The rest will be spent on boosting agriculture, commerce and industry as well as repairing key infrastructure. Just over three-quarters of that, so around $1.5bn will go towards reinvigorating social services including housing, health, education and food security programmes. In November, the Government published an assessment of the amount of money it needs to rebuild and recover it amounts to close to $2 billion. Six months after the earthquake, Haiti has moved beyond the immediate emergency and is now looking at long-term recovery and reconstruction. Heres his survival story, one year later. Expectant mothers were cared for and often gave birth in tents. For 65 hours after the quake hit Haiti, this young American aid worker was trapped beneath a collapsed hotel. Some 60 health facilities were also destroyed, so emergency wards were supported by the UN Population Fund UNFPA and UNICEF.
The provision of hot meals for school children by the World Food Programme was stepped up in order to encourage those children whose schools were not destroyed to carry on attending classes. The International Organization for Migration provided temporary shelters for people who lost their homes, food and other items so people could get by.
The UN humanitarian affairs office, OCHA, played a central role in coordinating the response. In the immediate aftermath of the earthquake, the Government with the support of the United Nations and others swung into action to provide emergency humanitarian aid to the affected people. The World Food Programme has been stepping up food distribution in earthquake-ravaged Haiti.
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