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Haiti Earthquake Overwhelms Medical Workers
Survivors Struggle to Find Adequate Medical Care; Many Thousands Trapped Under RubbleThe International Red Cross said a third of the country's 9 million people may need emergency aid. Red Cross volunteers on the ground have been providing first aid to victims but ran out of supplies Wednesday night.
The earthquake hit about 10 miles south-west of Port-au-Prince, the densely-populated Haitian capital, causing massive loss of life, damage to property and leaving around 1.5 million people homeless.
With much of the city in ruins, the death toll has been estimated to be around 75,000 — making it by far the worst disaster in Haiti in over 200 years.
There is no running water, and Save the Children staff responding report that some half of all homes were damaged or destroyed. While international relief is reaching the stricken areas, children and families who survived are in dire need of shelter and support. The earthquake hit in the afternoon when many children were in school and separated from their families.
Many schools collapsed during the tremors. Children have been sleeping among dead bodies, which lie strewn on the ground in many areas. The risk of outbreak of diseases is very high lack due to the lack of clean water and so many people living so close together in makeshift camps.
Haiti
- Haiti is the poorest country in the western hemisphere. Over 70% of Haitians live on less than $1 per day.
- People only live for an average of 52 years.
- Rates of infant, child, and maternal mortality are among the highest in the region. One in four children are malnourished.
- Over 200,000 children are HIV and AIDS orphans. 3.8% of the population is believed to be HIV positive, among them 17,000 children.
SOS Baby Help
"SOS Baby Help" has distributed tons of food, plastic sheeting, water purification tablets, medicines, kitchen equipment, rehydration salts and other non-food items to children whose homes have been destroyed
implementing programs focused on early childhood care and development, child survival and child protection
As their immediate physical needs are met, we work to restore their well-being and sense of normalcy, in addition to ensuring that their protection, education and survival needs are addressed.
Please give as generously as you can to aid in our efforts to help the children and families whose lives have been forever changed by war and natural disasters
Through our programs, Save the Children can achieve so much for so little:
for as little as $50, we can provide a household kit with blankets, mosquito nets, plastic sheeting, mattresses, candles and more.
for only $40, we can provide personal hygiene kits containing items like towels, buckets, razors, sanitary towels, toothbrushes and toothpaste
for $8 we can distribute oral rehydration salts which can save the lives of children who suffer from diarrhoea-related dehydration.
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Children in Haiti are incredibly vulnerable to injury, illness and trauma
Amazing tales of survival as a woman and child are pulled from Haiti's rubble