{"id":399,"date":"2010-02-04T13:29:44","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T17:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/cwr\/?p=399"},"modified":"2010-11-08T15:45:01","modified_gmt":"2010-11-08T19:45:01","slug":"haiti-update-wednesday-february-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/cwr\/2010\/02\/haiti-update-wednesday-february-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Haiti Update: Wednesday, February 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-401 aligncenter\" title=\"5983_ss\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2010\/02\/5983_ss-300x207.jpg\" alt=\"5983_ss\" width=\"300\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/cwr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2010\/02\/5983_ss-300x207.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/cwr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2010\/02\/5983_ss-1024x708.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/cwr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2010\/02\/5983_ss.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n<\/strong>\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Work in Haiti continues.\u00a0 Reports say that most people are having their basic needs\u2014food and water\u2014met.\u00a0 Temporary shelter is being distributed-but only around 70,000 or the 200,000 to 300,000 families displaced have received tents or tarps.<strong><\/p>\n<p><\/strong>\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 More than 480,000 people have left Port-au-Prince for locations outside the city.\u00a0 More than 90 percent of these people have sought shelter with relatives or friends.\u00a0 These households\u2014many already teetering on the edge of food insecurity\u2014are at high risk in the coming days and weeks.\u00a0 The need to target these homes\u2014as well as respond to the needs in Port-au-Prince and other quake affected areas\u2014is significant.<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The plight of Haitian children continues to be a major media focus.\u00a0 UNICEF estimates there are 375 orphanages hosting 230,000 children in need of support.\u00a0 It continues to be important to note that because of extreme poverty many face in Haiti, orphanages often house children who have living parents.\u00a0 After the quake, the United States government is still requiring that all appropriate steps be taken to ensure children do not have living parents or close relatives in Haiti before adoption is considered. The Department of Homeland Security has said, at least until proper legal mechanisms are in place, only adoptions in process before the earthquake can continue. The long term goal is to strengthen and reunite families and enable them to care for their own children.\u00a0 Continue to pray for the safety and protection of children as well as the reunification of families who have been separated.<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 On February 1, schools not affected by the earthquake reopened.\u00a0 Between 2,500 and 4,600 schools were not able to reopen.\u00a0 The international community is working quickly to provide school materials, shelter and other necessary goods to benefit more than 720,000 students as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 World Relief\u2019s food distributions are shifting.\u00a0 The World Food Program is centralizing their distributions through 7 organizations each established to serve the 17 districts in the city.\u00a0 World Relief is working to ensure those churches and organizations we have been providing food for are transitioned into the new distribution system.\u00a0 This week, we will continue to provide food at King\u2019s Hospital and a church in Mais Gate. World Relief plans to continue to participate in feeding centers and distributions as we move forward, but the method is likely to change as the situation on the grounds shifts into longer term recovery.\u00a0 Pray for continued cooperation of organizations on the ground.<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 World Relief is distributing water as well as planning for long-term water sources in communities. World Relief\u2019s team has delivered 20 truck loads of water, a total of 64,000 gallons, to displaced quake survivors.\u00a0\u00a0 Our long-term plans include partnering with a local Christian organization to drill six boreholes\u2014each around 100 feet deep\u2014in\u00a0 targeted communities.\u00a0 These, costing about $7000 to drill, will be equipped with submersible pumps and provide a sustainable water supply in each community.\u00a0 To read more about churches and communities involved in water distribution, click <a href=\"http:\/\/worldrelief.org\/Page.aspx?pid=2395\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 World Relief secured the donation of 2,000 tarps\u2014which will be distributed to vulnerable families this week.\u00a0 We will continue to access additional tarps in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In the United States, World Relief\u2019s local offices are mobilizing to provide support for Haitians seeking Temporary Protective Status enabling them to work and travel in the United States.\u00a0 World Relief\u2019s Stephan Bauman, Amy Tenney and Jenny Hwang will join other organizations tomorrow in a briefing on Capitol Hill.<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-report-this\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/cwr?moderation_action=report_form&#038;object_type=post&#038;object_id=399&#038;width=250&#038;height=300\" class=\"thickbox\" title=\"Report This Post\">Report This Post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Work in Haiti continues.\u00a0 Reports say that most people are having their basic needs\u2014food and water\u2014met.\u00a0 Temporary shelter is being distributed-but only around 70,000 or the 200,000 to 300,000 families displaced have received tents or tarps. \u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 More than 480,000 people have left Port-au-Prince for locations outside the city.\u00a0 More than 90 percent of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[278],"tags":[18161],"class_list":["post-399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disaster-relief","tag-haiti-relief"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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