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Humanitarian efforts to help rebuild Haiti. Six months after the devastating January quake,
the United Nations recently released a report stating that 1.5 million people remain in
tent camps without basic sanitation. However, international efforts are still being made
to assist Haitian residents striving to recover their day-to-day lives, with organizations
such as US-based CARE that have been building 30 transitional shelters per week while also
distributing construction materials to reinforce self-built structures for privacy, dignity
and safety mainly to women-headed households and other vulnerable people. UK-based HelpAge
International has been aiding the elderly with distributed food, well-being kits, temporary
shelter, medical supplies and nursing care, while Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has partnered
with Ashtrom Jamaica Limited to build a disaster-proof office for Haitian President René Préval
that replaces the one destroyed in the quake. Meanwhile, US-based Mercy Corps is joining
with Haitian soccer star Bobby Duval and the Haitian Ministry of Youth, Sport and Civic
Action to assist youth in healing through engagement in sports, and the United Nations
Childrens Education Fund (UNICEF) has been ensuring that hundreds of thousands of children
and their families have water, food, shelter, medicines and education supplies.
Our heartfelt thanks and Providence bless CARE, HelpAge International, CARICOM, Mercy
Corps UNICEF and all others whose dedicated efforts are making a difference in Haitian
people’s lives. Surely such support is ensuring greater resiliency as we pray for their flourishing
stability, sustenance and peace�