Haiti: How your money is helping

Your generous donations are providing a lifeline for hundreds of thousands of people following a devastating earthquake in Haiti.

Up to 200,000 people have been killed and as many as 3 million have lost their homes.

Click here to make a donation to our Haiti Earthquake Appeal.

SCIAF is working with Caritas Internationalis – a global network of Catholic aid agencies – to get help to the survivors.

In the immediate aftermath - despite having lost loved ones and seen their homes reduced to rubble - our partner, Caritas Haiti, began handing out tents and supplies of food which they already had in stock.

The following day, an international Caritas emergency response team made its way to Haiti to help assess the situation and decide how best to support the relief operation. Since then, supplies have been arriving from Caritas partners around the world. Teams of staff and volunteers are distributing aid through local parishes and at temporary camps for the homeless.

Today, over a hundred thousand people living in 20 small and one major makeshift camp are receiving our help.

Your money is providing:

• food packages – which include rice, beans, sardines, milk, juice and cooking oil
• clean, safe water
• tents, blankets and tarpaulins
• water containers and purification tablets
• cooking equipment
• hygiene kits
• first aid, medical supplies and fuel

Treating people who have been injured is a major priority. Within the first two days of the earthquake, two operating theatres in one of the main hospitals – which was 70% destroyed – had been repaired, equipped with medical supplies and fuel, and were working round the clock.

Six mobile clinics are caring for thousands of injured at sites across the city and hand washing stations have been set up to improve sanitation at hospitals and camps.

A ship carrying 15,000 tonnes of food, shelter and other essentials berthed at Port-au-Prince on 2nd February and thousands more tents, blankets, tarpaulins, water tanks and jerry cans will be arriving in the next few days.

Caritas has also started a ‘cash-for-work’ programme, employing local people to help clear debris from the streets and dig latrines at temporary camps.

In the coming months, much more will need to be done to help communities in Haiti rebuild and recover. With your support, we will be there to respond.

Click here to make a donation to SCAF’s Haiti Earthquake Appeal.