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HAITI HEALTH CLUSTER BULLETIN #14 – PAGE 4 - 1/14/11

World Vision is operating 22 ORPs, and one CTU. Five more CTUs and one CTC are being established, while three ORPs are closing. World Vision continues to collect information on needs according to department, municipality, municipal section, city and village. World Vision is also supporting 12 hospitals in Port-au-Prince, the Central Plateau and Gonaive, through the provision of supplies, such as medicines, and the training of staff on cholera prevention.

HAITI HEALTH CLUSTER BULLETIN #14 – PAGE 9 - 1/14/11:

Last week, World Vision trained 70 Health Promoters in cholera prevention and treatment. They also trained 1,475 individuals in proper sanitation and hygiene as a cholera prevention tactic.

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FROM RELIEF WEB:

Haiti: World Vision prepares for potential severe weather admidst ongoing cholera, quake response work

Source: World Vision
Date: 30 Oct 2010

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

World Vision prepares for potential severe weather amidst ongoing cholera, quake response work

· Forecasters predict Tropical Storm Tomas may grow into a hurricane over the weekend

· Aid agency says severe weather, cholera outbreak and ongoing quake response "testing Haiti's limits"

PORT-AU-PRINCE, 29 October 2010 – As forecasters watch Tropical Storm Tomas in the Caribbean, World Vision's relief team is preparing for the possibility of severe weather this weekend in Haiti.

"Our rapid response team is mobilizing right now to do everything it can in the next 24 to 48 hours to help mitigate the effects of this storm," said Sabrina Pourmand-Nolen, World Vision's emergency program director in Haiti. "First the earthquake, then the cholera outbreak, and now the possibility of severe weather here; all of it is testing the limits of Haiti."

The Christian relief agency is carrying out a number of activities in the next several days to help prepare the children and families in its camps in Port-au-Prince for the storm. Activities include: · Distributing hurricane preparedness messages (identify a safe place, listen for radio updates, have phones charged, keep important documents in plastic bags, stock essential items if possible, and secure your tents) in both French and Creole.

· Temporarily dismantling the Child Friendly Spaces tents.

· Ensuring all water tanks are full and latrines are desludged and secured.

· Mobilizing a post-storm rapid assessment team.

· Securing contents of the health tents but continue to keep open (as much as possible) to provide preventative measures for cholera.

In addition, World Vision is working with other agencies, including the American Refugee Committee and Oxfam at Corail, to protect the families in those camps, including establishing the warehouse at Corail as an emergency shelter.

"The effect of these natural disasters and the outbreak highlight the ongoing vulnerability here," said Pourmand-Nolen. "It is a reminder to the international community that one of the most critical things that must happen for Haiti to recover from the multiple tragedies this year is a commitment to build its infrastructure. Access to clean water, sanitation facilities, health care and education will create a stronger Haiti in the future."

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4/10
http://www.worldvision.org/content.nsf/learn/haiti-update-more-work?Open&lpos=ctr_txt_ReadMoreMoreWork

HAITI EARTHQUAKE 3 MONTH UPDATE

Protecting children
Providing shelter
Renewing opportunity
Restoring health

Preventing illness -
World Vision will continue working to improve the sanitary conditions in displacement camps throughout Port-au-Prince. We’ll partner with displaced communities to clear the camps of garbage, dig garbage pits, lay proper drainage systems, and more.

Our priority is to help families stay healthy now and during the coming rainy season.

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FROM THE WEBSITE:

Haiti: Concern for children grows
16 Jan 2010 - By World Vision staff

World Vision relief workers, in a race against time to save lives in Haiti, got a boost as relief goods began arriving in Haiti’s quake-ravaged capital city yesterday. Meanwhile, World Vision staff's concern for Haiti’s children continues to grow as they find more and more children separated from their parents.

Broken infrastructure a key challenge

Difficulties with broken infrastructure, limited airport capacity and concerns about potential security threats in Haiti slowed the delivery of humanitarian supplies to hard-hit areas in the first days after the quake. Even ambulances are in short supply, reported World Vision staff.

“The basics are the hardest,” said Dave Toycen, president of World Vision Canada. “There was a mile-long line for gasoline. It's a logistical maze out here.”

The security situation could change rapidly if shortages of food, water and other basic supplies reach a critical level, the agency warned.

With thousands in Port-au-Prince left homeless by destroyed or badly damaged houses, many are sleeping in the streets or at spontaneous settlements in public parks and other spaces. World Vision staff have seen people living in very unsanitary and hazardous conditions.

Supplies running low; resupply begins

World Vision, which has worked in Haiti more than 30 years, today reached an additional 1,000 families with relief items already stored in the country, but many urgent items such as clean water, medical supplies and emergency shelter resources were running low.

Toycen reported via Twitter: “Distributions are in full force - trying to reach as many people as possible. Still a steep curve to reach all those affected.”

World Vision’s supply chain is ramping up to bring in badly needed supplies. The first of a series of flights bringing emergency supplies for World Vision relief efforts in Haiti touched down in Port-au-Prince on Friday evening.

A Hercules C130 brought items such as hygiene kits, blankets, water containers, and shelter materials from World Vision’s warehouse in Denver. The aid group is planning more flights this weekend from Panama City, Toronto, and an additional flight from Denver, bringing more supplies, including medicines, tents, and shovels to remove debris.

World Vision staff are finding alternatives to the congested Port-au-Prince airport, including bringing supplies overland from airports and ports in the Dominican Republic, where the agency has a sizable presence.
Provide first aid

World Vision teams have distributed first-aid supplies to more than ten hospitals in the Port-au-Prince area. “Some volunteer teachers have been performing first aid for the past day or two to those who have been injured,” reported Toycen. However, he fears many will die of their injuries if not tended to soon. “We are racing against the clock.”

Many of the injured have started to develop gangrene because they did not receive timely and adequate medical care. Family members of patients are taking measures into their own hands since the hospital system is completely overwhelmed and suffering serious structural damages; one World Vision volunteer saw an amputation performed in the hallways of the general hospital using unhygienic tools. World Vision volunteers also have seen a severed foot become an amputated leg because the wounds were not sterilised.

Amputation tools and supplies to sterilise wounds are in short supply; World Vision anticipates a need for significant amounts of crutches and braces for earthquake amputees.

Children alone and at risk

World Vision has started to identify children who have become separated from their parents. The organisation has expressed concern about the number of children who are leaving Port-au-Prince and walking into towns outside the city to find help. World Vision’s Dominican Republic staff in the border town of Jimani are helping provide food, water, and medical care to hundreds of unaccompanied children who fled Port-au-Prince for the border, either alone or who became separated from parents along the way.

There were a significant number of children in orphanages prior to the disaster, and World Vision staff acknowledge that the earthquake certainly has created more orphans. Because the quake struck during school hours, there are hundreds of children who simply have not found their parents.

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WASH CLUSTER CONTACTS (Sanitation/Hygiene):

Andrew Jalanski andrew.jalanski @worldvision.com.au

Elvire Douglas - elvire_douglas @wvi.org 011-509-3448-4158

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SHELTER CLUSTER:

David_Kehoe @wvi.org (works dist.)

Lindsay Gladding Program Officer linsay-gladding@worldvision.ca
011-509-3452- 4843

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CCCM (Camp) Cluster:

Lindsay Gladding 011-509-3452-4843

Liz Satow liz_satow @wvi.org
(+41) 797440668

Rod Imer rod_imer @wvi.org (+41)788679673

Martha Gomez Andrade martagomezdeandrade @gmail.com,

Kris Sullens kristin_sullens @wvi.org 34524843

Enos Wambua enos_wambua @wvi.org

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EDUCATION CLUSTER CONTACTS:

World Vision - Patricia Hartasanchez - phartasa @worldvision.org - 34524858/51

World Vision International - Dom Keyzer - dominic.keyzer @worldvision.com.au - 39338972

World Vision - Kela Vales - vales_kela @wvi.org - (509) 22570949/0969
(509) 510 9498 / (509) 3465 8434