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PROGRESSIN HAITI

Rbui Haiti

Rbati Ayiti

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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, further north in

Haiti, to be with a brother undergoing surgery on Jan. 12.

motorcyce-taxi driver, he had no idea of the severity of the

earthquake unti he rode back down to Cabaret.

I was just so surprised, he says. Everything was in

the streets, and dust and bocks everywhere. I got home,

and my house was destroyed. But my famiy was safe.

Thank God that theyre OK.

Votaire and his wife, Mdiia, now ive in a new

transitiona sheter buit by Habitat. Mdiia, who has the

same shy smie as her 4-year-od son, Johney, stays home

and watches after their two chidren and a niece.

Votaire comes home at east once each day to check on

his famiy.

We really needed this. To me,

compared to what we were

living in, this is a house. Our old

shelterthat wasnt living.

I love seeing my childrenplaying again, he says.

Habitat works in many ways to improve the ong-term

iving conditions of Haitian famiies in need.

erncy shtr kits

Habitat assembed more than 21,000 emergency sheter

kits for partner aid groups in H aiti. These partners

distribute the kits to famiies that have received itte

sheter assistance since the quake.

The kits incude toossuch as hammers, piers,

chises, work goves, rope and tarpsusefu for creating

emergency sheter, ceaning up debris and repairing

damaged houses.

Myrine Byron, 30, worked at a T-shirt factory in Port-

au-Prince before the earthquake. She is unempoyed now,

but her husband works as a handicraft artist. They hope

to repair their home in Carrefour, and recenty received a

Habitat emergency sheter kit.

I cant te you how hard it was to dea with our daiy

needs, Byron said. Receiving this kit tes me that hope

reay never die s.

Hus assssnts

Habitat has aso been entrusted with doing structura

damage assessments in affected houses. Habitat engineers

have competed 2,000 assessmentsadvising famiies

whether their home is ivabe, needs repairs or shoud

be demoished. Thanks to a UN-Human Settements

in reatives in need and

chidren without parents. That

is why she is thankfu to partner

with Habitat to buid a core

house for the many peope who

wi ive with her.

Without Habitat, she says,

my famiy woud be spread out,

not abe to be together. That is

what I am most happy about.

PTHWS TO peRmANeNCe

Programme grant, Habitat pans to assess 15,000 hous

by the end of 2010 in areas hit hard by the earthquake

au-Prince, logne, Cabaret and Jacme.

Scur tnur: A unatin r husin

Habitats utimate, ong-term goa is to create permane

homes in partnership with famiies in need. That can o

happen as ceanup efforts progress and and and prop

rights can be estabished.

The problem:ccording to U.N. estimates, ess tha

5 percent of Haitis and is egay registered. To move

from transitiona sheters to buiding permanent home

estabishing secure tenure for partner famiies is essen

Without secure tenure, famiies coud be evicted from

new homes and have no ega recourse.

The solution:Secure tenure is a key issue that Habi

advocates for wordwide. By working cosey with

feow aid organizations, aong with the U.S. and Haitia

governments, Habitat wi hep estabish systems that

ensure and and property rights.

The future:Where ceanup aows and famiies have

security of tenure, Habitat wi buid permanent housing

In rura Ti Pace, for exampe, just outside Cabaret, Habit

is aready buiding core houses with famiies. Core hous

are sma, permanent homes buit with earthquake-resis

features. Buit to accommodate famiies of ve, these co

homes can add new rooms over time.

With Haitis rainy season hereand hundreds of thousands

of Haitians sti homeessHabitats urgent, primary focus

is providing safe transitiona sheters to famiies eft most

vunerabe by the January earthquake.

Transitina shtrs with a utur

Wood- or stee-frame structures with diagona

crossbeams, meta strapping and concrete post

foundations provide stabiity.

Habitat transitiona sheters are either recycabe

made with materias that can be reused in a permanent

HOW HBITT ReSpoNdS: Famiies are provided with access to a detached,ventiated atrine.

When possibe, transitiona sheters are buit on th

foundation of a famiys former house. If thats not

possibe, crushed rock and sand are used to create

oor inside the sheter.

homeor can be upgraded to become permanent

houses over time. Habitat wi hep famiies upgrade.

gavanized tin roof and durabe tarp was protect

famiies from the rain.

Three windows are provided in each sheter, aowing

breezes to ow through.

In two years, noise Simon, 54, has suffered the destruction

of two homes in Ti Pace by two natura disasters.

In 2008, Hurricane Ike brought ooding aong the Ti

Pace River. During the ood, Simon cung to a mango tree

with one hand whie hoding a grandchid in her other arm.

More than 70 peope died, but her famiy survived.

Simon taks easiy about the ood, but shakes her head

and exhaes sowy when asked about the earthquake: It

was a poweress feeing. With a ood I can run away, or at

east see it coming, but with an earthquake, I cant outrun it.

Simon is a mother to many in her community, taking

THe SImoN fAmIlY: Survivrs tthr


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GETTING TO oRThe earthquake that struck Haiti not ony destroyed homes

and ives; it aso eft survivors without the means to rebuid

and without jobs to make a iving. Haitis unempoyment

rate is above 60 percent.

Thats why Habitats work in Haiti incudes training and

empoying Haitians whose iveihoods have been affected

by the earthquake.

Hwrk

Eyc Mdiien, 26, is one of more than 100 oca workers

who have been trained to buid Habitats transitiona

sheters in Cabaret. It is important, he says, that young men

are equipped to contribute to their communitys renewa.

For us, Habitat is aso giving us something to do,

Mdiien says, taking a break from buiding a transitiona

sheter during an afternoon thunderstorm. We pride

ourseves on being abe to hep rebuid. Peope forget, but

young men are victims here, too. We are out of schoo and

dont have anything to do. It is hard to nd jobs. There isneed here for homes and for work. We can hep.

Become a partner withHabitat and help rebuild Haiti:

habitat.org/haiti

Whether in Haitis decimated capita of Port-au-Prince,

or in cities and towns where famiies have ed seeking

a new beginning, Habitat is committed to buiding

better futures for at east 50,000 Haitian famiies over

the next ve years. To reach that bod goa, Habitat

reies, as aways, on the caring hearts of donors to

support its ministry. Over the past decade, contributions

have enabed Habitat to serve 60,000 famiies affected

by disaster around the wordincuding famiies

previousy affected by hurricanes in Haiti.

HElP ReBIldHITI

THe loRmeRA fAmIlY:

In sarch acSabine lormera, 23, ights up when she remember

husband. He was a very affectionate man, she say

He aways gave me a ot of support, in whatever I

He was a ver y good man.

Her husband, lesey Dejean, was a bus driver;

they met when she was a passenger on his route.

Jan. 12, Dejean had parked his bus outside a pubi

utiity company, waiting to pick up passengers hea

home, when the e arthquake struck. The buiding

coapsed on top of his bus.

Four days after osing her husbandand herhouselormera eft her Port-au-Prince neighborho

for Gonaves, a three-hour drive to the north. She

movedby buswith her sister, niece and grandfa

Her grandfather has since died, adding to her grief

now ives with seven other peope in a sma house

rented by a cousin.

lormera hopes to rebuid her ife in Gonaves a

is one of more than 500 internay dispaced peope

who have appied to partner with Habitat in Gonav

I dont think I ca n go back there, she says of Port-

Prince. Its too sad.

In Haiti, Habitats work on the ground is coordinated

through Habitat Resource Centers, which deveop sheter

programs to t oca needsand train and empoy oca

workers to impement those programs.

Habitat Resource Centers are aready in pace in

logne, Cabaret, Gonaves and Cap-Hatien, with

additiona centers panned for Carrefour, Croix-des-

Bouquets and Jacme.

HABITAT ReSoRCe CeNTeRS: hat thy

Train and empoy Haitians, heping Habitat buid

capacity and provide oca empoyment opportunities.

Provide partner famiies with technica construction

assistance, disaster-mitigation training and nancia

HOW HBITT ReSpoNdS: iteracy education. ssembe materias needed to create transitiona

sheters, and buid or repair permanent housing.

Partner with oca businesses to create new,

disaster-resistant materias needed for buiding,

such as ighter, more exibe micro-concrete that

puts ess stress on support beams and was.

Ray t bui

Forma construction training courses suppy graduates

with new skis to acquire better, we-paying construction

jobs. The courses aso provide trained and trusted workers

for Habitat projects.

In Gonaves and Cap-Hatien, Habitat is in the midst

of a three-year pan to graduate at east 540 construction

students from its work force deveopment program, a joint

project with USIDs KT program and CHF Internationa.

These graduates wi be vita to Habitats efforts to create

housing soutions for earthquake-affected famiies

throughout the country.

Wiy Rne, 36, is the sautatorian of a recent Cap-

Hatien cass of 65 masonry graduates. Graduation ed

him with optimis m. Who knows what is in my futu re now,

Rene says. I am ready to go. Im ready to buid.

His 12-year-od daughter, Ruth, was with him for the

ceremony: This is my rst time wearing a cap and gown, he

says. I fee proud to be wearing thi s in front of my daughter.
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INTERNTIONl HEDURTERS: 121 Habitat St. mericus, G 31709-3498 US

229-924-6935 800-HBITT fax: 229-928-8811 [email protected] habitat.org

Habitat for Humanitys success in Haiti depends on you. Pray

for our staff and partner famiies. Donate to our ongoing

work there. Te your friends and famiy to get invoved.

For compete information on how you can get

invovedincuding donations, advocacy efforts, 2011

vounteer opportunities, and the atest updates on Habitats

work in Haitivisit habitat.org/haiti.

ou can donate:

online:habitat.org/haiti.

phone: 1-229-924-6935 (to-free in the US: 1-800-422-4828)

mail: Habitat for Humanity Internationa

121 Habitat St. mericus, G 31709-3498 US

Cellphone:Text HBITT to 25383 to make a $10 donation.

Help HABITAT HElP HITIAbut Habitat r Huanity

Habitat for Humanity is a nonprot, ecumenica Christian

housing ministry founded on the conviction that every man,

woman and chid deserves a safe, decent and affordabe

pace to ive. Since our founding in 1976, Habitat has been

bessed to provide simpe, decent and affordabe sheter for

more than 1.75 miion peope.

Habitat has been at work in Haiti for more than 26 years.

Habitat is a member of the Haiti Sheter Custer and works

cosey with its partners, the United Nations, and the U.S. and

Haitian governments on sheter issues. Habitat Haitis nationa

director, Caude Jeudy, is a voting member on the Interim Haiti

Reconstruction Commission, which was formed by the Haitian

government to oversee the countrys rebuiding process.

PHOTOS B ER MIllSTEIN

INTERNTIONl HEDURTERS: 121 Habitat St. mericus, G 31709-3498 US

229-924-6935 800-HBITT fax: 229-928-8811 [email protected] habitat.org

Habitat for Humanitys success in Haiti depends on you. Pray

for our staff and partner famiies. Donate to our ongoing

work there. Te your friends and famiy to get invoved.

For compete information on how you can get

invovedincuding donations, advocacy efforts, 2011

vounteer opportunities, and the atest updates on Habitats

work in Haitivisit habitat.org/haiti.

ou can donate:

online:habitat.org/haiti.

phone: 1-229-924-6935 (to-free in the US: 1-800-422-4828)

mail: Habitat for Humanity Internationa

121 Habitat St. mericus, G 31709-3498 US

Cellphone:Text HBITT to 25383 to make a $10 donation.

Help HABITAT HElP HITIAbut Habitat r Huanity

Habitat for Humanity is a nonprot, ecumenica Christian

housing ministry founded on the conviction that every man,

woman and chid deserves a safe, decent and affordabe

pace to ive. Since our founding in 1976, Habitat has been

bessed to provide simpe, decent and affordabe sheter for

more than 1.75 miion peope.

Habitat has been at work in Haiti for more than 26 years.

Habitat is a member of the Haiti Sheter Custer and works

cosey with its partners, the United Nations, and the U.S. and

Haitian governments on sheter issues. Habitat Haitis nationa

director, Caude Jeudy, is a voting member on the Interim Haiti

Reconstruction Commission, which was formed by the Haitian

government to oversee the countrys rebuiding process.

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