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A month after earthquake, ACF aid reaches more than 100,000 people.

sainte-marie PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI— Action Against Hunger | ACF International has provided emergency services in clean water, nutrition, sanitation, and hygiene to more than 100,000 people since the earthquake devastated the Haitian capital last month. The humanitarian organization has also expanded its current operations in Port de Paix and Gonaives, cities that have experienced an influx of hundreds of thousands of earthquake survivors fleeing the capital.

Update from Port-au-Prince

Clean water: Action Against Hunger has installed 41 large water reservoirs (aka “bladder tanks”) and five water treatment stations in hard-hit neighborhoods across Port-au-Prince that provide daily clean drinking water access to nearly 70,000 people.
Sanitation: The humanitarian agency is constructing 100 latrines equipped with hand-washing stations and has mobilized 60 staff members to conduct public awareness campaigns in displacement camps on best hygiene practices in emergency settings.
Nutrition Services: A dozen makeshift tents are now operational in Port-au-Prince, providing nearly 500 lactating mothers and their young children with a safe setting for breastfeeding, as well as counseling and psycho-social support, each day. The centers also provide feedings to forty infants whose mothers were killed or injured in the earthquake.
Distributions: Since the earthquake, Action Against Hunger has distributed 62 tons of high-protein BP5 biscuits, 3,600 blankets, and more than 2,000 emergency kits containing plastic sheeting, soap, buckets, and other essential items. Some 35,000 people have benefited from Action Against Hunger’s distributions.

Strengthening programs in surrounding areas

In response to the arrival of an estimated 500,000 survivors from Port-au-Prince who have taken refuge with families in nearby cities of Gonaives and Port de Paix, Action Against Hunger has scaled up programs in nutrition, health, clean water, and sanitation already underway prior to the earthquake. Having run programs in these cities since 2001, the organization is focused on the treatment of severely malnourished children; the installation of clean drinking water stations, latrines, and other sanitation facilities; and the provision of technical and logistical support for local health centers and hospitals.

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