UNICEF: Aid for Haiti's most vulnerable

http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/haiti_52731.html

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, 9 February 2010 Four weeks after the earthquake that devastated Port-au-Prince and other parts of Haiti, the capitals Toussaint Louverture International Airport never sleeps. Supply flights arrive 24 hours a day with essential aid for those left homeless by the quake, including the most vulnerable survivors: orphaned and separated children.

In response to this childrens emergency, UNICEF, the government and other humanitarian agencies have mobilized on many fronts. For example:

* Nearly 200 residential child centres like the orphanage in Lilavois have received essential food, medicine and equipment.




* Almost 8,000 caregivers have received nutritional counselling through community mobilization and education.




* Some 1,200 mothers and infants have participated in baby-friendly feeding activities in temporary settlements around Port-au-Prince.




* In partnership with Save the Children, UNICEF has established over 30 child-friendly spaces to protect vulnerable children, and one special residential care centre is now up and running.

Interventions in the critical areas of nutrition, safe water and sanitation are also being brought to scale, to prevent malnutrition and disease outbreaks in camps for the displaced. Meanwhile, a major immunization campaign for more than 500,000 children under seven is ongoing.

The needs in the earthquake zone are overwhelming, but so is the support that the international community has shown. As aid shipments continue to arrive in Haiti, UNICEF and its partners will continue working to ensure that emergency supplies reach those most in need.

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• UNICEF
• Haiti
• earthquake
• children
• orphans
• protection
• sanitation
• education
• rights
• health

[tayounorise]

Thank you for all you do to help peoplee and children in need! You need much more support and i wish more people engage in giving money and also medicines and personal who travel there and help building up the city and the people again!

So much help meeded!

Much peace love and respect to you!

God bless your ministry and all the poeple in haiti!

*bow*

angela