Haiti Releif Efforts Update
  

Report on Haiti Assistance Program

Signs of progress can be seen throughout Haiti after the devastating magnitude 7 earthquake, with ongoing food and water needs largely being met, tarps and tents distributed to nearly all of those left homeless, and Haitians beginning to rebuild their lives and their livelihoods.

The crisis is far from over, and the needs in Haiti remain great, but significant progress has been made, thanks to the generous donations made to the American Red Cross.

The American Red Cross has received approximately $409 million (as of April 6, 2010) for Haiti relief and recovery efforts. In three months, $111 million has already been spent

Distribution:

•       Handed out tarps, tents and shelter kits to nearly 373,000people.

•       Provided relief items for 400,000 people.

•       Distributed 60 million liters of clean drinking water.

•       Built more than 1,300 latrines.

•       Treated more than 86,000 people at Red Cross hospitals or mobile clinics.

•       Helped vaccinate more than 152,000 people against deadly diseases.

•       Coordinated the shipment of more than 2,100 units of blood to medical facilities in Haiti.

•       Registered more than 28,400 people on its family linking Web site.

•       Deployed more than 900 responders to Haiti, including 165 from the American Red Cross.

 Looking Ahead:

 Throughout the next three to five years, the American Red Cross will continue to help families and communities recover from Haiti’s devastating earthquake. The American Red Cross expects to spend

approximately $200 million to meet the survivors’ immediate needs—mostly in the first 12 months following the earthquake. The remainder of the funds raised, also approximately $200 million, will be for long term recovery.