Haiti Earthquake: Crisis response
Haiti, the poorest country in the western hemisphere, has been torn apart by a catastrophic in 7.0 magnitude quake. The biggest earthquake in 200 years.
It is now feared that up to 200,000 people may have have lost their lives and a third of the country's 9 million people may need emergency aid.
- ActionAid UK is launching a campaign ask the government to help rebuild a HungerFREE Haiti for the long term
- Read the true stories of the earthquake survivors and heros in "Stories from the Frontline"
- ActionAid's Sarah Gilliam and Anjali Kwatra are writing daily diaries from the relief effort in Port-au-Prince
Demand a HungerFREE Haiti
As part of our work on the emergency in Haiti, ActionAid UK has just launched a campaign action asking the UK government to help bring long term change to the country and rebuild a HungerFREE Haiti.
Haiti lacks the medical facilities but people are fighting to cope
Anjali Kwatra went to two hospitals with the ActionAid team who are looking at how we can provide long term help to people who have been left disabled by the earthquake. Among those injused, she met four year old Itson and his Mother Maryse.
Staff in Haiti have been working around the clock to provide life-saving emergency aid
The team will have distributed food to around 9,000 people by the end of this week and plan to double that amount to 20,000 people in the next two weeks.
IMF bows to pressure on $100 million loan to Haiti
The IMF has bowed to pressure from activists and the media to convert their $100m emergency loan into a grant, removing all conditionality. Analysis by ActionAid played a key role in the IMF changing course in a matter of days.
ActionAid rolls out food delivery in Haiti
ActionAid will be distributing over 200 tonnes of food in the Mariani district of Port-au-Prince, with flour, corn, rice, sugar, tinned fish and jerry cans going to people most in need.
