Factsheet January 2011

Highlights of InterAction
Members’ Work in Haiti
For more information, This list represents only a portion of the work being done by members of the
please contact:
InterAction alliance in Haiti. Listed in alphabetical order:
Sue Pleming
Sr. Director of American Red Cross
Public Relations Transitional homes for 150,000 people.
InterAction Clean drinking water for 317,000 people each day.
spleming@interaction.org
Medical treatment at health facilities for 217,000 people.
202.552.6561

Tawana Jacobs
CHF International
Sr. Manager for Has built over 4,500 shelters and removed over 264,000 cubic meters of
Public Relations rubble.
InterAction
tjacobs@interaction.org The Haiti Apparel Center has trained over 500 Haitians in aspects of the
202.552.6534 garment industry since its launch in August, hundreds have jobs from it, and
CHF is now training people from IDP camps.

Catholic Relief Services

Is working with Haiti’s Ministry of Health to create a post-graduate degree
program for doctors in HIV care and orthopedics, which will have a
transformative effect for years to come.
Initiated a pilot project crushing rubble that combines debris removal with job
creation. In the Delmas 62 community, residents earn income based on how
much sand and gravel they are able to produce and sell.

Education Development Center

Offering training through local partner IDJEN to 800 out-of-school youth aged
15-24 in Martissant, one of Port-au-Prince’s most vulnerable neighborhoods, in
sectors like hygiene and sanitation, construction, and childcare—all fields
selected to fill great needs in areas heavily damaged by the earthquake, and
now affected by cholera.

Food for the Poor

Accelerated its homebuilding after the earthquake and has built more than
1,500 permanent two-room homes with sanitation outside of Port-au-Prince.
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Habitat for Humanity
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Habitat and its partners have built more than 200 latrines, distributed 750
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household hygiene kits and held hygiene promotion classes to stem the deadly
202.667.8227 spread of cholera.
 More than 900 families have received transitional
or upgradable shelters by December 2010, whit a
total of 2,000 scheduled to be completed by the
end of January 2011.
More than 500 Haitians have been trained in
earthquake-resistant construction techniques.
International Rescue Committee
Built 500 latrines, showers and safe water points
for displaced people and distributed hygiene and
household supplies. IRC volunteers are also
educating residents in 30 camps on good health
and disease-prevention practices. Together,
these efforts have reached more than 130,000
people.
Ran health clinics in camps in two hard-hit areas
of Port-au-Prince, conducting 24,000
consultations, administering 8,500 vaccinations
and vitamin A doses, performing over 700 malaria
tests, monitoring over 3,400 children for
malnutrition and delivering prenatal care to over
750 women.
Mercy Corps
Provided more than 830,000 people with
emergency food, clean water, household
necessities and shelter materials, as well as post-
disaster trauma support.
Created temporary jobs to provide wages to
support 172,000 people and improve basic
infrastructure for 45 communities.
Oxfam
Provided clean drinking water and sanitation
facilities to approximately 400,000 displaced
people.
Ensuring that 500,000 people involved in Oxfam’s
earthquake response program also receive
cholera prevention activities. In addition, Oxfam
has opened a wider program to an additional
700,000 people to prevent the spread of the
disease.
Save the Children
Provided lifesaving nutrition support through both
prevention and treatment of acute malnutrition to
more than 230,600 women and children.
Of the 4,630 children registered as separated
from their families, more than 1,135 children have
been reunited with their immediate or extended
families through the Family Tracing Network,
which Save the Children leads.
United Methodist Committee on Relief
(UMCOR)
A water distribution hub provided 65,000 people
daily with clean drinking water. Working through
local nongovernmental organizations, UMCOR
partner GlobalMedic also distributed 110,000
sachets of PUR water purifiers and 110,000 oral
rehydration sachets.
Worked with the Methodist Church of Haiti and
United Methodist Volunteers in Mission to
establish an arrangement whereby U.S.
volunteers could serve in Haiti without displacing
Haitian workers in need of a recovery job.
World Vision
70,938 children in 454 schools benefited from
school feeding programs between August and
October.
1,988 people participated in cash-for-training
programs, learning skills such as gardening
techniques, masonry and carpentry.

Physicians for Peace

Direct investment of $25,000 was made in our
Haitian Amputee Coalition work at Albert
Schweitzer Hospital.
Fifteen Physicians for Peace volunteer physical
therapists volunteered a total of 200 days,
completed over 1,300 patient visits, and helped
635 amputee patients learn to “walk free” with
new prosthetic limbs.