Oxfam calling on the Haitian Government to implement a comprehensive reconstruction plan to rebuild the country.

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Oxfam’s Caroline Gluck reports from the island nation still struggling to recover from the devastating impact of the 2010 earthquake…

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One year on from the January 2010 earthquake in Haiti, Oxfam is working on a response to a cholera outbreak, as well as ongoing reconstruction projects.

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Photos from Oxfam New Zealand

The editorial in today’s Irish Times, on Haiti a year after the earthquake, quotes the Oxfam report ‘From Relief to Recovery’. The piece quotes Oxfam saying “it is difficult to be optimistic about progress. Haiti remains a human tragedy of colossal proportions, still desperately in need of international aid and your donations.”

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Aid agency calls on Haitian government and donors to break logjam and start reconstruction

PORT-AU-PRINCE – In a report released today, international agency Oxfam called on the Haitian authorities, with support from the international community, to move forward on plans to start rebuilding the shattered country and enable close to one million people still living in tents and under tarpaulins to resettle or return home.

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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 this Wednesday, January 5th.

The exhibition runs until  January 31st, in the Waterfront Hall in Belfast, and is free to enter.

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PORT-AU-PRINCE – International agency Oxfam has doubled its cholera response since the first cases were confirmed in October in Haiti. Oxfam’s water, sanitation and hygiene education programs are now reaching over 700,000 people in the capital Port-au-Prince, Artibonite in central Haiti, and Cap Haitien in northern Hait

“We are still coming across small villages where people are begging us to help stop this disease. There is not a single toilet or latrine in many of these rural villages. People are desperate to learn the basic hygiene measures that will keep their families safe,” said Paula Brennan, cholera response manager for Oxfam in Artibonite, Haiti.

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