Haiti Earthquake - World Vision Canada Response 2010

On January 12 2010 a massive earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale rocked Port-au-Prince the capital of the impoverished Caribbean nation of Haiti. It is estimated that up to 3 000 000 people have been affected by the disaster either through injury or through loss of access to life-sustaining necessities such as food water sanitation services and shelter. With CIDA support World Vision is helping to meet the immediate life-saving needs of earthquake-affected people in the Canapé Vert and lower Pétionville neighbourhoods of Port-au-Prince. In coordination with other actors involved in the overall humanitarian response World Vision is providing much-needed support to beneficiaries in the areas of emergency shelter distribution of non-food items water and sanitation and protection for vulnerable segments of society particularly children.