The Rescue After Haiti’S Earthquake

The rescue after Haiti’s earthquake

Introduction

The world has gone through many disasters, but on January 12, 2010, a huge 7.0 earthquake hit Haiti about 10 miles southwest of the capital, port port, killing 300.000 people and leaving 2.3 million homeless with water or food. The damage was huge and painful. The bodies were still being taken from the rubble, even when the search and rescue teams worked quickly to find someone who still lived, said Gillian Dunn, an emergency response address of the International Rescue Committee. 

The survivors of the earthquake gathered in parks and on the sides of the roads, established improvised tents using sheets and ropes. The International Rescue Committee immediately responded to clean and sanitation water, a critic for disease prevention.

Developing

Tens of thousands of children lost their parents to the earthquake. Many were separated from relatives in the chaos that followed. The International Rescue Committee began to work to gather children with their families, helping the Haitian government and a network of international and local organizations to find, identify and register separate children. Thousands of Haitian children were homeless, traumatized, lost and distressed, said Rebecca Chandler, a former child protection expert with the response team in Haiti. 

To ensure that separate children were protected from exploitation and abuse, the rescue team established safe spaces with a variety of healing, recreation and learning programs.

From the disaster, the International Rescue Committee gathered more than 1. 000 children in Haiti with their biological families, including 156 who worked in domestic servitude. The team also worked with families and orphanages to combat traffic through public education campaigns.

With thousands of separate families living in crowded and little hygienic places, it was not a surprise when a serious spring of anger infected thousands of people. The International Rescue team quickly launched prevention campaigns on 30 sites in Port Príncipe, and distributed soap, cleaning supplies, containers, chlorine and water purification pills for drinking water. Also, the International Rescue Committee rehabilitated water and sanitation systems in health clinics and youth centers and built latrines, showers and drinking water points in the capital, the city of Leogane and the surrounding areas.

People literally lived in the midst of their own waste and there were danger of epidemics.

There were trained volunteers with the international team who helped and educated people about good health and disease prevention practices such as handwashing and hygienic food preparation.

conclusion

In 2015, the International Rescue Committee was one of the few remaining aid agencies that provided sanitation and hygiene services to save lives from thousands of people who continued to live in camps full of people near Port -auto work in the reconstruction of infrastructure in port prince and leogane through a work money program.