Help at Risk Haitian Families Recover and Rebuild
You can help in the re-building process of Haiti in 30 communities that have been identified in and round Port-au-Prince where Project Concern can make the most impact with an integrated package of services. Re-building interventions include: meeting immediate sanitation needs through temporary latrines while working with communities to design and build community based and low-cost, permanent solutions to waste disposal; implementing mobile medical clinics in target communities in partnership with local NGOs and clinical providers; designing and building safe housing alternatives that allow families to stay close to home; and establishing “safe spaces” that provide supervised activities for children as well as counseling, nutrition and health monitoring, which also allow parents to seek out job opportunities.
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The Need
The earthquake that struck Port-au-Prince, Haiti on January 12, 2010 has affected an estimated 3 million people, killed an estimated 200,000 and ranks among the worst natural disasters in recent history. According to the US Department of State, an estimated 1.2 million people were made homeless or were otherwise displaced as a result of the earthquake. In addition, an estimated 600 temporary camps – of various sizes and quality of facilities - have been established throughout the Port-au-Prince area and an additional 400,000 people have out-migrated to surrounding areas, placing a tremendous strain on the infrastructure of these outlying communities.
With the onset of the rainy season in Haiti, communities affected by the earthquake and those that received a large influx of displaced people from Port-au-Prince, are in need of supplies and interventions that include: temporary shelters; neighborhood clean-up kits; neighborhood safe spaces for women and children; water and sanitation systems; access to healthcare services and education services for children, and counseling. In addition, "cash-for-work" activities and other economic empowerment interventions are needed in order to provide income for families to provide for their basic needs and to engage individuals in the clean-up and rebuilding of their own communities.
About Project Concern International
Partner since April, 2010
Motivated by our concern for the world’s most vulnerable children, families and communities, Project Concern International’s (PCI) mission is to prevent disease, improve community health and promote sustainable development. We envision a world where abundant resources are shared, communities are able to provide for the health and well being of their members, and children and families can achieve lives of hope, good health and self-sufficiency. PCI is a non-governmental, non-profit, international public health and humanitarian assistance organization that has promoted community health and development worldwide since 1961.
PCI’s approach is integrated, holistic and person centered. Rather than targeting activities to respond to one or two specific issues within a community, PCI's programs work to provide communities with sustained and integrated interventions, which deliver a comprehensive range of services and skills that help them to address their long term health and development needs in a way that empowers them as agents of their own advancement. Currently operating in 16 countries in Africa, Asia and the Americas, PCI reached over 5.5 million people in 2009 with lifesaving programs.