Case Study LEDC Earthquake - Haiti - Responses
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- Created on: 04-05-17 11:34
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- LEDC Earthquake - Haiti Responses
- $100 million in aid given by the USA & $330 million by the EU
- 810,000 people placed in Aid camps
- 115,000 tents & 1 million tarpaulin shelters provided
- Healthcare supplies provided to limit disease
- Lack of immediate aid through poor planning, management & access meant people had to try and rescue each other
- 4.3 million people provided with food rations in the weeks following the earthquake.
- 98% of the rubble on the roads hadn't been cleared restricting aid access
- 1 million people still without houses after 1 year so still had to live in aid camps
- Support for people with lobs which equates to nearly 70% of the population, through cash/food for work projects.
- Temporary schools created and new teachers trained
- Water & sanitation eventually supplied for 1.7 million people
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