Getting a decent schooling in Haiti has never been easy but the challenges became painfully clear after the 2010 earthquake.According to government statistics, 1,347 teachers and 38,500 students were...
The Je nan Je (meaning Eye to Eye) campaign was born in 2011 in response to Haiti's housing crisis. With hundreds of thousands of survivors from the 2010 earthquake still living in tents and an...
After the earthquake that killed close to 300,000 people in January 2010, ActionAid Haiti saw an opportunity to make one disaster-prone community much much safer.Philippeaux is a desperately poor...
When I joined ActionAid Haiti’s team in November 2010, about 10 months after the devastating earthquake of January 12, 2010, something particular caught my attention: ActionAid Haiti was responding...
It’s nearly a month after Hurricane Sandy swept past Haiti, killing 54 people and displacing thousands. Whilst the world’s media has turned its attention to disasters on the other side of the...
Hurricane Sandy poured a large amount of rain on Haiti as it swept through the Americas recently. According to the latest assessment report by the SNGRD (National System of Disaster Risk Management...
“I have been afraid of bad weather since the earthquake of January 2010,” 56-year old Emma Joseph told the ActionAid team as Haiti began picking up the pieces after Hurricane Sandy.Living in Tet...
As Hurricane Sandy powers its way towards the east coast of the USA, it leaves several countries in its wake. The Caribbean felt the full force of the Category 1 storm, with heavy rains pelting Haiti...
Two years after the 2010 earthquake that hit Haiti, thousands are still homeless. In Mariani (Carrefour, Port-au-Prince) due to a lack of land for shelter, livings conditions continue to deteriorate...
The parliamentarians commission charged to work on the bill to guarantee access to land and decent housing in Haiti met with the “Je nan Je” platform on Wednesday January 17th, 2012 as announced by...
The Je nan Je platform with ActionAid Haiti’s support have once again made its voice heard. On January 11th, 2012 the Je nan Je platform motivated more than 10,000 people across the...
Two years after the devastating earthquake of January 12, 2010, ActionAid Haiti continues to help the most vulnerable to rebuild their shattered lives. Some 10,000 people marched through downtown...
On 12 January it will be two years exactly since an earthquake devastated Haiti. It is estimated 220,000 people died and 1.5 million people were made homeless. According to the International...
On April 19th 2011, ActionAid Haiti with partner Cozpam organized a community meeting to share information with the most vulnerable and affected Haitians of Camp Bon Berger in Mariani. This meeting...
Sixteen year old Dieuthama Faustin, a 5th grade student living in Thiotte, is one of more than 10,000 people who will be benefitting from internet access at a new community communication centre.The...
20 year old Joassaint Nelson is from Philippeaux, an area in which thousands of earthquake survivors have been living in tents since the earthquake of January 2010.
Long after the earthquake, children are still suffering from the emotional and mental trauma of living through such a disaster. ActionAid is working to heal these invisible scars.
This disaster risk reduction scheme helped save the life of thousands of people living in Thiotte during hurricane Tomas that hit Haiti in the beginning of November 2010.
