B.C.C.Management has committed itself in response of the terrible aftermath of the quake that hit Haiti to help and donate.
The donation was given to the Canadian Red Cross.
Over $2 billion dollars have been raised in the last month for Haiti relief. The work will take years and organizations in Haiti continue to need funding. If you haven’t contributed in a few weeks, please consider making another donation through one of the groups below.
Support the Canadian Red Cross in Haiti earthquake relief efforts. Your support would allow them to send urgent needed aid, support and most importantly hope to Haiti.
Your generosity will allow the Red Cross to:
• Send over 2,600 metric tons of relief items to Haiti
• Distribute 1 million liters of water to 200,000 people each day.
• Provide medical care to over 9,600 people so far, including urgently needed psychosocial support.
• Provide relief items such as blankets, kitchen tools, tarps, jerry cans and hygiene items to over 122,000 people.
A look to the future
the earthquake has affected approximately 3 million people. Your support will allow the Red Cross to provide urgent needed help, and will ensure that the Canadian Red Cross is there for the people of Haiti in the challenging months and years ahead. An in-depth analysis of the long-term needs of Haiti is currently being conducted by the Red Cross to determine how to rebuild the nation and make it stronger, healthier and more resilient.
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A month after the tragedy Haiti from tragedy to opportunity
THE CANADIAN RED CROSS RESPONSE
When the earthquake struck on January 12, the Canadian Red Cross already had workers on the ground in Port-au-Prince. Miriam Castaneda, the CRC’s Haiti program manager, immediately began coordinating and providing relief to those in need, and opened the CRC’s Port-au-Prince office to more than 200 survivors.
Here are some other highlights of Canadian Red Cross activities in Haiti:
• 38 Canadian delegates have been deployed in Haiti, working in health, water and sanitation, shelter, assessment and communications.
• A joint Canadian/Norwegian field hospital (along with CRC delegates) was deployed within days of the quake and is set up adjacent to the University Hospital in Port-au-Prince. It can provide essential surgical and medical care for up to 300 people a day, with a 70-bed ward; customized modules for surgery, first aid and triage; a community health unit; and a psychosocial support unit. This ERU was funded in part by the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA).
• More than $400,000 worth of Canadian Red Cross pre-positioned stock from Panama has been deployed to Haiti, including tents, blankets, buckets, jerry cans, tarps and mosquito nets.
• At a Red Cross Red Crescent summit held in Montreal, it was announced that Canadian Marcel Fortier will lead the IFRC’s Haitian delegation. Fortier has nearly 30 years of experience with the Red Cross Red Crescent, working in 10 countries in the areas of disaster response, program development and resource mobilization.
THE COMING MONTHS
Over the past month, the focus in Haiti has been on emergency relief—medical care, clean water and the distribution of basic relief items.
But another crisis looms: Haiti is about to enter the rainy season, which brings with it strong winds and up to five centimeters of rain each day. And it’s followed by the Caribbean hurricane season. That makes providing waterproof shelter the top priority. At the request of the UN humanitarian relief coordinator for Haiti, the IFRC is spearheading the effort to provide shelter to those who need it. To date, Red Cross Red Crescent workers have handed out shelter materials to some 95,000 people, including tarps, tools and nearly 1,000 tents. But there are still 1.2 million Haitians in need of housing—and very little land on which to settle them.
The spread of disease is also a growing concern, with solid waste piling up in camps, and hundreds of thousands of people living without adequate shelter, food or water. The Red Cross Red Crescent movement is delivering up to 1.3 million liters of clean water each day and digging latrines at 12 camps. But it’s still not enough.
GOING FORWARD
Haiti faces a long and difficult road ahead. It was already the poorest country in the Western hemisphere. Now, hundreds of thousands are left without homes or livelihoods. The Red Cross Red Crescent movement is committed to helping Haiti throughout its recovery, reconstruction and development phases, building a stronger, healthier and more resilient community. This includes building back the operational capacity of the Haitian Red Cross; the reconstruction of buildings, livelihoods and communities; and wide-scale investment in disaster risk reduction.
To see photos of your support in action, please visit the Canadian Red Cross Flickr page at
http://www.flickr.com/photos/canadian_redcross/
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