Recovering Hope
Recovering Hope follows the lives of 3 Haitian women who are trying to build back their lives after the devastating earthquake of January 2010. Supported by a livelihoods grant from the Red Cross the series will follow former teacher Marie, elderly Mariane and single mother Luciana as they work on setting up a business and earning an income, taking the first steps towards a new future.
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14 December 2011
Haiti: Alternative Shelter Solutions
This video explains IFRC's Self-sheltering Programme in Haiti, providing safe and improved shelter solutions which help people to leave overcrowded camps and allow them to lead their own recovery process.
28 July 2011
A Safer Home: Shelter in Haiti
Eighteen months after the earthquake and the Red Cross Movement has helped to re house over 60,000 people in Haiti, both in highly populated areas such as Port au Prince and also more remote, and difficult to access communities.
21 December 2010 Shelter and Haiti12 months after the earthquake recovery efforts continue. An estimated 1 million people are still living in camps, and agencies are working around the clock to provide improved and safe shelter. In Port-au-Prince, a lack of available land has hindered progress.
9 April 2010
Haiti three months on
After the earthquake strucked Haiti, the IFRC has delivered aid and services to more people in a shorter period of time than it has ever done.
18 March 2010
The first rains in the camps
It is the beginning of the rainy season in Haiti. Soon after one of the first rains of the season in the camps, the scene transforms into rain soaked mud-bath.
Thanks to the Irish Television channel RTE (www.rte.ie) for providing this footage free of charge to the IFRC.
3 March 2010
The Cluster approach
The IFRC has the responsibility of the emergency shelter cluster in natural disasters.
11 February 2010
Red Cross Red Crescent response
76 Red Cross Red Crescent charter flights sent, 99,000 people have received non-food items, daily water distribution to 300,000 people, 1600 people treated daily, 300 latrines under construction.
11 February 2010
7 Fundamental Principles
Slideshow of Red Cross Red Crescent work in Haiti.
27 January 2010
From the field - Haiti earthquake response
City of Léogâne was completely destroyed by the earthquake. 80-90 % of the buildings have collapsed.
27 January 2010
What is an Emergency Response Unit?
21 Emergency Response Units have been deployed to Haiti from 18 Red Cross Red Crescent National Societies.
23 January 2010
Psycho-social support in field hospital
When a child is living in a disaster, he or she may be traumatized. For the development of the child that can be very difficult.
21 January 2010
Birth in Red Cross field hospital in Haiti
The first Cesarean in the field hospital went well. There are hundreds of patients in need of assistance outside the hospital.
20 January 2010
Solidarity with Haiti: a worldwide response
Red Cross and Red Crescent societies from all continents have been receiving generous contributions from public, corporates and governments to the Red Cross and Red Crescent response in Haiti.
19 January 2010
IFRC disaster response in Haiti
This is the biggest ever Emergency Response Unit deployment to a disaster in one country.
18 January 2010
Emergency health response in Haiti
From the first hours after the earthquake, volunteers of the Haitian Red Cross started to search and rescue the victims and give first aid to the injured.
Haiti earthquake operation page