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Keeping cholera in check in Haiti

23/12/2011 Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Haiti, Latin America by Caritas Communications

“When the cholera epidemic broke out in October 2010, we weren’t prepared for it. We were unfamiliar with this disease, and during the first few weeks a large number of sick people came in to see us. Things weren’t easy.” Josèphe Gerda is the head of a small healthcare centre in the remote village of ...

Schools reopen in Haiti after 2010 Earthquake

23/12/2011 Aid Success Story, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in Haiti, Haiti, Latin America by Caritas Communications

“When the school collapsed, what was essential was finding the children. The rest was just material,” said Sr. Josette Drouinaud of the Mère Delia Institute for primary and secondary school girls in the bustling Delmas neighbourhood of the Port-au-Prince. When the earthquake of 12 January struck Haiti, the primary school crumbled. The students had finished ...

Quenching the rice fields’ thirst in Haiti

23/12/2011 Agriculture, Aid Success Story, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in Haiti, Food, Haiti, Latin America by Caritas Communications

Fednor, a farmer, is preparing what will soon be the main source of food for his family – a rice field. In Joque, in the province of Les Cayes, rice growing is the most common agricultural activity. The rice fields extend along each side of the road and provide a living for the majority of ...

Haiti’s elderly get their zest back

15/11/2011 Aid Success Story, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in Haiti, Français, Haiti, Latin America by Caritas Communications

Available in French and Spanish By Ryan Worms “Just a little while ago, it was very hard for me to find something to eat. I didn’t feel strong, I didn’t know what to do and had no one to help me. Now I’ve got my energy back,” said sixty-year-old Olivia Jean Louis. She is part ...

New homes for Haitians

11/11/2011 Aid Success Story, Conflicts and Disasters, Disaster Preparedness, Ecuador, Emergencies, Emergencies in Haiti, Haiti, Latin America by Caritas Communications

Almost two years on from the earthquake of 12 January 2010, more than 600,000 people are still displaced in camps. They live in extremely precarious conditions and their health security is at risk.

Healthcare becomes accessible in Trianon, Haiti

30/10/2011 Conflicts and Disasters, Ecuador, Emergencies, Emergencies in Haiti, Haiti, Latin America by Caritas Communications

On this Saturday 5 November the people of Trianon are celebrating. Today the Caritas Hinche – Trianon health centre is being inaugurated, a major event for this small community from the Central Plateau region in Haiti.

Long-term solutions in Haiti

7/07/2011 Aid Success Story, Conflicts and Disasters, Disaster Preparedness, Emergencies, Emergencies in Haiti, Haiti, Latin America by Caritas Communications

There is a long-term answer to alleviating poverty: helping people build up resilient livelihoods. Secours Catholique, the French national Caritas, worked with local people to improve their food production, supporting the most vulnerable with food rations so they did not fall back on eating seed stocks. Through food-for-work programmes in Les Cayes in southern Haiti, ...

Cholera in Haiti’s camps

7/07/2011 Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in Haiti, Haiti, Latin America by Caritas Communications

Caritas’s humanitarian experience had helped it recognise that crowded camps, with limited clean water and poor sanitation, were the perfect combination for another brewing disaster: a cholera outbreak. Caritas had begun distributing soap and building stand pipes and latrines as soon as possible after the earthquake. “For some people, it is the first time they ...

A widow’s mite in Haiti’s earthquake

7/07/2011 Aid Success Story, Conflicts and Disasters, Dominican Republic, Emergencies, Emergencies in Haiti, Haiti, Latin America by Caritas Communications

The fragility of Haiti, the poorest country in the Western hemisphere, was all too clear. The earth convulsed and down tumbled the weak homes, schools and hospitals. More than 230,000 people were killed by the earthquake and over three million affected, in the slum-plagued capital, Port-au-Prince, nearby towns like Jacmel and Léogâne and elsewhere. The ...

Bringing business back to Haiti

7/07/2011 Aid Success Story, Conflicts and Disasters, Emergencies, Emergencies in Haiti, Haiti, Latin America by Caritas Communications

Other Caritas programmes in Haiti are tackling the longer-term problem of the poverty trap while at the same time helping people get back on their feet after the tragedy of January 2010. Caritas Slovakia noticed that local businesswomen were struggling to keep their enterprises afloat after the earthquake. So many Haitians were hard up they ...