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Working with communities to rebuild Haiti
Oxfam continues to work closely with Haitian communities in the aftermath of January’s devastating earthquake. Marcel Stoessel reflects on achievements so far. read more
15 March 2010
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Water arrives at Impasse Fouget
Oxfam humanitarian response specialist Kenny Rae is currently in Haiti working on the recovery effort. Here’s his latest blog from Port-au-Prince. read more
10 March 2010
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Haiti: the healing has begun
Raymond C. Offenheiser, Oxfam America’s president, recounts his impressions of the ravaged Haitian capital after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck the city leaving 230,000 people dead and more than one million others homeless. read more
9 March 2010
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Haiti: Lots of priorities, little time
It’s my first week back in Port-au-Prince after a respite in Boston. Last night was uncomfortable; not physically, as the tent is now packed away and I’m sharing a room in a down-at-heel hotel on a hill distantly overlooking the harbor. But listening to the rain, I knew that my conditions were luxurious compared to tens of thousands of families below in the city. read more
24 February 2010
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The foreign aid worker’s conundrum
Alexandros Yiannopoulos, Oxfam’s coordinator of food security and livelihoods in Haiti, is blogging for Channel 4 News Online.It is a strange life being a Humanitarian worker. read more
24 February 2010
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With rain, urgency grows for shelter and sanitation in Haiti's capital
Late last week, rain doused the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince, heightening the dread of hundreds of thousands of people there who have been living in makeshift shelters since a massive earthquake destroyed great swaths of their city in January. read more
18 February 2010
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Time to think big in Haiti
Alexandros Yiannopoulos, Oxfam’s coordinator of food security and livelihood in Haiti, is blogging for Channel 4 News Online.It is now time to think big. Three weeks in we have a plan, good people in place and now we have to try to achieve one of the largest projects that I have ever managed, if not one of the largest Oxfam projects since the Tsunami. read more
16 February 2010
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Haiti's debt – your voice has made a difference
Just over a week ago worldwide coalition of organisations, including Oxfam, launched a campaign to help Haiti’s long-term recovery from the terrible earthquake that has devastated the country.With your support we wanted persuade the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the international community to cancel Haiti's debt, which before the earthquake stood at a staggering $890 million dollars. read more
11 February 2010
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Haiti: We're all filling the cracks
At 5.10am one morning I woke to what was not someone kicking my bed, it just felt like it. I leapt up with a start. These strong aftershocks continue to get me jumping around. Afterwards I lay outside watching the bright night stars fade into the daylight, I did not want to be inside the house.By 6.45am the first members of the team are ready to drive down to the office. We currently have over 40 people who have come to work on the response, sleeping in our house and garden, so organizing transport for everyone is a huge task. read more
3 February 2010
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Helping those in need
There’s an air of frenzied activity as I enter the warehouse Oxfam shares with others in Haiti’s most notorious crime-ridden neighbourhood, Cité-Soleil.Men and women are working furiously, assembly-line fashion, putting together “family kits” – containing basic hygiene and kitchen items – to distribute to 10,000 households. The kits consist of brightly coloured plastic bowls, plates, kitchen utensils, together with cups, towels, soap, shampoo, toothbrushes and toothpaste. read more
1 February 2010
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Willing workers, few jobs
Oxfam America’s Coco McCabe is Haiti to help with the relief effort. Here’s her latest update, dated January 26.“In Haiti, it’s about hustling.”That’s Wilgens Jean-Baptiste’s summary of the job scene in the western hemisphere’s poorest nation: a constant scramble to do whatever you can to put food on the table for your family.read more
27 January 2010
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Before we had no water, no soap
It was a relief to read the sign on the wall: no dead bodies after 3.30 pm. My watch showed it was 4pm. Thankfully, when I poked my head into the morgue at the Hôpital Universitē de l’Ētat de Haiti, also known as the General Hospital, the room was empty.Outside, though, the ground was grimly sticky underfoot – a reminder of how many bodies had been taken to the public morgue for disposal since the earthquake that struck Haiti nearly two weeks ago. read more
26 January 2010
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