti http://www.operationhopehaiti.com/ ================= FROM THE WEBSITE: Haiti: Concern for children grows 16 Jan 2010 By World Vision staff World Vision relief workers, in a race against time to save lives in Haiti, got a boost as relief goods began arriving in Haiti’s quake-ravaged capital city yesterday. Meanwhile, World Vision staff's concern for Haiti’s children continues to grow as they find more and more children separated from their parents. Broken infrastructure a key challenge Difficulties with broken infrastructure, limited airport capacity and concerns about potential security threats in Haiti slowed the delivery of humanitarian supplies to hard-hit areas in the first days after the quake. Even ambulances are in short supply, reported World Vision staff. “The basics are the hardest,” said Dave Toycen, president of World Vision Canada. “There was a mile-long line for gasoline. It's a logistical maze out here.” The security situation could change rapidly if shortages of food, water and other basic supplies reach a critical level, the agency warned. With thousands in Port-au-Prince left homeless by destroyed or badly damaged houses, many are sleeping in the streets or at spontaneous settlements in public parks and other spaces. World Vision staff have seen people living in very unsanitary and hazardous conditions. Supplies running low; resupply begins World Vision, which has worked in Haiti more than 30 years, today reached an additional 1,000 families with relief items already stored in the country, but many urgent items such as clean water, medical supplies and emergency shelter resources were running low. Toycen reported via Twitter: “Distributions are in full force - trying to reach as many people as possible. Still a steep curve to reach all those affected.” World Vision’s supply chain is ramping up to bring in badly needed supplies. The first of a series of flights bringing emergency supplies for World Vision relief efforts in Haiti touched down in Port-au-Prince on Friday evening. A Hercules C130 brought items such as hygiene kits, blankets, water containers, and shelter materials from World Vision’s warehouse in Denver. The aid group is planning more flights this weekend from Panama City, Toronto, and an additional flight from Denver, bringing more supplies, including medicines, tents, and shovels to remove debris. World Vision staff are finding alternatives to the congested Port-au-Prince airport, including bringing supplies overland from airports and ports in the Dominican Republic, where the agency has a sizable presence. Provide first aid World Vision teams have distributed first-aid supplies to more than ten hospitals in the Port-au-Prince area. “Some volunteer teachers have been performing first aid for the past day or two to those who have been injured,” reported Toycen. However, he fears many will die of their injuries if not tended to soon. “We are racing against the clock.” Many of the injured have started to develop gangrene because they did not receive timely and adequate medical care. Family members of patients are taking measures into their own hands since the hospital system is completely overwhelmed and suffering serious structural damages; one World Vision volunteer saw an amputation performed in the hallways of the general hospital using unhygienic tools. World Vision volunteers also have seen a severed foot become an amputated leg because the wounds were not sterilised. Amputation tools and supplies to sterilise wounds are in short supply; World Vision anticipates a need for significant amounts of crutches and braces for earthquake amputees. Children alone and at risk World Vision has started to identify children who have become separated from their parents. The organisation has expressed concern about the number of children who are leaving Port-au-Prince and walking into towns outside the city to find help. World Vision’s Dominican Republic staff in the border town of Jimani are helping provide food, water, and medical care to hundreds of unaccompanied children who fled Port-au-Prince for the border, either alone or who became separated from parents along the way. There were a significant number of children in orphanages prior to the disaster, and World Vision staff acknowledge that the earthquake certainly has created more orphans. Because the quake struck during school hours, there are hundreds of children who simply have not found their parents. ============================ http://www.worldvision.org/content.nsf/learn/haiti-relief?OpenDocument&lpos=top_drp_OurWork_HaitiRelief ---------------------------- WASH CLUSTER CONTACTS (Sanitation/Hygiene): Andrew Jalanski andrew.jalanski @worldvision.com.au Elvire Douglas - elvire_douglas @wvi.org 011-509-3448-4158 ------------------------------ SHELTER CLUSTER: David_Kehoe @wvi.org (works dist.) Lindsay Gladding Program Officer linsay-gladding@worldvision.ca 011-509-3452- 4843 ----------------------------- CCCM (Camp) Cluster: Lindsay Gladding 011-509-3452-4843 Liz Satow liz_satow @wvi.org (+41) 797440668 Rod Imer rod_imer @wvi.org (+41)788679673 -> FACEBOOK - http://www.facebook.com/worldvision In partnership with Operation Hope for Haiti http://www.operationhopehaiti.com/ ================= FROM THE WEBSITE: Haiti: Concern for children grows 16 Jan 2010 By World Vision staff World Vision relief workers, in a race against time to save lives in Haiti, got a boost as relief goods began arriving in Haiti’s quake-ravaged capital city yesterday. Meanwhile, World Vision staff's concern for Haiti’s children continues to grow as they find more and more children separated from their parents. Broken infrastructure a key challenge Difficulties with broken infrastructure, limited airport capacity and concerns about potential security threats in Haiti slowed the delivery of humanitarian supplies to hard-hit areas in the first days after the quake. Even ambulances are in short supply, reported World Vision staff. “The basics are the hardest,” said Dave Toycen, president of World Vision Canada. “There was a mile-long line for gasoline. It's a logistical maze out here.” The security situation could change rapidly if shortages of food, water and other basic supplies reach a critical level, the agency warned. With thousands in Port-au-Prince left homeless by destroyed or badly damaged houses, many are sleeping in the streets or at spontaneous settlements in public parks and other spaces. World Vision staff have seen people living in very unsanitary and hazardous conditions. Supplies running low; resupply begins World Vision, which has worked in Haiti more than 30 years, today reached an additional 1,000 families with relief items already stored in the country, but many urgent items such as clean water, medical supplies and emergency shelter resources were running low. Toycen reported via Twitter: “Distributions are in full force - trying to reach as many people as possible. Still a steep curve to reach all those affected.” World Vision’s supply chain is ramping up to bring in badly needed supplies. The first of a series of flights bringing emergency supplies for World Vision relief efforts in Haiti touched down in Port-au-Prince on Friday evening. A Hercules C130 brought items such as hygiene kits, blankets, water containers, and shelter materials from World Vision’s warehouse in Denver. The aid group is planning more flights this weekend from Panama City, Toronto, and an additional flight from Denver, bringing more supplies, including medicines, tents, and shovels to remove debris. World Vision staff are finding alternatives to the congested Port-au-Prince airport, including bringing supplies overland from airports and ports in the Dominican Republic, where the agency has a sizable presence. Provide first aid World Vision teams have distributed first-aid supplies to more than ten hospitals in the Port-au-Prince area. “Some volunteer teachers have been performing first aid for the past day or two to those who have been injured,” reported Toycen. However, he fears many will die of their injuries if not tended to soon. “We are racing against the clock.” Many of the injured have started to develop gangrene because they did not receive timely and adequate medical care. Family members of patients are taking measures into their own hands since the hospital system is completely overwhelmed and suffering serious structural damages; one World Vision volunteer saw an amputation performed in the hallways of the general hospital using unhygienic tools. World Vision volunteers also have seen a severed foot become an amputated leg because the wounds were not sterilised. Amputation tools and supplies to sterilise wounds are in short supply; World Vision anticipates a need for significant amounts of crutches and braces for earthquake amputees. Children alone and at risk World Vision has started to identify children who have become separated from their parents. The organisation has expressed concern about the number of children who are leaving Port-au-Prince and walking into towns outside the city to find help. World Vision’s Dominican Republic staff in the border town of Jimani are helping provide food, water, and medical care to hundreds of unaccompanied children who fled Port-au-Prince for the border, either alone or who became separated from parents along the way. There were a significant number of children in orphanages prior to the disaster, and World Vision staff acknowledge that the earthquake certainly has created more orphans. Because the quake struck during school hours, there are hundreds of children who simply have not found their parents. ============================ http://www.worldvision.org/content.nsf/learn/haiti-relief?OpenDocument&lpos=top_drp_OurWork_HaitiRelief ---------------------------- WASH CLUSTER CONTACTS (Sanitation/Hygiene): Andrew Jalanski andrew.jalanski @worldvision.com.au Elvire Douglas - elvire_douglas @wvi.org 011-509-3448-4158 ------------------------------ SHELTER CLUSTER: David_Kehoe @wvi.org (works dist.) Lindsay Gladding Program Officer linsay-gladding@worldvision.ca 011-509-3452- 4843 ----------------------------- CCCM (Camp) Cluster: Lindsay Gladding 011-509-3452-4843 Liz Satow liz_satow @wvi.org (+41) 797440668 Rod Imer rod_imer @wvi.org (+41)788679673 Martha Gomez Andrade martagomezdeandrade @gmail.com, Kris Sullens kristin_sullens @wvi.org 34524843 Enos Wambua enos_wambua @wvi.org

name: World Vision International, Haiti (WASH/Protection/Camp Cluster) - (DIST.: FOOD/HYGIENE-COOKING KITS/SHELTER SUPPLIES/WATER CONTAINERS/BLANKETS) -> World Vision International, Haiti (WASH/Protection/Shelter/Camp Cluster) - (DIST.: FOOD/HYGIENE-COOKING KITS/SHELTER SUPPLIES/WATER CONTAINERS/BLANKETS)
notes: FACEBOOK - http://www.facebook.com/worldvision In partnership with Operation Hope for Haiti http://www.operationhopehaiti.com/ ================= FROM THE WEBSITE: Haiti: Concern for children grows 16 Jan 2010 By World Vision staff World Vision relief workers, in a race against time to save lives in Haiti, got a boost as relief goods began arriving in Haiti’s quake-ravaged capital city yesterday. Meanwhile, World Vision staff's concern for Haiti’s children continues to grow as they find more and more children separated from their parents. Broken infrastructure a key challenge Difficulties with broken infrastructure, limited airport capacity and concerns about potential security threats in Haiti slowed the delivery of humanitarian supplies to hard-hit areas in the first days after the quake. Even ambulances are in short supply, reported World Vision staff. “The basics are the hardest,” said Dave Toycen, president of World Vision Canada. “There was a mile-long line for gasoline. It's a logistical maze out here.” The security situation could change rapidly if shortages of food, water and other basic supplies reach a critical level, the agency warned. With thousands in Port-au-Prince left homeless by destroyed or badly damaged houses, many are sleeping in the streets or at spontaneous settlements in public parks and other spaces. World Vision staff have seen people living in very unsanitary and hazardous conditions. Supplies running low; resupply begins World Vision, which has worked in Haiti more than 30 years, today reached an additional 1,000 families with relief items already stored in the country, but many urgent items such as clean water, medical supplies and emergency shelter resources were running low. Toycen reported via Twitter: “Distributions are in full force - trying to reach as many people as possible. Still a steep curve to reach all those affected.” World Vision’s supply chain is ramping up to bring in badly needed supplies. The first of a series of flights bringing emergency supplies for World Vision relief efforts in Haiti touched down in Port-au-Prince on Friday evening. A Hercules C130 brought items such as hygiene kits, blankets, water containers, and shelter materials from World Vision’s warehouse in Denver. The aid group is planning more flights this weekend from Panama City, Toronto, and an additional flight from Denver, bringing more supplies, including medicines, tents, and shovels to remove debris. World Vision staff are finding alternatives to the congested Port-au-Prince airport, including bringing supplies overland from airports and ports in the Dominican Republic, where the agency has a sizable presence. Provide first aid World Vision teams have distributed first-aid supplies to more than ten hospitals in the Port-au-Prince area. “Some volunteer teachers have been performing first aid for the past day or two to those who have been injured,” reported Toycen. However, he fears many will die of their injuries if not tended to soon. “We are racing against the clock.” Many of the injured have started to develop gangrene because they did not receive timely and adequate medical care. Family members of patients are taking measures into their own hands since the hospital system is completely overwhelmed and suffering serious structural damages; one World Vision volunteer saw an amputation performed in the hallways of the general hospital using unhygienic tools. World Vision volunteers also have seen a severed foot become an amputated leg because the wounds were not sterilised. Amputation tools and supplies to sterilise wounds are in short supply; World Vision anticipates a need for significant amounts of crutches and braces for earthquake amputees. Children alone and at risk World Vision has started to identify children who have become separated from their parents. The organisation has expressed concern about the number of children who are leaving Port-au-Prince and walking into towns outside the city to find help. World Vision’s Dominican Republic staff in the border town of Jimani are helping provide food, water, and medical care to hundreds of unaccompanied children who fled Port-au-Prince for the border, either alone or who became separated from parents along the way. There were a significant number of children in orphanages prior to the disaster, and World Vision staff acknowledge that the earthquake certainly has created more orphans. Because the quake struck during school hours, there are hundreds of children who simply have not found their parents. ============================ http://www.worldvision.org/content.nsf/learn/haiti-relief?OpenDocument&lpos=top_drp_OurWork_HaitiRelief ---------------------------- WASH CLUSTER CONTACTS (Sanitation/Hygiene): Andrew Jalanski andrew.jalanski @worldvision.com.au Elvire Douglas - elvire_douglas @wvi.org 011-509-3448-4158 ------------------------------ SHELTER CLUSTER: David_Kehoe @wvi.org (works dist.) ----------------------------- CCCM (Camp) Cluster: Lindsay Gladding 011-509-3452-4843 Liz Satow liz_satow @wvi.org (+41) 797440668 Rod Imer rod_imer @wvi.org (+41)788679673 -> FACEBOOK - http://www.facebook.com/worldvision In partnership with Operation Hope for Haiti http://www.operationhopehaiti.com/ ================= FROM THE WEBSITE: Haiti: Concern for children grows 16 Jan 2010 By World Vision staff World Vision relief workers, in a race against time to save lives in Haiti, got a boost as relief goods began arriving in Haiti’s quake-ravaged capital city yesterday. Meanwhile, World Vision staff's concern for Haiti’s children continues to grow as they find more and more children separated from their parents. Broken infrastructure a key challenge Difficulties with broken infrastructure, limited airport capacity and concerns about potential security threats in Haiti slowed the delivery of humanitarian supplies to hard-hit areas in the first days after the quake. Even ambulances are in short supply, reported World Vision staff. “The basics are the hardest,” said Dave Toycen, president of World Vision Canada. “There was a mile-long line for gasoline. It's a logistical maze out here.” The security situation could change rapidly if shortages of food, water and other basic supplies reach a critical level, the agency warned. With thousands in Port-au-Prince left homeless by destroyed or badly damaged houses, many are sleeping in the streets or at spontaneous settlements in public parks and other spaces. World Vision staff have seen people living in very unsanitary and hazardous conditions. Supplies running low; resupply begins World Vision, which has worked in Haiti more than 30 years, today reached an additional 1,000 families with relief items already stored in the country, but many urgent items such as clean water, medical supplies and emergency shelter resources were running low. Toycen reported via Twitter: “Distributions are in full force - trying to reach as many people as possible. Still a steep curve to reach all those affected.” World Vision’s supply chain is ramping up to bring in badly needed supplies. The first of a series of flights bringing emergency supplies for World Vision relief efforts in Haiti touched down in Port-au-Prince on Friday evening. A Hercules C130 brought items such as hygiene kits, blankets, water containers, and shelter materials from World Vision’s warehouse in Denver. The aid group is planning more flights this weekend from Panama City, Toronto, and an additional flight from Denver, bringing more supplies, including medicines, tents, and shovels to remove debris. World Vision staff are finding alternatives to the congested Port-au-Prince airport, including bringing supplies overland from airports and ports in the Dominican Republic, where the agency has a sizable presence. Provide first aid World Vision teams have distributed first-aid supplies to more than ten hospitals in the Port-au-Prince area. “Some volunteer teachers have been performing first aid for the past day or two to those who have been injured,” reported Toycen. However, he fears many will die of their injuries if not tended to soon. “We are racing against the clock.” Many of the injured have started to develop gangrene because they did not receive timely and adequate medical care. Family members of patients are taking measures into their own hands since the hospital system is completely overwhelmed and suffering serious structural damages; one World Vision volunteer saw an amputation performed in the hallways of the general hospital using unhygienic tools. World Vision volunteers also have seen a severed foot become an amputated leg because the wounds were not sterilised. Amputation tools and supplies to sterilise wounds are in short supply; World Vision anticipates a need for significant amounts of crutches and braces for earthquake amputees. Children alone and at risk World Vision has started to identify children who have become separated from their parents. The organisation has expressed concern about the number of children who are leaving Port-au-Prince and walking into towns outside the city to find help. World Vision’s Dominican Republic staff in the border town of Jimani are helping provide food, water, and medical care to hundreds of unaccompanied children who fled Port-au-Prince for the border, either alone or who became separated from parents along the way. There were a significant number of children in orphanages prior to the disaster, and World Vision staff acknowledge that the earthquake certainly has created more orphans. Because the quake struck during school hours, there are hundreds of children who simply have not found their parents. ============================ http://www.worldvision.org/content.nsf/learn/haiti-relief?OpenDocument&lpos=top_drp_OurWork_HaitiRelief ---------------------------- WASH CLUSTER CONTACTS (Sanitation/Hygiene): Andrew Jalanski andrew.jalanski @worldvision.com.au Elvire Douglas - elvire_douglas @wvi.org 011-509-3448-4158 ------------------------------ SHELTER CLUSTER: David_Kehoe @wvi.org (works dist.) Lindsay Gladding Program Officer linsay-gladding@worldvision.ca 011-509-3452- 4843 ----------------------------- CCCM (Camp) Cluster: Lindsay Gladding 011-509-3452-4843 Liz Satow liz_satow @wvi.org (+41) 797440668 Rod Imer rod_imer @wvi.org (+41)788679673

notes: FACEBOOK - http://www.facebook.com/worldvision In partnership with Operation Hope for Haiti http://www.operationhopehaiti.com/ ================= FROM THE WEBSITE: Haiti: Concern for children grows 16 Jan 2010 By World Vision staff World Vision relief workers, in a race against time to save lives in Haiti, got a boost as relief goods began arriving in Haiti’s quake-ravaged capital city yesterday. Meanwhile, World Vision staff's concern for Haiti’s children continues to grow as they find more and more children separated from their parents. Broken infrastructure a key challenge Difficulties with broken infrastructure, limited airport capacity and concerns about potential security threats in Haiti slowed the delivery of humanitarian supplies to hard-hit areas in the first days after the quake. Even ambulances are in short supply, reported World Vision staff. “The basics are the hardest,” said Dave Toycen, president of World Vision Canada. “There was a mile-long line for gasoline. It's a logistical maze out here.” The security situation could change rapidly if shortages of food, water and other basic supplies reach a critical level, the agency warned. With thousands in Port-au-Prince left homeless by destroyed or badly damaged houses, many are sleeping in the streets or at spontaneous settlements in public parks and other spaces. World Vision staff have seen people living in very unsanitary and hazardous conditions. Supplies running low; resupply begins World Vision, which has worked in Haiti more than 30 years, today reached an additional 1,000 families with relief items already stored in the country, but many urgent items such as clean water, medical supplies and emergency shelter resources were running low. Toycen reported via Twitter: “Distributions are in full force - trying to reach as many people as possible. Still a steep curve to reach all those affected.” World Vision’s supply chain is ramping up to bring in badly needed supplies. The first of a series of flights bringing emergency supplies for World Vision relief efforts in Haiti touched down in Port-au-Prince on Friday evening. A Hercules C130 brought items such as hygiene kits, blankets, water containers, and shelter materials from World Vision’s warehouse in Denver. The aid group is planning more flights this weekend from Panama City, Toronto, and an additional flight from Denver, bringing more supplies, including medicines, tents, and shovels to remove debris. World Vision staff are finding alternatives to the congested Port-au-Prince airport, including bringing supplies overland from airports and ports in the Dominican Republic, where the agency has a sizable presence. Provide first aid World Vision teams have distributed first-aid supplies to more than ten hospitals in the Port-au-Prince area. “Some volunteer teachers have been performing first aid for the past day or two to those who have been injured,” reported Toycen. However, he fears many will die of their injuries if not tended to soon. “We are racing against the clock.” Many of the injured have started to develop gangrene because they did not receive timely and adequate medical care. Family members of patients are taking measures into their own hands since the hospital system is completely overwhelmed and suffering serious structural damages; one World Vision volunteer saw an amputation performed in the hallways of the general hospital using unhygienic tools. World Vision volunteers also have seen a severed foot become an amputated leg because the wounds were not sterilised. Amputation tools and supplies to sterilise wounds are in short supply; World Vision anticipates a need for significant amounts of crutches and braces for earthquake amputees. Children alone and at risk World Vision has started to identify children who have become separated from their parents. The organisation has expressed concern about the number of children who are leaving Port-au-Prince and walking into towns outside the city to find help. World Vision’s Dominican Republic staff in the border town of Jimani are helping provide food, water, and medical care to hundreds of unaccompanied children who fled Port-au-Prince for the border, either alone or who became separated from parents along the way. There were a significant number of children in orphanages prior to the disaster, and World Vision staff acknowledge that the earthquake certainly has created more orphans. Because the quake struck during school hours, there are hundreds of children who simply have not found their parents. ============================ http://www.worldvision.org/content.nsf/learn/haiti-relief?OpenDocument&lpos=top_drp_OurWork_HaitiRelief -> FACEBOOK - http://www.facebook.com/worldvision In partnership with Operation Hope for Haiti http://www.operationhopehaiti.com/ ================= FROM THE WEBSITE: Haiti: Concern for children grows 16 Jan 2010 By World Vision staff World Vision relief workers, in a race against time to save lives in Haiti, got a boost as relief goods began arriving in Haiti’s quake-ravaged capital city yesterday. Meanwhile, World Vision staff's concern for Haiti’s children continues to grow as they find more and more children separated from their parents. Broken infrastructure a key challenge Difficulties with broken infrastructure, limited airport capacity and concerns about potential security threats in Haiti slowed the delivery of humanitarian supplies to hard-hit areas in the first days after the quake. Even ambulances are in short supply, reported World Vision staff. “The basics are the hardest,” said Dave Toycen, president of World Vision Canada. “There was a mile-long line for gasoline. It's a logistical maze out here.” The security situation could change rapidly if shortages of food, water and other basic supplies reach a critical level, the agency warned. With thousands in Port-au-Prince left homeless by destroyed or badly damaged houses, many are sleeping in the streets or at spontaneous settlements in public parks and other spaces. World Vision staff have seen people living in very unsanitary and hazardous conditions. Supplies running low; resupply begins World Vision, which has worked in Haiti more than 30 years, today reached an additional 1,000 families with relief items already stored in the country, but many urgent items such as clean water, medical supplies and emergency shelter resources were running low. Toycen reported via Twitter: “Distributions are in full force - trying to reach as many people as possible. Still a steep curve to reach all those affected.” World Vision’s supply chain is ramping up to bring in badly needed supplies. The first of a series of flights bringing emergency supplies for World Vision relief efforts in Haiti touched down in Port-au-Prince on Friday evening. A Hercules C130 brought items such as hygiene kits, blankets, water containers, and shelter materials from World Vision’s warehouse in Denver. The aid group is planning more flights this weekend from Panama City, Toronto, and an additional flight from Denver, bringing more supplies, including medicines, tents, and shovels to remove debris. World Vision staff are finding alternatives to the congested Port-au-Prince airport, including bringing supplies overland from airports and ports in the Dominican Republic, where the agency has a sizable presence. Provide first aid World Vision teams have distributed first-aid supplies to more than ten hospitals in the Port-au-Prince area. “Some volunteer teachers have been performing first aid for the past day or two to those who have been injured,” reported Toycen. However, he fears many will die of their injuries if not tended to soon. “We are racing against the clock.” Many of the injured have started to develop gangrene because they did not receive timely and adequate medical care. Family members of patients are taking measures into their own hands since the hospital system is completely overwhelmed and suffering serious structural damages; one World Vision volunteer saw an amputation performed in the hallways of the general hospital using unhygienic tools. World Vision volunteers also have seen a severed foot become an amputated leg because the wounds were not sterilised. Amputation tools and supplies to sterilise wounds are in short supply; World Vision anticipates a need for significant amounts of crutches and braces for earthquake amputees. Children alone and at risk World Vision has started to identify children who have become separated from their parents. The organisation has expressed concern about the number of children who are leaving Port-au-Prince and walking into towns outside the city to find help. World Vision’s Dominican Republic staff in the border town of Jimani are helping provide food, water, and medical care to hundreds of unaccompanied children who fled Port-au-Prince for the border, either alone or who became separated from parents along the way. There were a significant number of children in orphanages prior to the disaster, and World Vision staff acknowledge that the earthquake certainly has created more orphans. Because the quake struck during school hours, there are hundreds of children who simply have not found their parents. ============================ http://www.worldvision.org/content.nsf/learn/haiti-relief?OpenDocument&lpos=top_drp_OurWork_HaitiRelief ---------------------------- WASH CLUSTER CONTACTS (Sanitation/Hygiene): Andrew Jalanski andrew.jalanski @worldvision.com.au Elvire Douglas - elvire_douglas @wvi.org 011-509-3448-4158 ------------------------------ SHELTER CLUSTER: David_Kehoe @wvi.org (works dist.) ----------------------------- CCCM (Camp) Cluster: Lindsay Gladding 011-509-3452-4843 Liz Satow liz_satow @wvi.org (+41) 797440668 Rod Imer rod_imer @wvi.org (+41)788679673
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cat_notes: Removed article and replaced with update from the website 1/17/10 LTel: http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/01/12/haiti.earthquake/index.html?section=cnn_latest (CNN) -- A major earthquake struck southern Haiti on Tuesday, knocking down buildings and power lines and inflicting what its ambassador to the United States called a catastrophe for the Western Hemisphere's poorest nation. Several eyewitnesses reported heavy damage and bodies in the streets of the capital, Port-au-Prince, where concrete-block homes line steep hillsides. There was no estimate of the dead and wounded Tuesday evening, but the U.S. State Department has been told to expect "serious loss of life," department spokesman P.J. Crowley told reporters in Washington. "The only thing I can do now is pray and hope for the best," the ambassador, Raymond Alcide Joseph, told CNN. Pictures sent to CNN's iReport show homes and small businesses in Haiti that have collapsed. Are you there? Submit an iReport The magnitude 7.0 quake -- the most powerful to hit Haiti in a century -- struck shortly before 5 p.m. and was centered about 10 miles (15 kilometers) southwest of Port-au-Prince, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. It could be felt strongly in eastern Cuba, more than 200 miles away, witnesses said. Video: Destruction in Haiti Video: Witness describes 'severe jolting' Video: 'I felt the house shaking' Interactive: Measuring earthquakes Interactive: Haiti map Experts warned of earthquake risk on Haiti Mike Godfrey, an American contractor working for the U.S. Agency for International Development, said "a huge plume of dust and smoke rose up over the city" within minutes of the quake -- "a blanket that completely covered the city and obscured it for about 20 minutes." Witnesses reported damaged buildings throughout the capital, including the president's residence and century-old homes nearby, and The Associated Press reported that a hospital collapsed. President Rene Preval is safe, Joseph said, but there was no estimate of the dead and wounded Tuesday evening. He said an official of his government told him houses had crumbled "on the right side of the street and the left side of the street." "He said it is a catastrophe of major proportions," Joseph said. Impact Your World: How you can help Frank Williams, the Haitian director of the relief agency World Vision International, said the quake left people "pretty much screaming" all around Port-au-Prince. He said the agency's building shook for about 35 seconds, "and portions of things on the building fell off." "None of our staff were injured, but lots of walls are falling down," Williams said. "Many of our staff have tried to leave, but were unsuccessful because the walls from buildings and private residences are falling into the streets, so that it has pretty much blocked significantly most of the traffic." Read what people in Haiti are saying via social media Haiti's government is backed by a U.N. peacekeeping mission established after the ouster of former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in 2004. The headquarters of the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Port-au-Prince collapsed, a U.N. official told CNN. There was no immediate report of any dead or wounded from the building, but Alain Le Roy, the undersecretary-general for peacekeeping operations said of the 9,000-member, Brazilian led-force, "For the moment, a large number of personnel remain unaccounted for." Outside the capital, several people were hurt when they rushed to get out of a school in the southwestern city of Les Cayes, said the Rev. Kesner Ajax, the school's executive director. Two homes in the area collapsed and the top of a church collapsed in a nearby town, he said, but he did not know of any fatalities. Les Cayes, a city of about 400,000 people, is about 140 miles (225 kilometers) southwest of Port-au-Prince. The quake took place about 6 miles (10 kilometers) underground, according to the USGS -- a depth that can produce severe shaking. At least 10 aftershocks followed, including two in the magnitude 5 range, the USGS reported. Appeals for aid after quake strikes Haiti Jean Bernard, an eyewitness in Port-au-Prince, told CNN the city had no electricity Tuesday evening. The first quake lasted 35 to 40 seconds, he said. "A lot of houses [and] buildings went down, and people are still running all over the streets," Bernard said. "People are looking for their wives, looking for their husbands and their kids. It's scary." Luke Renner, an American staying in Cap-Hatien, a city nearly 100 miles north of Port-au-Prince, said he was sitting at his home when "the whole world started to shake." "It felt like our whole house was balancing on a beach ball," Renner said. "We heard the whole community screaming and in an uproar during that whole 20- to 30-second window." "I haven't seen any structural damage here," Renner continued. "With the sun setting it may be difficult to tell. In the morning we'll know for sure." Because of the earthquake's proximity to the capital, and because the city is densely populated and has poorly constructed housing, "it could cause significant casualties," said Jian Lin, a senior geologist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts. In Washington, President Obama said the U.S. government would "stand ready to assist the people of Haiti." At the Pentagon, the U.S. military said humanitarian aid was being prepared for shipping, but it was not yet clear where or how it would be sent. A U.S. aviation source said the control tower at the Port-au-Prince international airport collapsed, possibly hindering efforts to fly relief supplies into the country. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told reporters that Washington is offering "our full assistance" to Haiti." The deputy chief of the U.S. mission in Haiti, David Lindwall, told Clinton that he saw "significant damage" from the quake and said U.S. officials there expect "serious loss of life," Crowley said. And Clinton's husband, former President Clinton -- now the U.N. special envoy for Haiti -- said the world body was "committed to do whatever we can to assist the people of Haiti in their relief, rebuilding and recovery efforts." The United States has been heavily involved in Haiti commercially, politically and militarily for most of the last century. U.S. intervention under Clinton restored Aristide to power in 1994 after a 1991 coup, and a U.S. jet hustled him out of the country again in 2004 following a rapidly spreading uprising against his government. The disaster is the latest to befall the country of about 9 million people, roughly the size of Maryland. It is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere and among the poorest in the world. With people stripping the trees for fuel and to clear land for agriculture, the mountainous countryside has been heavily deforested. That has led to severe erosion and left Haitians vulnerable to massive landslides when heavy rains fall. Hurricane Gordon killed more than 1,000 people in 1994, while Hurricane Georges killed more than 400 and destroyed the majority of the country's crops in 1998. And in 2004, Hurricane Jeanne killed more than 3,000 people as it passed north of Haiti, with most of the deaths in the northwestern city of Gonaives. Gonaives was hit heavily again in 2008, when four tropical systems passed through. In addition, a Haitian school collapsed in November 2008, killing more than 90 people and injuring 150 -- a disaster authorities blamed on poor construction. Eighty percent of Haiti's population lives under the poverty line, according to the CIA World Factbook. ->

town: Port-au-Prince, Petionville (and various locales) -> Port-au-Prince, Petionville, St. Martin (and various locales)
name: World Vision International, Haiti (WASH/Protection Cluster) - (DIST.: FOOD/HYGIENE-COOKING KITS/SHELTER SUPPLIES/WATER CONTAINERS/BLANKETS) -> World Vision International, Haiti (WASH/Protection/Camp Cluster) - (DIST.: FOOD/HYGIENE-COOKING KITS/SHELTER SUPPLIES/WATER CONTAINERS/BLANKETS)
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town: Port-au-Prince -> Port-au-Prince, Petionville (and various locales)
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name: World Vision International, Haiti (WASH Cluster) - (DIST.: FOOD/HYGIENE-COOKING KITS/SHELTER SUPPLIES/WATER CONTAINERS/BLANKETS) -> World Vision International, Haiti (WASH/Protection Cluster) - (DIST.: FOOD/HYGIENE-COOKING KITS/SHELTER SUPPLIES/WATER CONTAINERS/BLANKETS)
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name: World Vision International, Haiti - (DIST.: FOOD/HYGIENE KITS/COOKING KITS/SHELTER SUPPLIES/WATER CONTAINERS/BLANKETS) -> World Vision International, Haiti (WASH Cluster) - (DIST.: FOOD/HYGIENE-COOKING KITS/SHELTER SUPPLIES/WATER CONTAINERS/BLANKETS)
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notes: In partnership with Operation Hope for Haiti http://www.operationhopehaiti.com/ ================= FROM THE WEBSITE: Haiti: Concern for children grows 16 Jan 2010 By World Vision staff World Vision relief workers, in a race against time to save lives in Haiti, got a boost as relief goods began arriving in Haiti’s quake-ravaged capital city yesterday. Meanwhile, World Vision staff's concern for Haiti’s children continues to grow as they find more and more children separated from their parents. Broken infrastructure a key challenge Difficulties with broken infrastructure, limited airport capacity and concerns about potential security threats in Haiti slowed the delivery of humanitarian supplies to hard-hit areas in the first days after the quake. Even ambulances are in short supply, reported World Vision staff. “The basics are the hardest,” said Dave Toycen, president of World Vision Canada. “There was a mile-long line for gasoline. It's a logistical maze out here.” The security situation could change rapidly if shortages of food, water and other basic supplies reach a critical level, the agency warned. With thousands in Port-au-Prince left homeless by destroyed or badly damaged houses, many are sleeping in the streets or at spontaneous settlements in public parks and other spaces. World Vision staff have seen people living in very unsanitary and hazardous conditions. Supplies running low; resupply begins World Vision, which has worked in Haiti more than 30 years, today reached an additional 1,000 families with relief items already stored in the country, but many urgent items such as clean water, medical supplies and emergency shelter resources were running low. Toycen reported via Twitter: “Distributions are in full force - trying to reach as many people as possible. Still a steep curve to reach all those affected.” World Vision’s supply chain is ramping up to bring in badly needed supplies. The first of a series of flights bringing emergency supplies for World Vision relief efforts in Haiti touched down in Port-au-Prince on Friday evening. A Hercules C130 brought items such as hygiene kits, blankets, water containers, and shelter materials from World Vision’s warehouse in Denver. The aid group is planning more flights this weekend from Panama City, Toronto, and an additional flight from Denver, bringing more supplies, including medicines, tents, and shovels to remove debris. World Vision staff are finding alternatives to the congested Port-au-Prince airport, including bringing supplies overland from airports and ports in the Dominican Republic, where the agency has a sizable presence. Provide first aid World Vision teams have distributed first-aid supplies to more than ten hospitals in the Port-au-Prince area. “Some volunteer teachers have been performing first aid for the past day or two to those who have been injured,” reported Toycen. However, he fears many will die of their injuries if not tended to soon. “We are racing against the clock.” Many of the injured have started to develop gangrene because they did not receive timely and adequate medical care. Family members of patients are taking measures into their own hands since the hospital system is completely overwhelmed and suffering serious structural damages; one World Vision volunteer saw an amputation performed in the hallways of the general hospital using unhygienic tools. World Vision volunteers also have seen a severed foot become an amputated leg because the wounds were not sterilised. Amputation tools and supplies to sterilise wounds are in short supply; World Vision anticipates a need for significant amounts of crutches and braces for earthquake amputees. Children alone and at risk World Vision has started to identify children who have become separated from their parents. The organisation has expressed concern about the number of children who are leaving Port-au-Prince and walking into towns outside the city to find help. World Vision’s Dominican Republic staff in the border town of Jimani are helping provide food, water, and medical care to hundreds of unaccompanied children who fled Port-au-Prince for the border, either alone or who became separated from parents along the way. There were a significant number of children in orphanages prior to the disaster, and World Vision staff acknowledge that the earthquake certainly has created more orphans. Because the quake struck during school hours, there are hundreds of children who simply have not found their parents. -> FACEBOOK - http://www.facebook.com/worldvision In partnership with Operation Hope for Haiti http://www.operationhopehaiti.com/ ================= FROM THE WEBSITE: Haiti: Concern for children grows 16 Jan 2010 By World Vision staff World Vision relief workers, in a race against time to save lives in Haiti, got a boost as relief goods began arriving in Haiti’s quake-ravaged capital city yesterday. Meanwhile, World Vision staff's concern for Haiti’s children continues to grow as they find more and more children separated from their parents. Broken infrastructure a key challenge Difficulties with broken infrastructure, limited airport capacity and concerns about potential security threats in Haiti slowed the delivery of humanitarian supplies to hard-hit areas in the first days after the quake. Even ambulances are in short supply, reported World Vision staff. “The basics are the hardest,” said Dave Toycen, president of World Vision Canada. “There was a mile-long line for gasoline. It's a logistical maze out here.” The security situation could change rapidly if shortages of food, water and other basic supplies reach a critical level, the agency warned. With thousands in Port-au-Prince left homeless by destroyed or badly damaged houses, many are sleeping in the streets or at spontaneous settlements in public parks and other spaces. World Vision staff have seen people living in very unsanitary and hazardous conditions. Supplies running low; resupply begins World Vision, which has worked in Haiti more than 30 years, today reached an additional 1,000 families with relief items already stored in the country, but many urgent items such as clean water, medical supplies and emergency shelter resources were running low. Toycen reported via Twitter: “Distributions are in full force - trying to reach as many people as possible. Still a steep curve to reach all those affected.” World Vision’s supply chain is ramping up to bring in badly needed supplies. The first of a series of flights bringing emergency supplies for World Vision relief efforts in Haiti touched down in Port-au-Prince on Friday evening. A Hercules C130 brought items such as hygiene kits, blankets, water containers, and shelter materials from World Vision’s warehouse in Denver. The aid group is planning more flights this weekend from Panama City, Toronto, and an additional flight from Denver, bringing more supplies, including medicines, tents, and shovels to remove debris. World Vision staff are finding alternatives to the congested Port-au-Prince airport, including bringing supplies overland from airports and ports in the Dominican Republic, where the agency has a sizable presence. Provide first aid World Vision teams have distributed first-aid supplies to more than ten hospitals in the Port-au-Prince area. “Some volunteer teachers have been performing first aid for the past day or two to those who have been injured,” reported Toycen. However, he fears many will die of their injuries if not tended to soon. “We are racing against the clock.” Many of the injured have started to develop gangrene because they did not receive timely and adequate medical care. Family members of patients are taking measures into their own hands since the hospital system is completely overwhelmed and suffering serious structural damages; one World Vision volunteer saw an amputation performed in the hallways of the general hospital using unhygienic tools. World Vision volunteers also have seen a severed foot become an amputated leg because the wounds were not sterilised. Amputation tools and supplies to sterilise wounds are in short supply; World Vision anticipates a need for significant amounts of crutches and braces for earthquake amputees. Children alone and at risk World Vision has started to identify children who have become separated from their parents. The organisation has expressed concern about the number of children who are leaving Port-au-Prince and walking into towns outside the city to find help. World Vision’s Dominican Republic staff in the border town of Jimani are helping provide food, water, and medical care to hundreds of unaccompanied children who fled Port-au-Prince for the border, either alone or who became separated from parents along the way. There were a significant number of children in orphanages prior to the disaster, and World Vision staff acknowledge that the earthquake certainly has created more orphans. Because the quake struck during school hours, there are hundreds of children who simply have not found their parents. ============================ http://www.worldvision.org/content.nsf/learn/haiti-relief?OpenDocument&lpos=top_drp_OurWork_HaitiRelief

name: World Vision International, Haiti - In partnership with Operation Hope for Haiti -(DIST.: FOOD/HYGIENE KITS/COOKING KITS/SHELTER SUPPLIES/WATER CONTAINERS/BLANKETS) -> World Vision International, Haiti - (DIST.: FOOD/HYGIENE KITS/COOKING KITS/SHELTER SUPPLIES/WATER CONTAINERS/BLANKETS)
notes: FROM THE WEBSITE: Haiti: Concern for children grows 16 Jan 2010 By World Vision staff World Vision relief workers, in a race against time to save lives in Haiti, got a boost as relief goods began arriving in Haiti’s quake-ravaged capital city yesterday. Meanwhile, World Vision staff's concern for Haiti’s children continues to grow as they find more and more children separated from their parents. Broken infrastructure a key challenge Difficulties with broken infrastructure, limited airport capacity and concerns about potential security threats in Haiti slowed the delivery of humanitarian supplies to hard-hit areas in the first days after the quake. Even ambulances are in short supply, reported World Vision staff. “The basics are the hardest,” said Dave Toycen, president of World Vision Canada. “There was a mile-long line for gasoline. It's a logistical maze out here.” The security situation could change rapidly if shortages of food, water and other basic supplies reach a critical level, the agency warned. With thousands in Port-au-Prince left homeless by destroyed or badly damaged houses, many are sleeping in the streets or at spontaneous settlements in public parks and other spaces. World Vision staff have seen people living in very unsanitary and hazardous conditions. Supplies running low; resupply begins World Vision, which has worked in Haiti more than 30 years, today reached an additional 1,000 families with relief items already stored in the country, but many urgent items such as clean water, medical supplies and emergency shelter resources were running low. Toycen reported via Twitter: “Distributions are in full force - trying to reach as many people as possible. Still a steep curve to reach all those affected.” World Vision’s supply chain is ramping up to bring in badly needed supplies. The first of a series of flights bringing emergency supplies for World Vision relief efforts in Haiti touched down in Port-au-Prince on Friday evening. A Hercules C130 brought items such as hygiene kits, blankets, water containers, and shelter materials from World Vision’s warehouse in Denver. The aid group is planning more flights this weekend from Panama City, Toronto, and an additional flight from Denver, bringing more supplies, including medicines, tents, and shovels to remove debris. World Vision staff are finding alternatives to the congested Port-au-Prince airport, including bringing supplies overland from airports and ports in the Dominican Republic, where the agency has a sizable presence. Provide first aid World Vision teams have distributed first-aid supplies to more than ten hospitals in the Port-au-Prince area. “Some volunteer teachers have been performing first aid for the past day or two to those who have been injured,” reported Toycen. However, he fears many will die of their injuries if not tended to soon. “We are racing against the clock.” Many of the injured have started to develop gangrene because they did not receive timely and adequate medical care. Family members of patients are taking measures into their own hands since the hospital system is completely overwhelmed and suffering serious structural damages; one World Vision volunteer saw an amputation performed in the hallways of the general hospital using unhygienic tools. World Vision volunteers also have seen a severed foot become an amputated leg because the wounds were not sterilised. Amputation tools and supplies to sterilise wounds are in short supply; World Vision anticipates a need for significant amounts of crutches and braces for earthquake amputees. Children alone and at risk World Vision has started to identify children who have become separated from their parents. The organisation has expressed concern about the number of children who are leaving Port-au-Prince and walking into towns outside the city to find help. World Vision’s Dominican Republic staff in the border town of Jimani are helping provide food, water, and medical care to hundreds of unaccompanied children who fled Port-au-Prince for the border, either alone or who became separated from parents along the way. There were a significant number of children in orphanages prior to the disaster, and World Vision staff acknowledge that the earthquake certainly has created more orphans. Because the quake struck during school hours, there are hundreds of children who simply have not found their parents. -> In partnership with Operation Hope for Haiti http://www.operationhopehaiti.com/ ================= FROM THE WEBSITE: Haiti: Concern for children grows 16 Jan 2010 By World Vision staff World Vision relief workers, in a race against time to save lives in Haiti, got a boost as relief goods began arriving in Haiti’s quake-ravaged capital city yesterday. Meanwhile, World Vision staff's concern for Haiti’s children continues to grow as they find more and more children separated from their parents. Broken infrastructure a key challenge Difficulties with broken infrastructure, limited airport capacity and concerns about potential security threats in Haiti slowed the delivery of humanitarian supplies to hard-hit areas in the first days after the quake. Even ambulances are in short supply, reported World Vision staff. “The basics are the hardest,” said Dave Toycen, president of World Vision Canada. “There was a mile-long line for gasoline. It's a logistical maze out here.” The security situation could change rapidly if shortages of food, water and other basic supplies reach a critical level, the agency warned. With thousands in Port-au-Prince left homeless by destroyed or badly damaged houses, many are sleeping in the streets or at spontaneous settlements in public parks and other spaces. World Vision staff have seen people living in very unsanitary and hazardous conditions. Supplies running low; resupply begins World Vision, which has worked in Haiti more than 30 years, today reached an additional 1,000 families with relief items already stored in the country, but many urgent items such as clean water, medical supplies and emergency shelter resources were running low. Toycen reported via Twitter: “Distributions are in full force - trying to reach as many people as possible. Still a steep curve to reach all those affected.” World Vision’s supply chain is ramping up to bring in badly needed supplies. The first of a series of flights bringing emergency supplies for World Vision relief efforts in Haiti touched down in Port-au-Prince on Friday evening. A Hercules C130 brought items such as hygiene kits, blankets, water containers, and shelter materials from World Vision’s warehouse in Denver. The aid group is planning more flights this weekend from Panama City, Toronto, and an additional flight from Denver, bringing more supplies, including medicines, tents, and shovels to remove debris. World Vision staff are finding alternatives to the congested Port-au-Prince airport, including bringing supplies overland from airports and ports in the Dominican Republic, where the agency has a sizable presence. Provide first aid World Vision teams have distributed first-aid supplies to more than ten hospitals in the Port-au-Prince area. “Some volunteer teachers have been performing first aid for the past day or two to those who have been injured,” reported Toycen. However, he fears many will die of their injuries if not tended to soon. “We are racing against the clock.” Many of the injured have started to develop gangrene because they did not receive timely and adequate medical care. Family members of patients are taking measures into their own hands since the hospital system is completely overwhelmed and suffering serious structural damages; one World Vision volunteer saw an amputation performed in the hallways of the general hospital using unhygienic tools. World Vision volunteers also have seen a severed foot become an amputated leg because the wounds were not sterilised. Amputation tools and supplies to sterilise wounds are in short supply; World Vision anticipates a need for significant amounts of crutches and braces for earthquake amputees. Children alone and at risk World Vision has started to identify children who have become separated from their parents. The organisation has expressed concern about the number of children who are leaving Port-au-Prince and walking into towns outside the city to find help. World Vision’s Dominican Republic staff in the border town of Jimani are helping provide food, water, and medical care to hundreds of unaccompanied children who fled Port-au-Prince for the border, either alone or who became separated from parents along the way. There were a significant number of children in orphanages prior to the disaster, and World Vision staff acknowledge that the earthquake certainly has created more orphans. Because the quake struck during school hours, there are hundreds of children who simply have not found their parents.
website: http://www.operationhopehaiti.com/ -> http://www.worldvision.org/

name: World Vision International, Haiti (DIST.: FOOD/HYGIENE KITS/COOKING KITS/SHELTER SUPPLIES/WATER CONTAINERS/BLANKETS) -> World Vision International, Haiti - In partnership with Operation Hope for Haiti -(DIST.: FOOD/HYGIENE KITS/COOKING KITS/SHELTER SUPPLIES/WATER CONTAINERS/BLANKETS)
website: http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/01/12/haiti.earthquake/index.html?section=cnn_latest -> http://www.operationhopehaiti.com/

name: World Vision International, Haiti (distributing food, shelter supplies, water containers, cooking kits, hygiene supplies and blankets) -> World Vision International, Haiti (DIST.: FOOD/HYGIENE KITS/COOKING KITS/SHELTER SUPPLIES/WATER CONTAINERS/BLANKETS)

region: Haiti, Carribean -> Haiti, Caribbean

name: World Vision International, Haiti -> World Vision International, Haiti (distributing food, shelter supplies, water containers, cooking kits, hygiene supplies and blankets)

region: Carribean -> Haiti, Carribean

notes: http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/01/12/haiti.earthquake/index.html?section=cnn_latest (CNN) -- A major earthquake struck southern Haiti on Tuesday, knocking down buildings and power lines and inflicting what its ambassador to the United States called a catastrophe for the Western Hemisphere's poorest nation. Several eyewitnesses reported heavy damage and bodies in the streets of the capital, Port-au-Prince, where concrete-block homes line steep hillsides. There was no estimate of the dead and wounded Tuesday evening, but the U.S. State Department has been told to expect "serious loss of life," department spokesman P.J. Crowley told reporters in Washington. "The only thing I can do now is pray and hope for the best," the ambassador, Raymond Alcide Joseph, told CNN. Pictures sent to CNN's iReport show homes and small businesses in Haiti that have collapsed. Are you there? Submit an iReport The magnitude 7.0 quake -- the most powerful to hit Haiti in a century -- struck shortly before 5 p.m. and was centered about 10 miles (15 kilometers) southwest of Port-au-Prince, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. It could be felt strongly in eastern Cuba, more than 200 miles away, witnesses said. Video: Destruction in Haiti Video: Witness describes 'severe jolting' Video: 'I felt the house shaking' Interactive: Measuring earthquakes Interactive: Haiti map Experts warned of earthquake risk on Haiti Mike Godfrey, an American contractor working for the U.S. Agency for International Development, said "a huge plume of dust and smoke rose up over the city" within minutes of the quake -- "a blanket that completely covered the city and obscured it for about 20 minutes." Witnesses reported damaged buildings throughout the capital, including the president's residence and century-old homes nearby, and The Associated Press reported that a hospital collapsed. President Rene Preval is safe, Joseph said, but there was no estimate of the dead and wounded Tuesday evening. He said an official of his government told him houses had crumbled "on the right side of the street and the left side of the street." "He said it is a catastrophe of major proportions," Joseph said. Impact Your World: How you can help Frank Williams, the Haitian director of the relief agency World Vision International, said the quake left people "pretty much screaming" all around Port-au-Prince. He said the agency's building shook for about 35 seconds, "and portions of things on the building fell off." "None of our staff were injured, but lots of walls are falling down," Williams said. "Many of our staff have tried to leave, but were unsuccessful because the walls from buildings and private residences are falling into the streets, so that it has pretty much blocked significantly most of the traffic." Read what people in Haiti are saying via social media Haiti's government is backed by a U.N. peacekeeping mission established after the ouster of former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in 2004. The headquarters of the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Port-au-Prince collapsed, a U.N. official told CNN. There was no immediate report of any dead or wounded from the building, but Alain Le Roy, the undersecretary-general for peacekeeping operations said of the 9,000-member, Brazilian led-force, "For the moment, a large number of personnel remain unaccounted for." Outside the capital, several people were hurt when they rushed to get out of a school in the southwestern city of Les Cayes, said the Rev. Kesner Ajax, the school's executive director. Two homes in the area collapsed and the top of a church collapsed in a nearby town, he said, but he did not know of any fatalities. Les Cayes, a city of about 400,000 people, is about 140 miles (225 kilometers) southwest of Port-au-Prince. The quake took place about 6 miles (10 kilometers) underground, according to the USGS -- a depth that can produce severe shaking. At least 10 aftershocks followed, including two in the magnitude 5 range, the USGS reported. Appeals for aid after quake strikes Haiti Jean Bernard, an eyewitness in Port-au-Prince, told CNN the city had no electricity Tuesday evening. The first quake lasted 35 to 40 seconds, he said. "A lot of houses [and] buildings went down, and people are still running all over the streets," Bernard said. "People are looking for their wives, looking for their husbands and their kids. It's scary." Luke Renner, an American staying in Cap-Hatien, a city nearly 100 miles north of Port-au-Prince, said he was sitting at his home when "the whole world started to shake." "It felt like our whole house was balancing on a beach ball," Renner said. "We heard the whole community screaming and in an uproar during that whole 20- to 30-second window." "I haven't seen any structural damage here," Renner continued. "With the sun setting it may be difficult to tell. In the morning we'll know for sure." Because of the earthquake's proximity to the capital, and because the city is densely populated and has poorly constructed housing, "it could cause significant casualties," said Jian Lin, a senior geologist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts. In Washington, President Obama said the U.S. government would "stand ready to assist the people of Haiti." At the Pentagon, the U.S. military said humanitarian aid was being prepared for shipping, but it was not yet clear where or how it would be sent. A U.S. aviation source said the control tower at the Port-au-Prince international airport collapsed, possibly hindering efforts to fly relief supplies into the country. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told reporters that Washington is offering "our full assistance" to Haiti." The deputy chief of the U.S. mission in Haiti, David Lindwall, told Clinton that he saw "significant damage" from the quake and said U.S. officials there expect "serious loss of life," Crowley said. And Clinton's husband, former President Clinton -- now the U.N. special envoy for Haiti -- said the world body was "committed to do whatever we can to assist the people of Haiti in their relief, rebuilding and recovery efforts." The United States has been heavily involved in Haiti commercially, politically and militarily for most of the last century. U.S. intervention under Clinton restored Aristide to power in 1994 after a 1991 coup, and a U.S. jet hustled him out of the country again in 2004 following a rapidly spreading uprising against his government. The disaster is the latest to befall the country of about 9 million people, roughly the size of Maryland. It is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere and among the poorest in the world. With people stripping the trees for fuel and to clear land for agriculture, the mountainous countryside has been heavily deforested. That has led to severe erosion and left Haitians vulnerable to massive landslides when heavy rains fall. Hurricane Gordon killed more than 1,000 people in 1994, while Hurricane Georges killed more than 400 and destroyed the majority of the country's crops in 1998. And in 2004, Hurricane Jeanne killed more than 3,000 people as it passed north of Haiti, with most of the deaths in the northwestern city of Gonaives. Gonaives was hit heavily again in 2008, when four tropical systems passed through. In addition, a Haitian school collapsed in November 2008, killing more than 90 people and injuring 150 -- a disaster authorities blamed on poor construction. Eighty percent of Haiti's population lives under the poverty line, according to the CIA World Factbook. -> FROM THE WEBSITE: Haiti: Concern for children grows 16 Jan 2010 By World Vision staff World Vision relief workers, in a race against time to save lives in Haiti, got a boost as relief goods began arriving in Haiti’s quake-ravaged capital city yesterday. Meanwhile, World Vision staff's concern for Haiti’s children continues to grow as they find more and more children separated from their parents. Broken infrastructure a key challenge Difficulties with broken infrastructure, limited airport capacity and concerns about potential security threats in Haiti slowed the delivery of humanitarian supplies to hard-hit areas in the first days after the quake. Even ambulances are in short supply, reported World Vision staff. “The basics are the hardest,” said Dave Toycen, president of World Vision Canada. “There was a mile-long line for gasoline. It's a logistical maze out here.” The security situation could change rapidly if shortages of food, water and other basic supplies reach a critical level, the agency warned. With thousands in Port-au-Prince left homeless by destroyed or badly damaged houses, many are sleeping in the streets or at spontaneous settlements in public parks and other spaces. World Vision staff have seen people living in very unsanitary and hazardous conditions. Supplies running low; resupply begins World Vision, which has worked in Haiti more than 30 years, today reached an additional 1,000 families with relief items already stored in the country, but many urgent items such as clean water, medical supplies and emergency shelter resources were running low. Toycen reported via Twitter: “Distributions are in full force - trying to reach as many people as possible. Still a steep curve to reach all those affected.” World Vision’s supply chain is ramping up to bring in badly needed supplies. The first of a series of flights bringing emergency supplies for World Vision relief efforts in Haiti touched down in Port-au-Prince on Friday evening. A Hercules C130 brought items such as hygiene kits, blankets, water containers, and shelter materials from World Vision’s warehouse in Denver. The aid group is planning more flights this weekend from Panama City, Toronto, and an additional flight from Denver, bringing more supplies, including medicines, tents, and shovels to remove debris. World Vision staff are finding alternatives to the congested Port-au-Prince airport, including bringing supplies overland from airports and ports in the Dominican Republic, where the agency has a sizable presence. Provide first aid World Vision teams have distributed first-aid supplies to more than ten hospitals in the Port-au-Prince area. “Some volunteer teachers have been performing first aid for the past day or two to those who have been injured,” reported Toycen. However, he fears many will die of their injuries if not tended to soon. “We are racing against the clock.” Many of the injured have started to develop gangrene because they did not receive timely and adequate medical care. Family members of patients are taking measures into their own hands since the hospital system is completely overwhelmed and suffering serious structural damages; one World Vision volunteer saw an amputation performed in the hallways of the general hospital using unhygienic tools. World Vision volunteers also have seen a severed foot become an amputated leg because the wounds were not sterilised. Amputation tools and supplies to sterilise wounds are in short supply; World Vision anticipates a need for significant amounts of crutches and braces for earthquake amputees. Children alone and at risk World Vision has started to identify children who have become separated from their parents. The organisation has expressed concern about the number of children who are leaving Port-au-Prince and walking into towns outside the city to find help. World Vision’s Dominican Republic staff in the border town of Jimani are helping provide food, water, and medical care to hundreds of unaccompanied children who fled Port-au-Prince for the border, either alone or who became separated from parents along the way. There were a significant number of children in orphanages prior to the disaster, and World Vision staff acknowledge that the earthquake certainly has created more orphans. Because the quake struck during school hours, there are hundreds of children who simply have not found their parents.
cat_notes: -> Removed article and replaced with update from the website 1/17/10 LTel: http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/01/12/haiti.earthquake/index.html?section=cnn_latest (CNN) -- A major earthquake struck southern Haiti on Tuesday, knocking down buildings and power lines and inflicting what its ambassador to the United States called a catastrophe for the Western Hemisphere's poorest nation. Several eyewitnesses reported heavy damage and bodies in the streets of the capital, Port-au-Prince, where concrete-block homes line steep hillsides. There was no estimate of the dead and wounded Tuesday evening, but the U.S. State Department has been told to expect "serious loss of life," department spokesman P.J. Crowley told reporters in Washington. "The only thing I can do now is pray and hope for the best," the ambassador, Raymond Alcide Joseph, told CNN. Pictures sent to CNN's iReport show homes and small businesses in Haiti that have collapsed. Are you there? Submit an iReport The magnitude 7.0 quake -- the most powerful to hit Haiti in a century -- struck shortly before 5 p.m. and was centered about 10 miles (15 kilometers) southwest of Port-au-Prince, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. It could be felt strongly in eastern Cuba, more than 200 miles away, witnesses said. Video: Destruction in Haiti Video: Witness describes 'severe jolting' Video: 'I felt the house shaking' Interactive: Measuring earthquakes Interactive: Haiti map Experts warned of earthquake risk on Haiti Mike Godfrey, an American contractor working for the U.S. Agency for International Development, said "a huge plume of dust and smoke rose up over the city" within minutes of the quake -- "a blanket that completely covered the city and obscured it for about 20 minutes." Witnesses reported damaged buildings throughout the capital, including the president's residence and century-old homes nearby, and The Associated Press reported that a hospital collapsed. President Rene Preval is safe, Joseph said, but there was no estimate of the dead and wounded Tuesday evening. He said an official of his government told him houses had crumbled "on the right side of the street and the left side of the street." "He said it is a catastrophe of major proportions," Joseph said. Impact Your World: How you can help Frank Williams, the Haitian director of the relief agency World Vision International, said the quake left people "pretty much screaming" all around Port-au-Prince. He said the agency's building shook for about 35 seconds, "and portions of things on the building fell off." "None of our staff were injured, but lots of walls are falling down," Williams said. "Many of our staff have tried to leave, but were unsuccessful because the walls from buildings and private residences are falling into the streets, so that it has pretty much blocked significantly most of the traffic." Read what people in Haiti are saying via social media Haiti's government is backed by a U.N. peacekeeping mission established after the ouster of former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in 2004. The headquarters of the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Port-au-Prince collapsed, a U.N. official told CNN. There was no immediate report of any dead or wounded from the building, but Alain Le Roy, the undersecretary-general for peacekeeping operations said of the 9,000-member, Brazilian led-force, "For the moment, a large number of personnel remain unaccounted for." Outside the capital, several people were hurt when they rushed to get out of a school in the southwestern city of Les Cayes, said the Rev. Kesner Ajax, the school's executive director. Two homes in the area collapsed and the top of a church collapsed in a nearby town, he said, but he did not know of any fatalities. Les Cayes, a city of about 400,000 people, is about 140 miles (225 kilometers) southwest of Port-au-Prince. The quake took place about 6 miles (10 kilometers) underground, according to the USGS -- a depth that can produce severe shaking. At least 10 aftershocks followed, including two in the magnitude 5 range, the USGS reported. Appeals for aid after quake strikes Haiti Jean Bernard, an eyewitness in Port-au-Prince, told CNN the city had no electricity Tuesday evening. The first quake lasted 35 to 40 seconds, he said. "A lot of houses [and] buildings went down, and people are still running all over the streets," Bernard said. "People are looking for their wives, looking for their husbands and their kids. It's scary." Luke Renner, an American staying in Cap-Hatien, a city nearly 100 miles north of Port-au-Prince, said he was sitting at his home when "the whole world started to shake." "It felt like our whole house was balancing on a beach ball," Renner said. "We heard the whole community screaming and in an uproar during that whole 20- to 30-second window." "I haven't seen any structural damage here," Renner continued. "With the sun setting it may be difficult to tell. In the morning we'll know for sure." Because of the earthquake's proximity to the capital, and because the city is densely populated and has poorly constructed housing, "it could cause significant casualties," said Jian Lin, a senior geologist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts. In Washington, President Obama said the U.S. government would "stand ready to assist the people of Haiti." At the Pentagon, the U.S. military said humanitarian aid was being prepared for shipping, but it was not yet clear where or how it would be sent. A U.S. aviation source said the control tower at the Port-au-Prince international airport collapsed, possibly hindering efforts to fly relief supplies into the country. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told reporters that Washington is offering "our full assistance" to Haiti." The deputy chief of the U.S. mission in Haiti, David Lindwall, told Clinton that he saw "significant damage" from the quake and said U.S. officials there expect "serious loss of life," Crowley said. And Clinton's husband, former President Clinton -- now the U.N. special envoy for Haiti -- said the world body was "committed to do whatever we can to assist the people of Haiti in their relief, rebuilding and recovery efforts." The United States has been heavily involved in Haiti commercially, politically and militarily for most of the last century. U.S. intervention under Clinton restored Aristide to power in 1994 after a 1991 coup, and a U.S. jet hustled him out of the country again in 2004 following a rapidly spreading uprising against his government. The disaster is the latest to befall the country of about 9 million people, roughly the size of Maryland. It is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere and among the poorest in the world. With people stripping the trees for fuel and to clear land for agriculture, the mountainous countryside has been heavily deforested. That has led to severe erosion and left Haitians vulnerable to massive landslides when heavy rains fall. Hurricane Gordon killed more than 1,000 people in 1994, while Hurricane Georges killed more than 400 and destroyed the majority of the country's crops in 1998. And in 2004, Hurricane Jeanne killed more than 3,000 people as it passed north of Haiti, with most of the deaths in the northwestern city of Gonaives. Gonaives was hit heavily again in 2008, when four tropical systems passed through. In addition, a Haitian school collapsed in November 2008, killing more than 90 people and injuring 150 -- a disaster authorities blamed on poor construction. Eighty percent of Haiti's population lives under the poverty line, according to the CIA World Factbook.

town: Port-Au-Prince -> Port-au-Prince
region: -> Carribean
mission: World Vision responded to disasters and reduced the impact of relief emergencies in 60 countries in 2008, quickly providing food, water, shelter and other essentials to those in need. World Vision identifies places at risk of disaster, prepares resources and staff in high-risk zones, and builds capacity and resilience among communities to help them protect themselves before an emergency and rebuild afterwards. Each financial year, World Vision makes US$6 million available for urgent disaster responses. For large-scale emergencies, US$100,000 can be allocated immediately to save lives. Much larger funding can be mobilised within hours. -> World Vision responded to disasters and reduced the impact of relief emergencies in 60 countries in 2008, quickly providing food, water, shelter and other essentials to those in need. World Vision identifies places at risk of disaster, prepares resources and staff in high-risk zones, and builds capacity and resilience among communities to help them protect themselves before an emergency and rebuild afterwards. Each financial year, World Vision makes US$6 million available for urgent disaster responses. For large-scale emergencies, US$100,000 can be allocated immediately to save lives. Much larger funding can be mobilised within hours.

town: -> Port-Au-Prince
areas_served: -> Haiti
mission: World Vision responded to disasters and reduced the impact of relief emergencies in 60 countries in 2008, quickly providing food, water, shelter and other essentials to those in need. World Vision identifies places at risk of disaster, prepares resources and staff in high-risk zones, and builds capacity and resilience among communities to help them protect themselves before an emergency and rebuild afterwards. Each financial year, World Vision makes US$6 million available for urgent disaster responses. For large-scale emergencies, US$100,000 can be allocated immediately to save lives. Much larger funding can be mobilised within hours. -> World Vision responded to disasters and reduced the impact of relief emergencies in 60 countries in 2008, quickly providing food, water, shelter and other essentials to those in need. World Vision identifies places at risk of disaster, prepares resources and staff in high-risk zones, and builds capacity and resilience among communities to help them protect themselves before an emergency and rebuild afterwards. Each financial year, World Vision makes US$6 million available for urgent disaster responses. For large-scale emergencies, US$100,000 can be allocated immediately to save lives. Much larger funding can be mobilised within hours.

mission: -> World Vision responded to disasters and reduced the impact of relief emergencies in 60 countries in 2008, quickly providing food, water, shelter and other essentials to those in need. World Vision identifies places at risk of disaster, prepares resources and staff in high-risk zones, and builds capacity and resilience among communities to help them protect themselves before an emergency and rebuild afterwards. Each financial year, World Vision makes US$6 million available for urgent disaster responses. For large-scale emergencies, US$100,000 can be allocated immediately to save lives. Much larger funding can be mobilised within hours.

notes: -> http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/01/12/haiti.earthquake/index.html?section=cnn_latest (CNN) -- A major earthquake struck southern Haiti on Tuesday, knocking down buildings and power lines and inflicting what its ambassador to the United States called a catastrophe for the Western Hemisphere's poorest nation. Several eyewitnesses reported heavy damage and bodies in the streets of the capital, Port-au-Prince, where concrete-block homes line steep hillsides. There was no estimate of the dead and wounded Tuesday evening, but the U.S. State Department has been told to expect "serious loss of life," department spokesman P.J. Crowley told reporters in Washington. "The only thing I can do now is pray and hope for the best," the ambassador, Raymond Alcide Joseph, told CNN. Pictures sent to CNN's iReport show homes and small businesses in Haiti that have collapsed. Are you there? Submit an iReport The magnitude 7.0 quake -- the most powerful to hit Haiti in a century -- struck shortly before 5 p.m. and was centered about 10 miles (15 kilometers) southwest of Port-au-Prince, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. It could be felt strongly in eastern Cuba, more than 200 miles away, witnesses said. Video: Destruction in Haiti Video: Witness describes 'severe jolting' Video: 'I felt the house shaking' Interactive: Measuring earthquakes Interactive: Haiti map Experts warned of earthquake risk on Haiti Mike Godfrey, an American contractor working for the U.S. Agency for International Development, said "a huge plume of dust and smoke rose up over the city" within minutes of the quake -- "a blanket that completely covered the city and obscured it for about 20 minutes." Witnesses reported damaged buildings throughout the capital, including the president's residence and century-old homes nearby, and The Associated Press reported that a hospital collapsed. President Rene Preval is safe, Joseph said, but there was no estimate of the dead and wounded Tuesday evening. He said an official of his government told him houses had crumbled "on the right side of the street and the left side of the street." "He said it is a catastrophe of major proportions," Joseph said. Impact Your World: How you can help Frank Williams, the Haitian director of the relief agency World Vision International, said the quake left people "pretty much screaming" all around Port-au-Prince. He said the agency's building shook for about 35 seconds, "and portions of things on the building fell off." "None of our staff were injured, but lots of walls are falling down," Williams said. "Many of our staff have tried to leave, but were unsuccessful because the walls from buildings and private residences are falling into the streets, so that it has pretty much blocked significantly most of the traffic." Read what people in Haiti are saying via social media Haiti's government is backed by a U.N. peacekeeping mission established after the ouster of former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in 2004. The headquarters of the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Port-au-Prince collapsed, a U.N. official told CNN. There was no immediate report of any dead or wounded from the building, but Alain Le Roy, the undersecretary-general for peacekeeping operations said of the 9,000-member, Brazilian led-force, "For the moment, a large number of personnel remain unaccounted for." Outside the capital, several people were hurt when they rushed to get out of a school in the southwestern city of Les Cayes, said the Rev. Kesner Ajax, the school's executive director. Two homes in the area collapsed and the top of a church collapsed in a nearby town, he said, but he did not know of any fatalities. Les Cayes, a city of about 400,000 people, is about 140 miles (225 kilometers) southwest of Port-au-Prince. The quake took place about 6 miles (10 kilometers) underground, according to the USGS -- a depth that can produce severe shaking. At least 10 aftershocks followed, including two in the magnitude 5 range, the USGS reported. Appeals for aid after quake strikes Haiti Jean Bernard, an eyewitness in Port-au-Prince, told CNN the city had no electricity Tuesday evening. The first quake lasted 35 to 40 seconds, he said. "A lot of houses [and] buildings went down, and people are still running all over the streets," Bernard said. "People are looking for their wives, looking for their husbands and their kids. It's scary." Luke Renner, an American staying in Cap-Hatien, a city nearly 100 miles north of Port-au-Prince, said he was sitting at his home when "the whole world started to shake." "It felt like our whole house was balancing on a beach ball," Renner said. "We heard the whole community screaming and in an uproar during that whole 20- to 30-second window." "I haven't seen any structural damage here," Renner continued. "With the sun setting it may be difficult to tell. In the morning we'll know for sure." Because of the earthquake's proximity to the capital, and because the city is densely populated and has poorly constructed housing, "it could cause significant casualties," said Jian Lin, a senior geologist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts. In Washington, President Obama said the U.S. government would "stand ready to assist the people of Haiti." At the Pentagon, the U.S. military said humanitarian aid was being prepared for shipping, but it was not yet clear where or how it would be sent. A U.S. aviation source said the control tower at the Port-au-Prince international airport collapsed, possibly hindering efforts to fly relief supplies into the country. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told reporters that Washington is offering "our full assistance" to Haiti." The deputy chief of the U.S. mission in Haiti, David Lindwall, told Clinton that he saw "significant damage" from the quake and said U.S. officials there expect "serious loss of life," Crowley said. And Clinton's husband, former President Clinton -- now the U.N. special envoy for Haiti -- said the world body was "committed to do whatever we can to assist the people of Haiti in their relief, rebuilding and recovery efforts." The United States has been heavily involved in Haiti commercially, politically and militarily for most of the last century. U.S. intervention under Clinton restored Aristide to power in 1994 after a 1991 coup, and a U.S. jet hustled him out of the country again in 2004 following a rapidly spreading uprising against his government. The disaster is the latest to befall the country of about 9 million people, roughly the size of Maryland. It is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere and among the poorest in the world. With people stripping the trees for fuel and to clear land for agriculture, the mountainous countryside has been heavily deforested. That has led to severe erosion and left Haitians vulnerable to massive landslides when heavy rains fall. Hurricane Gordon killed more than 1,000 people in 1994, while Hurricane Georges killed more than 400 and destroyed the majority of the country's crops in 1998. And in 2004, Hurricane Jeanne killed more than 3,000 people as it passed north of Haiti, with most of the deaths in the northwestern city of Gonaives. Gonaives was hit heavily again in 2008, when four tropical systems passed through. In addition, a Haitian school collapsed in November 2008, killing more than 90 people and injuring 150 -- a disaster authorities blamed on poor construction. Eighty percent of Haiti's population lives under the poverty line, according to the CIA World Factbook.
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