Christian Aid continues to respond to the devastating earthquake in Haiti and money raised from its emergency appeal is helping our partners deliver aid to vulnerable communities.
It’s a month since the earthquake hit, and our partners, while still addressing the immediate needs of those affected, are starting to look towards long-term rebuilding and rehabilitation work.
Watch our latest video clip of aid reaching people in need.
How we are responding
Christian Aid and its partners are helping almost 150,000 people in nine communities. They are distributing:
- food parcels and daily meals
- plastic sheeting
- hygiene kits and baby kits
- blankets
- cash
- medical supplies
- clothes.
Our partners' expertise and indepth knowledge of the communities where they work has allowed us to organise distributions that target those in most need.
We are targeting areas that are getting little help from other agencies and distributions are well underway.
Our partners in the Dominican Republic are also involved in the response as members of the Help Haiti coalition. This is a group of 23 agencies that have come together to channel aid overland to Haiti.
A disaster of this scale poses exceptional challenges for aid agencies, and we are drawing on lessons learned from our tsunami response.
Find out how our partners are responding
Video: local communities help run food distributions
Haiti photo gallery: aid is getting through
Haiti appeal - please give now
Your donations are being used to feed and provide basic relief items to those who lost everything. But in the months ahead, they will also help with longer term development, which includes:
school fees for children
repairing and rebuilding of homes
provision of seeds and tools ahead of the planting season
distribution of livestock
provision of relief items and shelter for those who fled into the rural areas.
Nick Guttmann, head of Christian Aid's humanitarian division, talks about rebuilding and reconstructing Haiti in Where does Haiti go from here?
Drop Haiti's debt
Christian Aid is also lobbying for long-term support for Haiti.
We handed a petition of 15,000 signatures to the UK Treasury on 4 February, and within two days the G7 had pledged its backing for our calls to cancel Haiti's estimated $890m international debts. Find out more
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