PORT-AU-PRINCE (April 10, 2010) – International aid agencies Oxfam, World Vision and CARE urge the Haitian government to ensure new camps are ready to receive earthquake victims before more evacuations take place. The call comes as agencies rush to prepare a new site in time for people who must be relocated due to the high risks of mudslides and other disasters in their current locations when the rainy seasons begins.
CARE International has launched an emergency operation to provide assistance to the people of Haiti, hit by a dramatic earthquake on Tuesday, January 12th. According to the latest estimates, more than 3.7 million people are in need of assistance. The Haitian government (as of 10 February) reports that 212,000 people are dead, 300,000 are injured, and 1.2 million are displaced from their homes and communities.
PORT-AU-PRINCE (March 22, 2010) – Outbreaks of water-borne disease in Haiti’s earthquake-affected zone have been largely avoided, thanks to quick intervention by the government and humanitarian agencies including CARE. But efforts to ensure sanitation and safe drinking water remain urgently important as the country faces the onset of the annual rainy season.
SANTIAGO DE CHILE (March 11, 2010) – The international humanitarian organization CARE has distributed food, hygiene items and tarps for 200 families in Chile. “In the village of Sauzal, near the city of Cauquenes, there are still cries for help”, says Axel Rottländer, CARE’s deputy emergency coordinator
CHILE (March 5, 2010) – „Six days after the earthquake struck Chile, there are still some regions that have not received aid yet“, says Axel Rottländer, deputy emergency coordinator of CARE Deutschland-Luxemburg.
Given to the extent of the damage of Haiti's infrastructure, much of what had not yet been repaired after the 2008 hurricane season, it will take months before basic services (access to water, sanitation, and health services), particularly in poorer areas of the city, are functional and accessible by the city's population.
LEOGANE, HAITI (February 17, 2010) – More than a month after the devastating earthquake that struck Haiti on January 12, FAO and the international humanitarian organisation CARE have issued a joint alert over a national food crisis.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI (February 11, 2010) – One month after the catastrophic quake that levelled most of Port-au-Prince, CARE and other aid agencies are in a race against time to get people waterproof shelter and decent sanitation before the rainy season hits at the end of March. Most people crammed into overcrowded temporary camps are huddled under bed sheets strung between poles or sticks – hardly enough to block out the sun, but useless against the torrential downpours of Haiti’s rainy season.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI (February 3, 2010) – CARE is working to prevent sexual and gender-based violence in the aftermath of Haiti’s devastating earthquake.
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