The Haiti Lives exhibition closed today. Oxfam would like to thank everyone who came by to visit the exhibition and gave such great feedback.   We are also very grateful to the Powerscourt Townhouse Centre for their generous support.

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We are looking into displaying the exhibition in more venues, and will let you know if new showings are arranged.

The Oxfamhome DIY auction is still ongoing – you can submit bids for the amazing customised furniture until mid August.

The weekly newsletter LeCool, which finds cutting-edge events in various major cities, has nominated Oxfam’s Haiti Lives exhibition as one of this week’s picks.   The exhibition closes tomorrow, so be sure to get down to the Powerscourt Townhouse in Dublin to see it before it goes.  You’ll also be able to see and bid on the Oxfamhome DIY furniture (also recommended by LeCool) which is on display in the exhibition space.

Bids on the unique designer-customised furniture will be accepted until mid August.

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RTE Six One News featured Oxfam’s Haiti Lives exhibition in a report on the launch night.  Click the image to watch the video clip.

You can also see a slideshow of pictures from the exhibition on the Irish Times website.

The Haiti Lives Exhibition is open to the public in the Powerscourt Townhouse Centre in Dublin 2, and runs until July 31st.

Oxfam Ireland is pleased to present Haiti Lives – a photography exhibition inspired by the unyielding spirit of the Haitian people. Launching in Powerscourt Townhouse on Wednesday 30^th of June to coincide with the 6 month anniversary since the disaster, the exhibition captures their daily lives in the aftermath of January 2010’s devastating earthquake.

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A date for your diary: Oxfam’s ‘Haiti Lives’ photography exhibition, showing beautiful and inspiring images taken by Oxfam’s photographers in Haiti, is opening next week on Friday June 30th.

The exhibition runs until  July 31st 2010, in the Powerscourt Townhouse Centre in Dublin’s city centre, and is free to enter.

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Plans urgently needed to prepare earthquake survivors for hurricane season

Port-au-Prince: Thousands of earthquake survivors living in camps are vulnerable to landslides and flooding due to hurricanes, according to an evaluation of camp sites carried out by international agency Oxfam. With the hurricane season beginning today, the Haitian government must urgently implement a public communications campaign to inform people about hurricane risks and how to respond in a weather emergency.

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25 teams totaling 620 people have cleared 20,000 metres of drainage channel in 28 days. Photo: Jane Beesley/Oxfam

Cite Soleil has a bad reputation. It’s a no-go area. But going there turned out to be a real privilege for Jane Beesley.

Cite Soleil is a huge shanty town on the edge, in more ways than one, of Port au Prince. Not many outsiders visit and few organisations work there. After the earthquake, 300km of the city’s drainage channels were blocked, and with the rapidly approaching hurricane season, emergency action was called for. In Cite Soleil Oxfam has been supporting Disaster Waste Recovery (DWR) to work with the local community to unblock one of the city’s key channels. Much of the channel clearage has relied on intense labour – but that has meant jobs where few or no jobs were available: in 28 days, 25 teams totaling 620 people have cleared 20,000 metres of drainage channel.

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Carlos Mansilla and a camp resident using Oxfam water facilities at Corail resettlement camp, Port au Prince. Photo: Ana Caistor Arendar

Ana Caistor Arendar visits the Corail re-settlement camp just outside Port au Prince, where Oxfam’s water and sanitation programme is providing essential services to thousands of people.

The humidity in Haiti is intense. Along with the gathering clouds, it signals the coming storms as the rainy season begins in earnest here. It’s really difficult to know exactly how many people have been left homeless by the 12 January earthquake – there is an official figure of 1.3 million but unofficially people think as many as 2 million people might be living in settlements in and around the capital, Port au Prince. For these people the rain means added misery as the fear of landslides and flooding in the camps threatens to cause even greater suffering and loss of life.

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Agencies call for upholding of standards to protect vulnerable people

PORT-AU-PRINCE: International aid agencies Oxfam, World Vision and CARE urge the Haitian government to ensure new camps are ready to receive earthquake victims before more evacuations take place. The call comes as agencies rush to prepare a new site in time for people who must be relocated due to the high risks of mudslides and other disasters in their current locations when the rainy seasons begins.

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