HAITI

Facts & Figures - One Year After —

The long road from relief to recovery

For thirty five seconds one year ago, time in Haiti was at a sudden standstill. Thirty five seconds of a late afternoon in January also suddenly became the defining moment; if ever so short, for countless generations of children in Haiti.

Just over 1 million people remain displaced —380,000 of them children—as a result of the January earthquake, living in more than 1,199 displacement sites. But with the generosity of millions of people all over the world UNICEF has been able to rescue, help and support many women and children in the last 12 months. Children’s lives have been saved, children have been immunized and reunited with their families, and are attending school for the first time.

UNICEF is supporting a network of 72 cholera treatment centers and units, working also in 5,000 schools, 300 child-friendly nutrition centers and more than 700 residential care centers to distribute soaps, water purification tablets and train teachers and children on safe hygiene practices and promote adequate and safe child feeding practices for cholera prevention.

Close to 5,000 schools were affected by the earthquake which caused the whole education system to shut down while the Ministry of Education itself collapsed.

Battling cholera is the single most pressing priority for child survival in Haiti.

UNICEF procured US$ 56.1 million of essential commodities and supplies for children, including supplies to support the response to the recent cholera outbreak, along with a further US$ 19.1 million in institutional contracts. Stacked on top of each other, the total number of containers of supplies shipped to Haiti from the onset of the emergency would be more than twice the height of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, with supplies that would fill the Sistine Chapel more than two times over.

UNICEF ensured that:

Education

·  between January and March 2010, 220,000 earthquake-affected children could return to their classrooms when schools reopened in April

·  at the start of the 2010-2011 school year, 720,000 children and 10,000 teachers were able to return to 2,000 schools

·  UNICEF and partners distributed 1,600 tents to set up more than 225 temporary learning spaces, and helped 600 schools to reopen on 5 April 2010 with distributions of learning materials and school equipment benefitting more than 325,000 children and 42,000 teachers.

·  1,600 School tents installed to set-up temporary learning spaces

·  To date UNICEF has built 117 Semi-permanent school structures (built and construction ongoing). Of which 47 semi-permanent schools using designs for schools to be hurricane and earthquake-proof and including WASH facilities for children, with construction ongoing in 70 further schools for a total of more than 24,400 children

·  6,000 Education staff trained on psychosocial assistance for children

·  53.520 children benefiting from ECD opportunities

Supply Division Shipments to date:

UNICEF school bags / 400,000
black boards 1160x760 mm / 5,077
School in a carton or school kits for 40 students / 7,782
ECD kits / 4,897
recreation kits / 8,376
school kits for 10 teachers / 1,830
blue ball pens / 400,000
Child protection

·  369 Child-Friendly-Spaces were opened serving 94,800 children across all earthquake-affected areas

·  107 Baby-Friendly tents were set-up, 102,000 children under 12 months receiving feeding support and 48,900 mothers received counseling

Health

·  To date, UNICEF is supporting 72 health facilities in the country to treat patients with cholera

·  UNICEF was supporting a total of 24 Cholera Treatment Centres (CTC), 48 smaller Cholera Treatment Units (CTU) and a network of distribution points where people can quickly access Oral Rehydration Salts (ORS).

·  over 250 tents were distributed to set-up CTCs and CTUs in all ten departments

·  To date more than 2.5 million sachets Oral Rehydration Salts (ORS) have been distributed along with Diarrhoea Disease Kits to treat up to 4,300 severe cases and 17,200 moderate cases, Ringers Lactate to treat a further 1,200 cases, and over 38 million Zinc tablets to reduce the severity and duration of diarrhoea among children.

Supply Division Shipments to date:

diarrheal disease set packing / 75
first Aid kit / 4,359
midwifery kits - basic equipments (excl. suppl. & renewable) / 190
IEHK basic unit (excl. suppl. & renewable) / 619
ORS (in sachets) / 5,306,200
Immunization

Close to two million (1,939.651) children were immunized against five key vaccine-preventable diseases (including measles, polio, DTP, Rubella and polio)

Nutrition

·  more than 102,000 children and 48,900 mothers received nutrition counseling

·  11,250 children suffering from severe acute malnutrition were treated

Supply Division Shipments to date:

micronutrient tablets / 5,400,000
scales for babies / 750
therapeutic spread (in sachets) / 914,550
therapeutic milk (F100 & F75) (in sachets) / 54,800
Shelter

Supply Division Shipments to date:

blankets / 56,500
tents 72 m2 / 1,519
tents 42m2 / 2,513
tents 24m2 / 850
tarpaulin plastic sheets (4m width) (in km / 307
Water & Sanitation

·  up to 680,000 people had access to safe water

·  At the height of the emergency, UNICEF and partners were trucking a daily average of 8.3 million liters of clean water to close to 680,000 people—the equivalent of a line of trucks more than six times the length of the Golden Gate Bridge.

·  With the cholera outbreak, another priority has been ensuring water remains safe at the point of consumption. Working with national partners, UNICEF is providing more than 10.9 tons of chlorine and more 45 million water purification tablets to purify an amount of water equivalent to more than 1,250 Olympic swimming pools. This is serving in an overall effort to ensure water is safe for a 3 million people in Port-au-Prince and forty towns in the country, with UNICEF supplies directly covering half of the metropolitan population in the capital.

·  11,324 latrines have been installed serving 840,000 people

·  UNICEF is working (with private companies) to de-sludge 600 latrines every day to keep camps clean

·  UNICEF worked with partners to immediately mobilized a network of 5,185 trained hygiene mobilizes who have to date reached more than 709,000 people in response to both the earthquake and the outbreak of cholera.

·  90,000 hygiene kits have been distributed to families in displacement sites (one kit covers needs for one household over one month)

·  Over the past year 150 schools were supported with a comprehensive WASH package including efforts to drill boreholes, install gender-segregated latrines and hand washing points and disseminate hygiene promotion messages benefiting a total 76,800 children

·  1.5 million children in 5,000 schools receiving soap and hygiene promotion for cholera prevention

·  Specifically in response to cholera, more than 865,000 bars of soap have been distributed, focusing notably on 1.5 million children in 5,000 schools and 30,000 vulnerable children living in residential care centers in all ten departments

Supply Division Shipments to date:

water family kits (10 families / 2,832
water tanks of diverse capacities (from 10,000l-1,500l) / 455
buckets with lid (14l) / 179,600
water containers 10l / 152,670
water purification Tablets / 53,000,000
water disinfectant sachets / 6,000,000
water pumps / 170
adult hygiene kit / 135,895
Other

·  contingency stocks pre-positioned in twelve different locations in the country

·  More than 163,000 households benefited from the distribution of over 360,000 bed nets in four departments in Haiti’s southern claw

Supply Division Shipments to date:

identity bracelets / 214,000
bed nets / 425,000
solar radio / 8,000

IMPORTANT: Please note that all amounts under Supply Division Shipments are the actual amounts send/shipped to Haiti. This does not mean that they are all distributed in the field. To date is 9th December 2010.

PFP Fundraising Services page 1 21 December 2010