Haiti
- Created by: Polly
- Created on: 23-04-15 19:51
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- Haiti earthquake
- Causes
- Conservative plate boundary
- Effects
- Long term
- 20% of people lost their jobs
- Industry was seriously affected
- Quick spread of disease, especially cholera
- It was difficult to reach the area
- People had to live either in shanty towns or on the streets
- Aid
- 1 million people in camps a year later
- Support for people without jobs
- Water and sanitation provided
- Short term
- 300,000 people were killed
- Over 1 million people made homeless
- Transport and communication links were damaged and destroyed
- Over 50 hospitals and 1000 schools were destroyed
- The main prison was destroyed and 4,000 inmates escaped
- Aid
- 800,000 people in aid camps
- $450million international aid donated
- Lack of immediate aid
- 4.5million people provided with food rations
- Long term
- Causes
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