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PROGRESSIN HAITI

Rbui Haiti

Rbati Ayiti

SIx-moNTH RepoRT

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REl NeedSix months after a magnitude-7.0 earthquake destroyed

neary 190,000 homes and eft more than 1.5 miion

survivors in need of sheter, the need in Haiti is great and

undeniabe. Haitian hearts sti mourn for famiy, friends,

homes and jobs ost on Jan. 12.

The scae of ceanup and rubbe remova remains

daunting. Dispaced famiies crowd into urban tent cities,

survive in their own makeshift sheters, or seek refuge

in other parts of the country. nd now the summer rainy

season has begun, highighting amost daiy the urgent

need for safe, heathy sheter.

REl fAmIlIeSt the same time, ife goes on. The resiience of Haitis

peope is evident everywhere. Businesses reopen in front

of coapsed buidings. Famiies work to cear rubbe where

their homes once stood, and worship on Sunday inside

churches sti missing front doors.

Many famiies are partnering with Habitat for Humanity

to provide safe, heathy housing for themseves and their

chidren. Pease meet:

RoseFloReChaRlesandheRthReeChildRen, who now

ive in a Habitat transitiona sheter. This is not just a

transitiona sheter for me, Chares says. It is a home.

(See next page)

GRandmotheRanolisesimon,who can continue to ook

after her ock of reatives in a new Habitat core house.(See page 5)

elyCmdilien,who received construction training from

Habitat so he can hep rebuid his hometown. (See page 6)

Just six months after the earthquake, Habitat is:

Constructing about 70 transitiona sheters a

weekin paces ike Cabaret, beowproviding

safe, dry housing for Haitians iving in unheathy,

vunerabe conditions.

Working through Habitat Resource Centers to train

and empoy oca workers in buiding efforts

and suppying famiies with courses in disaster

mitigation and nancia iteracy.

Providing more than 21,000 emergency sheter

kits, conducting structura damage assessments in

affected houses, repairing homes, and advocating

for and-tenure poicies to protect famiies property

rights as they rebuid.

Read on to earn about the strength of Haitis

famiiesand how you can hep Habitat hep Haiti.

RElpRogReSSOver the next ve years, Habitat

aims to serve 50,000 earthquake-

affected famiies, heping Haitians

move toward safer, more secure,

permanent paces to ca home.

THe CHARleS fAmIlY:

Thirstin r a husRose Fore Chares and her three young chidren spent

12, 2010, at the logne home of Chares mother. The

were not in their sma apartment across town at 4:53 p

when the buiding coapsed during the earthquake, ki

three of their neighbors. In that minute, neary 90 perc

of logne was destroyed.

For 16 straight nights, Chares and her chidren se

outside. Chares soon created a makeshift sheter near

her mothers damaged home. Made mosty of bedshee

with meta gates propped together to provide a faade

strength, the structure has ony a green coat-hanger w

hod a scrap door tight.

In Haitis rainy seasonwhich brings even more ma

carrying mosquitoesChares chidren suffered. Seep

in the od sheter, the rain aways got in, Chares says.

have to go to the heath center and ask for hep when th

fevers get very bad.

s she speaks, a ight rain eaves beads of water on

shouders and on her 2-year-od daughter, Guaina Deva

soon the Chares famiy wi have a new pace to take ref

a Habitat transitiona sheter.

I am thirsting for this house , Chares says, smiing

she watches the wood-frame sheter being buit.

Chares famiy received one of the rst 25 Habitat

transitiona sheters buit in this community within log

about 18 mies west of Port-au-Prince and very near the

epicenter of the January earthquake. By training and

empoying Haitians in communities hit hardest by the

earthquake, Habitat is now constructing about 70 transiti

sheters a week. Famiies hep, too; Chares heped cear

ground for her sheter and hammered in nais.

This is not just a transitio

shelter for me. It is a hom

T: Atr th arthquak, th Chars aiy

iv in an unhathy akshit structur.

Btt: Tay, th Chars aiy i vs in a

nw Habitat transitina shtr.

REl NeedSix months after a magnitude-7.0 earthquake destroyed

neary 190,000 homes and eft more than 1.5 miion

survivors in need of sheter, the need in Haiti is great and

undeniabe. Haitian hearts sti mourn for famiy, friends,

homes and jobs ost on Jan. 12.

The scae of ceanup and rubbe remova remains

daunting. Dispaced famiies crowd into urban tent cities,

survive in their own makeshift sheters, or seek refuge

in other parts of the country. nd now the summer rainy

season has begun, highighting amost daiy the urgent

need for safe, heathy sheter.

REl fAmIlIeSt the same time, ife goes on. The resiience of Haitis

peope is evident everywhere. Businesses reopen in front

of coapsed buidings. Famiies work to cear rubbe where

their homes once stood, and worship on Sunday inside

churches sti missing front doors.

Many famiies are partnering with Habitat for Humanity

to provide safe, heathy housing for themseves and their

chidren. Pease meet:

RoseFloReChaRlesandheRthReeChildRen, who now

ive in a Habitat transitiona sheter. This is not just a

transitiona sheter for me, Chares says. It is a home.

(See next page)

GRandmotheRanolisesimon,who can continue to ook

after her ock of reatives in a new Habitat core house.(See page 5)

elyCmdilien,who received construction training from

Habitat so he can hep rebuid his hometown. (See page 6)

Just six months after the earthquake, Habitat is:

Constructing about 70 transitiona sheters a

weekin paces ike Cabaret, beowproviding

safe, dry housing for Haitians iving in unheathy,

vunerabe conditions.

Working through Habitat Resource Centers to train

and empoy oca workers in buiding efforts

and suppying famiies with courses in disaster

mitigation and nancia iteracy.

Providing more than 21,000 emergency sheter

kits, conducting structura damage assessments in

affected houses, repairing homes, and advocating

for and-tenure poicies to protect famiies property

rights as they rebuid.

Read on to earn about the strength of Haitis

famiiesand how you can hep Habitat hep Haiti.

RElpRogReSSOver the next ve years, Habitat

aims to serve 50,000 earthquake-

affected famiies, heping Haitians

move toward safer, more secure,

permanent paces to ca home.

THe CHARleS fAmIlY:

Thirstin r a husRose Fore Chares and her three young chidren spent

12, 2010, at the logne home of Chares mother. The

were not in their sma apartment across town at 4:53 p

when the buiding coapsed during the earthquake, ki

three of their neighbors. In that minute, neary 90 perc

of logne was destroyed.

For 16 straight nights, Chares and her chidren se

outside. Chares soon created a makeshift sheter near

her mothers damaged home. Made mosty of bedshee

with meta gates propped together to provide a faade

strength, the structure has ony a green coat-hanger w

hod a scrap door tight.

In Haitis rainy seasonwhich brings even more ma

carrying mosquitoesChares chidren suffered. Seep

in the od sheter, the rain aways got in, Chares says.

have to go to the heath center and ask for hep when th

fevers get very bad.

s she speaks, a ight rain eaves beads of water on

shouders and on her 2-year-od daughter, Guaina Deva

soon the Chares famiy wi have a new pace to take ref

a Habitat transitiona sheter.

I am thirsting for this house , Chares says, smiing

she watches the wood-frame sheter being buit.

Chares famiy received one of the rst 25 Habitat

transitiona sheters buit in this community within log

about 18 mies west of Port-au-Prince and very near the

epicenter of the January earthquake. By training and

empoying Haitians in communities hit hardest by the

earthquake, Habitat is now constructing about 70 transiti

sheters a week. Famiies hep, too; Chares heped cear

ground for her sheter and hammered in nais.

This is not just a transitio

shelter for me. It is a hom

T: Atr th arthquak, th Chars aiy

iv in an unhathy akshit structur.

Btt: Tay, th Chars aiy i vs in a

nw Habitat transitina shtr.

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THe JoSepH fAmIlY: Rturn t ivinToday, Sainte Hen Josephs famiy fees a security they

hadnt fet in the past six months. Their new Habitat

transitiona sheter stands among a row of six buit in

Cabarets Bercy community, just north of Port-au-Prince.

feeing of renewa has formed among famiies who ost

everything in the earthquake. Joseph and her husband are

farming once again, growing pantains and eggpants as

they save to rebuid a permanent home.

From her new Habitat sheter, Joseph, 28, can see the

makeshift structure that she, her husband and their four

chidrenincuding Derince, at eftcaed home for four

months. Used coth, bedsheets and bags formed was

that came nowhere near the ground, eaving the famiy

vunerabe to many types of intruders.

THe BlANC fAmIlY: Sa at hVotaire Banc had traveed to Gonaves