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Date: Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 1:16 AM
Subject: CHF Update - Notes from the field 1.21
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CHF Haiti Update, Thursday 21 2010 -
Notes from the field - January 21 2010
WHERE WE ARE WORKING RIGHT NOW: We are working Port Au Prince (PaP)
(namely Delmas, Petion-Ville, Cite Soleil, Port Au Prince and
Carrefour). We are also working in Grand Goave, Petit Goave, Leogane,
and Gonaives outside of PaP.
ON THE GROUND IN HAITI RIGHT NOW:
Going back to work in Haiti - The Private Sector Roars to Life: Today
through our partnership with Caterpillar, CHF (and its team of trained
Caterpillar operators) were able to clear two sites of rubble in Port Au
Prince using leased equipment from HayTrac, the local Caterpillar
dealer. The work is set to continue thanks to our dedicated,
hard-working team.
· CHF's team of engineers and mobilizers accompanied CAT
operators to work with the Mayor of Delmas to remove rubble in critical
points in the city to clear up road access.
CHF and partner TC2 sent messages to the garment sector, a sector CHF
has been working in to pormote long term job creation, to encourage
continued investment in the sector
· CHF continued to support first responders throughout the
country - including Red Cross and others
· Former CHF and Haytrac trainees who received training under
CHF 8 week of training program done three months ago have turned their
training into practical use in rebuilding their country
· Yesterday CHF and other met with Prime Minister Bellerive was
there to go over the overall structure of the coordination between the
government, the IO, and local organizations.
· CHF held a coordination meeting this morning at CHF office in
Petit Goave to gather first responders site leaders and local NGO
partners to receive instructions on how to mobilize their communities in
advance of aid distributions.
· Yesterday the Mayor of Carrefour called CHF for assistance in
helping rescue a live person in a Carrefour destroyed building. Victims
continue to be found alive in buildings - see our website for the rescue
of 5 year Michael in Petit Goave. CHF worked with the Embassy team to
assist the Mayor.
· Based on CHF Haiti´s familiarity to local mayors, the Shelter
Cluster lead asked CHF to play a liaison role between the cluster
members and the local authorities.
· CHF coordinated with the IFRC to begin construction of its
transitional shelter as pilot projects in some selected sites. IFRC and
CHF worked together to source supplies - such as plastic sheeting to
begin the transitional shelter pilot. IFRC and CHF have worked together
in past disasters in Peru and Indonesia.
· CHF and Habitat for Humanity will continue our partnership in
Haiti and focus on transitional shelters.
· Through the generous contribution of the Vicini Group CHF is
identifying warehouse space in Jimani for staging supply convoys to Haiti.
· CHF with support from NetHope and Inveneo CHF has set up a
VSAT on its roof to connect more than 15 international NGOs (next the
network will be expanded by Cisco and others) More info at
www.nethope.org/haiti <http://www.nethope.org/haiti>
<http://www.nethope.org/haiti>
CHF continues to work at emergency response, lending our facilities,
equipment and logistics to assist in the relief operations. We are
supporting numerous first responder organizations including Partners in
Health, Spanish, French and Haitian Red Cross, The Boy Scouts, Medecins
du Monde Suisse. Kits arrived for 1000 families that include shelters,
kitchen sets, mosquito nets, jerry cans, and four large tents for
emergency hospital rooms, which are set to be distributed.
We are continuing to prepare for the forthcoming weeks - and months - as
we focus on rubble removal, water and sanitation and transitional
shelter and employing Haitian communities in the clean up of their
neighborhoods.
CHF-Haiti Blog Update - January 21, 2010:
Relief distributions proceeding peacefully. Some first hand notes from
our Field Director Bob Fagan in Petit Goave:
"In Grand Goave they saw their first food distribution this afternoon.
The distributions themselves were extremely orderly. A Christian mission
in the area run by Ohio-based organization Lifeline gave food that was
sent to 26 sites in Grand Goave. A pair of MINUSTAH soldiers stood guard
at most sites I saw, but the crowd was calm and orderly even where
MINUSTAH were absent.
While in Grand Goave we stopped by the Mayor Salam's house to see how we
could help and to let him know what sort of information would help the
international community coordinate an effective disaster response. The
Mayor underlined the water problem that the town faces. As we talked
outside his house, a Lifeline shipment of aid arrived across the street.
Far from the chaos that some people in the media seem to expect, the
unloading was met with calmly and a local organization quickly took
charge of mobilizing people in the area.
Through a local organization of citizens and community leaders called
Bousol, Grand Goave has already identified its target areas, vulnerable
citizens, and community priorities. According to the Mayor, no outside
aid has yet arrived in town other than Lifeline's assistance, which is
appreciated, but still not enough. The Mayor said he would compile as
much data as he could find about damage to Grand Goave and community
needs, then send it to us tomorrow if possible."
News from Haiti - Compiled from various reports
· Representatives of the private sector in Haiti met with the
Acting SRSG yesterday. They discussed ways for MINUSTAH forces to secure
the business sector in the resumption of their activities, mainly by
protecting certain roads and streets, and patrol fuel stations and
banks. Private sector representatives expressed their commitment to
support the Haitian government and MINUSTAH in the current humanitarian
operations.
· An estimated 200,000 of persons have so far been assisted with
essential NFIs, including jerry cans, aquatabs and hygiene kits. A few
tents have been distributed by the government and the US military but no
formal figure available to date.
· Major banks (Scotia Bank, Sogebank and UNIBank) getting ready
open Saturday "as usual" in most parts of Petion-Ville
· Around 15,000 tents are available in country. More are in the
pipeline - but this continues to be an urgent commodity.
· The Haitian Senate relocated in the premises of the Haitian
National Police (HNP) Academy in Port-au-Prince yesterday, following the
collapse of the Haitian parliament building on 12 January. In the view
of a lack of quorum, several of its members held an informal session
yesterday, as only 15 of them were present and needed other 3 (total of
18), for a formal session.
SECURITY and LOGISTICS
· The current security conditions are stable with isolated
reports of looting and violence. A curfew has been in effect since 9 p.m.
· The conditions of prison facilities and earlier prison escapes
continue to be cause for concern.
* All requests for transport by US military assets are being
coordinated through the Logistics Cluster to ensure the most effective
use of the available resources.
* Cargo movement request forms and temporary storage request forms
are available on the Logistics Cluster website at
http://www.logcluster.org/ops/hti10a.
* Electrical power was still out most places in Port-au-Prince,
but traffic lights were functioning. Some banks, wire-transfer offices
and a few stores reportedly were planning to reopen Thursday.
SHELTER
· A camp that would accommodate 400 persons will be set up in
Delmas tomorrow at a site formally identified by the government. Ongoing
assessment of the 31 sites identified by the government for use as camps
continues
· Haiti's government plans to relocate some 400,000 homeless
survivors of last week's earthquake to new villages to be set up outside
the wrecked capital
· In the first wave, the government would move 100,000 refugees
to tent villages of 10,000 each near the northern town of Croix Des Bouquets
· A number of IDP camps have sprung up in Grand Goave
· IOM estimates that some 370,000 people are living in makeshift
settlements throughout the city with limited access to water and
sanitation. Until tents can be provided, priority needs for those in
these settlements include plastic sheeting, water containers, and water
purification tablets.
· Approximately half of all structures in PAP are believed to
have collapsed.
* The Government reminded humanitarian partners of the upcoming
rainy season which starts in April and expressed its wish to provide
shelter to all displaced by that date.
* In Jacmel, Hazem El-Zein of the WFP said he thought 30,000
people were without homes in southern Haiti.
WATSAN
* The makeshift settlements in PAP are a concern due to limited
latrine capacity.
* The WASH cluster announced that no more water purification units
are needed, but shortages persist for bladders, distribution units,
small water pumps for drinking water and drums for latrines. The cluster
will begin sanitation and hygiene promotion activities shortly.
* As of 19 January, the WASH Cluster has established 82
distribution sites for water, and has 180 water trucks with a total
capacity to provide water to 180,000 people. Water tanks are been
erected in each zone of the city.
OTHER
* The Government estimates that 75,000 people have been killed,
200,000 injured and one million displaced by the earthquake that struck
on 12 January.
* WFP estimates that up to 2 million persons affected by the
earthquake require food assistance in Haiti, noting that an estimated
1.8 million Haitians were food insecure prior to the earthquake.
* FAO reports that the planting season is due to begin in two
weeks' time in Haiti. It will work with the Ministry of Agriculture in
the DR and Haiti to help with the restoration of livelihoods.
* The US is sending another 4,000 sailors and marines to Haiti for
the earthquake relief effort, diverting them from deployments in the
Gulf and Africa. The move will increase the number of US troops involved
to about 16,000.
Our response plans - CHF International: from Relief to Development
CHF International is an international development and humanitarian
relief organization whose mission in responding to emergencies is to
bring development into relief at the earliest possible time. In the
last few years we have taken this philosophy into our responses in
Haiti, Georgia, Gaza and Indonesia, with correspondingly successful
results, both in terms of immediate relief and long-term sustainable
change. CHF's focus on the ground will be to distribute immediate
necessities to survivors in the aftermath of the natural disaster,
specifically food, aid, water and shelter. Our team is conducting an
immediate assessment of the damage neighborhood by neighborhood and will
be assisting on rubble removal. We are doing to best to work with local
partners were available.
We have three main approaches to our emergency response:
* Shelter
CHF has nearly 60 years experience in housing and shelter. In an
emergency, after the initial basic shelter, families need "transitional"
shelter. This means safe and sanitary temporary homes that meet
international standards that can be lived in for 1-2 years while full
reconstruction takes place. CHF integrates community input into our
designs and uses local materials to create appropriate designs for each
region. Our Peru transitional shelter design from 2007 is now used all
over the world by the Red Cross.
* Livelihoods
After a disaster, the key to economic reintegration is getting a
population back to work. CHF provides high impact, cash-for-work
employment for communities in the clean-up of their local area, removing
debris, tearing down damaged houses and repairing others. This creates
income, teaches skills, gives communities self-esteem, and puts them in
the driving seat of their own development.
* Risk Reduction
As CHF undertakes reconstruction, we train local workers in earthquake
and storm resistant construction techniques, educate communities in how
to respond in the event of a natural or political disaster and work with
municipal governments on plans for disaster mitigation.
Haiti
CHF is uniquely placed in Haiti to make an impact in moving from relief
to development. With over 170 staff across the whole country already in
place, mostly experts in construction, economic and infrastructure
development, and years of experience working with the government,
private sector and communities in vital construction and job creation
projects, CHF has demonstrated this capacity in overseeing $26 million
in US government assistance in response to the disastrous 2008 tropical
storm season, repairing roads, bridges, river defenses, schools and
flooded rural areas to great effect. This work has been integrated into
our total $104 million USAID funding for infrastructure and job creation
across Haiti.
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