Haiti: Relief and Recovery

Immediately after a devastating earthquake struck Haiti on 12 January, the international community launched relief efforts. Hundreds of organizations are now helping to save lives and rebuild the country while millions of people around the world have donated money and supplies. This site highlights these efforts, pulling in articles and media from across the web. More about this project »

Helping those in need

1 February 2010

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.

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