Two years after the disaster, Haiti still needs help.
Spain, January 2012.- on January 12 were fulfilled two years of the earthquake of much of the territory of Haiti, destroying 65% of the buildings in the capital, Port-au-Prince, as well as much of its infrastructure and services, to claim the lives of more than 200,000 people in 2010, and leaving more than one and a half million people homeless.
Two years later, the ruin and desolation are still forming part of the landscape of the capital and nearly 500,000 people are still living in camps for displaced persons. More than 80% of the population have no access to drinking water, and health; public buildings are destroyed. Have still not been fixed most of the networks sewage and electricity, and epidemics due the lack of health and hygiene conditions are a constant threat to the Haitians.
The political situation, administrative chaos and the fact that has yet to even half of the promised official aid Haiti, have led to the reconstruction of Haiti has only just begun.
Thousands of Haitians survives with the help of non-governmental organizations, although some have been abandoning the area to decline donations.
Messengers of peace has worked in Haiti since the day after the earthquake, to meet the needs of children, elderly and homeless families. Among the many projects carried out by the NGO in 24 months, emphasizes attention in camps for the displaced, the construction of housing, community facilities, and health and hygiene infrastructure (showers, toilets, lighting, electric generators, wells, purification of water, etc.). Messengers of peace, also supplies food, materials, and medical care to the population also has equipped several schools and toy libraries and maintains three canteens, and has contributed to the rehabilitation and improvement of care for patients of the Mental Hospital in Port-au-Prince. It has also opened a day centre for elderly people with capacity for 100 seats, which serve elderly people living alone after the earthquake, and maintains two orphanages hosting 350 children. In rural areas has created a system of microenterprise agricultural and livestock. Other activities undertaken in Haiti by messengers of peace have been sending more than 1,000 tonnes of medicines, health and essential material, and the moved from Spain of aid workers and medical teams (doctors and nurses) to meet wounded and sick in Haitian hospitals, social centres and various camps.
more than 15,000 people benefit daily from the activity of messengers of peace in Haiti.
The commitment of messengers of peace in Haiti will continue as the population still need help. During 2012 will continue serving the population of the camps, building new homes and infrastructure, and sending medical aid and aid workers. It has also planned the creation and maintenance of new school canteens in different parts of the country and the maintenance of the attention of those who are already in operation. Finally, one of the great challenges of the NGO in 2012 will be the full equipment and implementation of a home school for 200 minor orphans or social risk and its maintenance, the educational part, both the accommodation and meals for pupils in boarding.
Messengers of peace: Accounts help Haiti
Santander: 0049 0001 52 24 10 10 10 10
Bankia: 2038 1753 44 60 00 06 50 69
important: the Director General of messengers of peace, the Leonese Vicente Alvarez Ambrinos, is found in Haiti, along with other cooperating and religious Spaniards from can to meet the media at the phone 00 509 39 36 41 95 (the time difference of) (Haiti with Spain is 6 hours less there).
The Association messengers of peace is an NGO declared of public utility, which was founded in 1963 by father Ãngel GarcÃa, who has since chairs.
It is present in Spain and in 50 countries in the world, developing social activities focusing on the protection of children, care for elderly and other vulnerable social sectors such as physical and psychic disabled persons, women victims of domestic violence, as well as support for the development of communities. In addition, it carries out international cooperation programmes focused on achievements in the medium and long term, and also attends demands for urgent humanitarian aid for countries that have suffered natural disasters or through moments of particular difficulty.
This NGO has received numerous awards for his work, including the Prince of Asturias Award of Concord, the Gran Cruz de Oro the Civil order of Social solidarity, or the award of the Mondiale Alleanza per the Pace. Messengers of peace has special consultative status to the Economic Council and Social of the United Nations.
