Over 800 Thousand Haitians are Deployed After Earthquake

The United Nations informed that there are over 800 thousand Haitians living on miserable conditions. This morning the country commemorates a year of the earthquake that assailed Puerto Principe, now every major humanitarian agency of the UN and the International Federation of Red Cross Societies, and the Red Half Moon agreed that the reconstruction of Haiti would take years.

Elisabeth Byrs, the spokesman of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), informed to the press that there are still 800,000 Haitians deployed, 500 thousand are children that live in camps, and shelters. These people do not have any protection and are threatened with exploitation and abuse, according to the ONG Save the Children.

The earthquake of 7 degrees of magnitude that caused the death of 222,570 civilians, left 1,5 million of victims. The refugees have spread around the country, and are being organized by different humanitarian organizations. The quickest response for this issue would be the construction of “transition shelters,” which are small houses made of with wood or light metals. This would offer solid structures.

Last October, Fadela Chaib, spokesman of the World Health Organization (WHO), informed that the cholera outbreak that they have been facing has killed 3,651 and 171,304 people are still infected. The World Food Program (WFP), currently feeds 2 million of people, which are two million less that the ones they attended during the first months of the catastrophe.

Byrs pointed out “the priority for 2011 would be the recovery of the country and the whole humanitarian community is compromised to it.”