Haiti Earthquake

Response

• HTI101 | HAITI EARTHQUAKE | FEBRUARY 19, 2010Haiti: Crisis and post-crisis response to Earthquake

  APPEAL | OPEN
  The ACT Alliance, working with numerous local organisations, is assisting some of the most vulnerable among the victims of the earthquake in Port-au-Prince (including Bel Air and Cite Soleil), Gressier and in Jacmel and Bainet in the south.

• HTI101 | HAITI EARTHQUAKE | JANUARY 23, 2010Haiti: Response to Earthquake

  PRELIMINARY APPEAL | OPEN
  ACT members and their partners have started a response within days and make all efforts to coordinate with all concerned. Water, food and shelter are the first basic needs attended to.

• 02/2010 | HAITI EARTHQUAKE | JANUARY 14, 2010Haiti: Earthquake of magnitude 7.0 hits the Capital City of Haiti and Surroundings

  ACT members are assessing the situation and preparing to respond.

News

• SITUATION REPORT: APRIL 6, 2010Haiti SitRep (12)

  ACT members continue their assistance to earthquake victims.

• SITUATION REPORT: MARCH 29, 2010Haiti SitRep (11)

  ACT members continue their support to Earthquake victims.

• SITUATION REPORT: MARCH 5, 2010Haiti SitRep (9)

  The Government and humanitarian actors are coordinating to determine the scale of humanitarian needs in Nippes and Sud departments following floods on 27 February.

• NEWS STORY: MARCH 5, 2010John Nduna: ACT remains in Haiti

  “ACT Alliance has been in Haiti for many years and will remain in Haiti as long as we are needed.."

• NEWS STORY: MARCH 5, 2010“Listen to the women”

  The issue of Women’s Day in Haiti is to take care of family members.

• NEWS STORY: MARCH 2, 2010Arts Help Haitian Children Heal

  The capoeira training is part of a comprehensive psychosocial program by Viva Rio, a partner organization of ACT Alliance member Norwegian Church Aid.

• SITUATION REPORT: FEBRUARY 24, 2010Haiti SitRep (8):

  ACT members continue providing relief assistance to the affected population.

• NEWS STORY: FEBRUARY 24, 2010Haiti: Water to the Homeless

  Pierrette Joseph Wesner and Saint Philippe Kesly start their day before the sun comes up. They have an important job to do. They are water truck drivers. Lots of people depend on them.

• NEWS STORY: FEBRUARY 19, 2010Heavy Rains Underscore Shelter Needs in Haiti

  Wednesday night, Haiti’s capital experienced its heaviest rainfall since the earthquake, a soaking downpour that lasted for several hours.

• SITUATION REPORT: FEBRUARY 17, 2010Haiti SitRep (7)

  ACT members continue providing assistance to affected families.

• NEWS STORY: FEBRUARY 17, 2010Indonesian Children Help Haiti

  Last year, two major earthquakes hit Indonesia. When a new horrendous quake hit Haiti last month, Indonesians followed the breaking news with great interest and compassion.

• NEWS STORY: FEBRUARY 15, 2010Prayers and Hymns in Haiti

  One month of suffering since the earthquake in Haiti.

• NEWS STORY: FEBRUARY 12, 2010Haiti: One Month After the Earthquake: Where to Live

  Just outside of Port-au-Prince, community leader Altenor Ronald expressed a mixture of frustration, anger and disorientation as he tried to coordinate the relocation of the displaced into a roadside displacement site.

• NEWS STORY: FEBRUARY 11, 2010Haiti: Angelina Jolie visits ACT Alliance

  American actor Angelina Jolie visited yesterday ACT Alliance’s projects in the hard hit area of Jacmel.

• NEWS STORY: FEBRUARY 11, 2010One Month in Haiti, ACT Helps 150 000 Lives

  Since the earthquake hit parts of Haiti January 12, the ACT Alliance has assisted more than 150,000 people.

• SITUATION REPORT: FEBRUARY 10, 2010Haiti SitRep (6)

  ACT members continue providing assistance covering Protection/psychosocial, recovery, camps, agriculture, health, education, shelter and DRR.

• NEWS STORY: FEBRUARY 9, 2010Haiti’s many challenges reveal the difficulties of humanitarian work

  Humanitarian practice, even during relatively small emergencies, is hard and imperfect work – a fact often not fully understood or appreciated by donors and even non-emergency staff of humanitarian groups.

• FEATURE STORY: FEBRUARY 5, 2010Haiti: Born in the rubble

  McAnley was born twelve days after the Haiti earth quake where his father was killed.

• FEATURE STORY: FEBRUARY 4, 2010Haiti: ACT campaigns: Pop music, auctions an finance bonus for Haiti

  ACT member ask Wall Street finance executives to donate ten percent of their bonuses for Haiti.

• SITUATION REPORT: FEBRUARY 4, 2010Haiti SitRep (5)

  ACT members continue providing assistance covering Protection/psychosocial, recovery, camps, agriculture, health, education, shelter and DRR.

• NEWS STORY: FEBRUARY 1, 2010Haiti: The Battle for Food

  At an ACT Alliance distribution of food and goods, workers set about allocating relief to the most vulnerable. Pregnant women and families with young children come first. Then things go horribly wrong.

• NEWS STORY: JANUARY 29, 2010Capoeria, The Healing Dance of Haiti

  A boy stretches in a backyard of Bel Air in Port-au-Prince. He is dancing capoeira, a Brazilian martial art that has been turned into therapy for children affected by the earthquake.

• NEWS STORY: JANUARY 28, 2010What is ACT Alliance doing in Haiti?

  Slowly the food is moving, the clean water is running. Haitians have shelter.

• SITUATION REPORT: JANUARY 27, 2010Haiti SitRep (4)

  Assistance will be short, medium and longer term, including: shelter, watsan, hygiene and non food items.

• NEWS STORY: JANUARY 26, 2010Caring for Haiti's Kids

  Traumatized, ill and suffering loss of limbs, hundreds of children need round-the-clock care.

• NEWS STORY: JANUARY 25, 2010Haiti Sitrep (3)

  The situation continues to be desperate for the people affected by the earthquake in Haiti.

• NEWS STORY: JANUARY 25, 2010Haiti: Slowly, a return to daily life

  Slowly food and water have started moving in Haiti.

• NEWS STORY: JANUARY 22, 2010Haiti: Clean Water from Filthy

  The ACT Alliance has brought in specialist water and sanitation facilities, desperately needed in earthquake-hit Haiti.

• NEWS STORY: JANUARY 21, 2010Haiti: ACT Distributions Continue in Remote Areas

  Medical teams, experts and tonnes of food, household items and tarpaulins from ACT Alliance members and partners continue to reach Haitians made homeless.

• SITUATION REPORT: JANUARY 21, 2010Sitrep - Haiti (2)

  A strong 6.1-magnitude aftershock hit the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince yesterday, shaking residents who survived the devastating January 12 earthquake.

• NEWS STORY: JANUARY 20, 2010

  Haiti, now in ruins after the earthquake, is receiving millions of dollars in emergency aid, but has at the same time a huge debt to the same international community.

• NEWS STORY: JANUARY 20, 2010ACT photographer Paul Jeffrey in Haiti: “They are used to struggle, so life goes on”

  In the wake of Haiti's devastating earthquake, Port-au-Prince is filled with rubble and corpses. Yet amid the destruction and despair, the hope and strength of the Haitian people is undeniable.

• SITUATION REPORT: JANUARY 19, 2010SitRep - Haiti (1)

  ACT members are preparing a preliminary appeal that will enable delivery of immediate lifesaving assistance with non-food items, psychosocial support, shelter/site planning, emergency health and water and sanitation.

• NEWS STORY: JANUARY 18, 2010'As much assistance to Haiti as possible' - ACT coordinator

  The incoming ACT Alliance coordinator for Haiti has outlined priorities for the huge relief operation she is about to lead.

• NEWS STORY: JANUARY 18, 2010ACT Alliance Support Reaching Haiti

  In the chaos of aid distribution, ACT Alliance members are managing to get food, temporary shelter, water cleaning materials and expertise to the Haitian capital.

• NEWS STORY: JANUARY 15, 2010ACT in Haiti: Healing the Traumatised

  Thousands of people in Port-au-Prince - injured, hungry and desperate - have spent days outdoor in the demolished capital of Haiti without food or shelter.

• NEWS STORY: JANUARY 14, 2010Haiti: Port-au-Prince “looks like a war zone”

  Between 60 and 80 percent of the houses in Port-au-Prince were brought down or are uninhabitable by Tuesday’s 7.0 magnitude earthquake.

• NEWS STORY: JANUARY 13, 2010ACT Responding to Haiti Earthquake

  Hundreds, maybe thousands, of people were buried alive when a major earthquake struck Port-au-Prince, the capital of impoverished Haiti on Tuesday.

• NEWS STORY: JANUARY 13, 2010Haiti: ACT Staff Missing

  ACT Alliance staff members in Haiti are unaccounted for, others are scrambling to find loved ones, and still others are in shock after surviving building collapses.