After the passage of the earthquake that shook the country and devastated its infrastructure, the major problems the country faced long have worsened.

An assessment of damage caused by the devastating earthquake shows that the major problems in all areas of the country in general and those in which CRECH intervenes in particular must be understood from several angles.

We mention the need for food for all the country’s economic base primarily in the departments of the West and South-eastern are carried away in the earthquake; there are the security requirements so far as Haitians are sleeping under the stars and some in dust contaminated Street.

We also need funding for schools because now there are many schools damaged and many others destroyed; there are needs for health and this multi-faceted.  Before thinking school, support to the mental health of the population is necessary because many people are traumatized and unable to resume normal lives without special psychological assistance, as is the case with this girl, 8 years old who has lost his mental functions after learning that his father is carried away by the earthquake, but also health needs because the country is contaminated with dust mortis that may cause epidemic diseases with the rainy and hurricane season that is already announced.  So students must be vaccinated to be protected against epidemic diseases.

The goal in our partnership with CRECH is to accomplish these first goals, as proposed by the partner:

·       Provide psychosocial and spiritual support to 20 000 traumatized children and young in the areas most affected by the earthquake: Port-au-Prince, Delmas, Carrefour, Petion-Ville, Arcahaie, Cabaret, Leogane, Grand Goave, Minor Goâve, Gressier, Jacmel as a transitional stage for the resumption of school

·       Provide food assistance in partnership with Parole and Action and other partners to children and young beneficiaries of psychosocial and spiritual mentoring program

·       Allow 2 000 teachers without livelihood and income to survive for 6 months

·       Provide 200 school tents as temporary classrooms to facilitate the return of students to school

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