name: Medair (Rebuilding) -> Medair (Transitional Shelters/Rebuilding)
notes: Activities by Sectors Shelter & Infrastructure Medair is supporting people in the urban and rural parts of Haiti’s South East Department which have been hit hard by the earthquake, providing people with shelter before and during the rainy/hurricane season. Emergency Relief Medair is working to construct emergency/transitional shelters and rehabilitate existing homes to accommodate approximately 4,500 families (27,000 people) so that they are resettled into secure accommodation as soon as possible and their vulnerability to future disaster is reduced. Medair is helping families to return to the site of their destroyed or seriously damaged homes to live in new transitional shelters. The Medair programme is providing safer shelters for 27,000 people in total and also includes cash-for-work (CFW) opportunities for local labourers. This comprehensive year-long programme has been made possible by private donors and by the generous support of the American people through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). A main objective is to enable families to move out of the insecure and unsanitary camps and back to their former home sites. Once the rubble is cleared from the previously destroyed homesite, with permission from the landowner, Medair can construct a transitional shelter on the site. Camps are mainly in urban areas. In rural locations, the programme enables families to leave their outdoor sleeping sites or the overcrowded homes of host families and to move into safe places of their own. By July 2010, Medair had conducted more than 3,400 thorough assessments of damaged homes and registered the families as beneficiaries of the programme; 671 families were already in safer shelter. Families were identified based on need and vulnerability. The pilot project also included clearing rubble from people’s former home sites to enable them to move back as soon as possible We conducted pilot shelter projects, testing different shelter designs to find an ideal range of options. Construction of transitional shelters in both urban and rural areas has been on-going with mobile work teams. Medair is now constructing two types of transitional shelters for 2,060 households. One is a heavy-duty steel-framed transitional shelter structure, covered with heavy canvas. The frames can be used on a masonry foundation to create a more permanent home in the future. The other type of transitional shelter is timber-framed and built from a kit of construction materials. The timber, treated to resist termites, is imported so as not to add to the local deforestation problem. Other materials are purchased locally. Medair selects either of the two different shelter solutions, depending on the best fit for the size, shape, and location of the property. In addition to transitional shelters, Medair’s programme is also helping repair 2,440 damaged homes, and training people to make the repairs themselves. Annual maintenance of the new shelters will prolong the lives of the structures, using simple techniques that the beneficiaries can learn easily. To stimulate the local economy, Medair is offering temporary employment to local labourers, masons, and carpenters to assist with the construction of the shelters. The paid labourers usually work alongside a volunteer workforce consisting of the homeowner’s family and friends. ------------------------------------------ Haiti > Country Background and Current Challenges On 12 January 2010, an earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale struck the island of Haiti. Aftershocks followed, causing further injury. The quake caused massive destruction to homes and other buildings, in a country already struggling with chronic poverty and the effects of devastating hurricanes in 2008. An estimated three million people have been affected by the earthquake, primarily with the loss of shelter, but also with problems that include a lack of access to water, food, and basic healthcare. Damage to the international airport, the port, and many roads within and outside the capital city hampered the distribution of emergency relief. Current challenges revolve around hurricane season. With hundreds of thousands of people still living in camps, the risks associated with forceful winds and flooding are of great concern for the safety of camp residents living in cramped conditions. About 80 percent of Haiti’s population live in poverty; most Haitians live on USD 2 or less per day. Widespread deforestation–less than 1.5 percent of Haiti’s original tree cover remains intact–has made the country especially vulnerable to erosion and flooding from hurricanes and tropical storms, which typically occur between June to October. -> Activities by Sectors Shelter & Infrastructure Medair is supporting people in the urban and rural parts of Haiti’s South East Department which have been hit hard by the earthquake, providing people with shelter before and during the rainy/hurricane season. Emergency Relief Medair is working to construct emergency/transitional shelters and rehabilitate existing homes to accommodate approximately 4,500 families (27,000 people) so that they are resettled into secure accommodation as soon as possible and their vulnerability to future disaster is reduced. Medair is helping families to return to the site of their destroyed or seriously damaged homes to live in new transitional shelters. The Medair programme is providing safer shelters for 27,000 people in total and also includes cash-for-work (CFW) opportunities for local labourers. This comprehensive year-long programme has been made possible by private donors and by the generous support of the American people through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). A main objective is to enable families to move out of the insecure and unsanitary camps and back to their former home sites. Once the rubble is cleared from the previously destroyed homesite, with permission from the landowner, Medair can construct a transitional shelter on the site. Camps are mainly in urban areas. In rural locations, the programme enables families to leave their outdoor sleeping sites or the overcrowded homes of host families and to move into safe places of their own. By July 2010, Medair had conducted more than 3,400 thorough assessments of damaged homes and registered the families as beneficiaries of the programme; 671 families were already in safer shelter. Families were identified based on need and vulnerability. The pilot project also included clearing rubble from people’s former home sites to enable them to move back as soon as possible We conducted pilot shelter projects, testing different shelter designs to find an ideal range of options. Construction of transitional shelters in both urban and rural areas has been on-going with mobile work teams. Medair is now constructing two types of transitional shelters for 2,060 households. One is a heavy-duty steel-framed transitional shelter structure, covered with heavy canvas. The frames can be used on a masonry foundation to create a more permanent home in the future. The other type of transitional shelter is timber-framed and built from a kit of construction materials. The timber, treated to resist termites, is imported so as not to add to the local deforestation problem. Other materials are purchased locally. Medair selects either of the two different shelter solutions, depending on the best fit for the size, shape, and location of the property. In addition to transitional shelters, Medair’s programme is also helping repair 2,440 damaged homes, and training people to make the repairs themselves. Annual maintenance of the new shelters will prolong the lives of the structures, using simple techniques that the beneficiaries can learn easily. To stimulate the local economy, Medair is offering temporary employment to local labourers, masons, and carpenters to assist with the construction of the shelters. The paid labourers usually work alongside a volunteer workforce consisting of the homeowner’s family and friends. ------------------------------------------ Haiti > Country Background and Current Challenges On 12 January 2010, an earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale struck the island of Haiti. Aftershocks followed, causing further injury. The quake caused massive destruction to homes and other buildings, in a country already struggling with chronic poverty and the effects of devastating hurricanes in 2008. An estimated three million people have been affected by the earthquake, primarily with the loss of shelter, but also with problems that include a lack of access to water, food, and basic healthcare. Damage to the international airport, the port, and many roads within and outside the capital city hampered the distribution of emergency relief. Current challenges revolve around hurricane season. With hundreds of thousands of people still living in camps, the risks associated with forceful winds and flooding are of great concern for the safety of camp residents living in cramped conditions. About 80 percent of Haiti’s population live in poverty; most Haitians live on USD 2 or less per day. Widespread deforestation–less than 1.5 percent of Haiti’s original tree cover remains intact–has made the country especially vulnerable to erosion and flooding from hurricanes and tropical storms, which typically occur between June to October.

address: HQ: Medair, Chemin du Croset 9, CH-1024 Ecublens, Switzerland U.S.: PO Box 4476, Wheaton, IL 60189-4476 -> HQ: Medair, Chemin du Croset 9, CH-1024 Ecublens, Switzerland U.S.: PO Box 4476, Wheaton, IL 60189-4476 HAITI

address: -> HQ: Medair, Chemin du Croset 9, CH-1024 Ecublens, Switzerland U.S.: PO Box 4476, Wheaton, IL 60189-4476
notes: Activities by Sectors Shelter & Infrastructure Medair is supporting people in the urban and rural parts of Haiti’s South East Department which have been hit hard by the earthquake, providing people with shelter before and during the rainy/hurricane season. Emergency Relief Medair is working to construct emergency/transitional shelters and rehabilitate existing homes to accommodate approximately 4,500 families (27,000 people) so that they are resettled into secure accommodation as soon as possible and their vulnerability to future disaster is reduced. Medair is helping families to return to the site of their destroyed or seriously damaged homes to live in new transitional shelters. The Medair programme is providing safer shelters for 27,000 people in total and also includes cash-for-work (CFW) opportunities for local labourers. This comprehensive year-long programme has been made possible by private donors and by the generous support of the American people through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). A main objective is to enable families to move out of the insecure and unsanitary camps and back to their former home sites. Once the rubble is cleared from the previously destroyed homesite, with permission from the landowner, Medair can construct a transitional shelter on the site. Camps are mainly in urban areas. In rural locations, the programme enables families to leave their outdoor sleeping sites or the overcrowded homes of host families and to move into safe places of their own. By July 2010, Medair had conducted more than 3,400 thorough assessments of damaged homes and registered the families as beneficiaries of the programme; 671 families were already in safer shelter. Families were identified based on need and vulnerability. The pilot project also included clearing rubble from people’s former home sites to enable them to move back as soon as possible We conducted pilot shelter projects, testing different shelter designs to find an ideal range of options. Construction of transitional shelters in both urban and rural areas has been on-going with mobile work teams. Medair is now constructing two types of transitional shelters for 2,060 households. One is a heavy-duty steel-framed transitional shelter structure, covered with heavy canvas. The frames can be used on a masonry foundation to create a more permanent home in the future. The other type of transitional shelter is timber-framed and built from a kit of construction materials. The timber, treated to resist termites, is imported so as not to add to the local deforestation problem. Other materials are purchased locally. Medair selects either of the two different shelter solutions, depending on the best fit for the size, shape, and location of the property. In addition to transitional shelters, Medair’s programme is also helping repair 2,440 damaged homes, and training people to make the repairs themselves. Annual maintenance of the new shelters will prolong the lives of the structures, using simple techniques that the beneficiaries can learn easily. To stimulate the local economy, Medair is offering temporary employment to local labourers, masons, and carpenters to assist with the construction of the shelters. The paid labourers usually work alongside a volunteer workforce consisting of the homeowner’s family and friends. ---------- Haiti > Country Background and Current Challenges On 12 January 2010, an earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale struck the island of Haiti. Aftershocks followed, causing further injury. The quake caused massive destruction to homes and other buildings, in a country already struggling with chronic poverty and the effects of devastating hurricanes in 2008. An estimated three million people have been affected by the earthquake, primarily with the loss of shelter, but also with problems that include a lack of access to water, food, and basic healthcare. Damage to the international airport, the port, and many roads within and outside the capital city hampered the distribution of emergency relief. Current challenges revolve around hurricane season. With hundreds of thousands of people still living in camps, the risks associated with forceful winds and flooding are of great concern for the safety of camp residents living in cramped conditions. About 80 percent of Haiti’s population live in poverty; most Haitians live on USD 2 or less per day. Widespread deforestation–less than 1.5 percent of Haiti’s original tree cover remains intact–has made the country especially vulnerable to erosion and flooding from hurricanes and tropical storms, which typically occur between June to October. -> Activities by Sectors Shelter & Infrastructure Medair is supporting people in the urban and rural parts of Haiti’s South East Department which have been hit hard by the earthquake, providing people with shelter before and during the rainy/hurricane season. Emergency Relief Medair is working to construct emergency/transitional shelters and rehabilitate existing homes to accommodate approximately 4,500 families (27,000 people) so that they are resettled into secure accommodation as soon as possible and their vulnerability to future disaster is reduced. Medair is helping families to return to the site of their destroyed or seriously damaged homes to live in new transitional shelters. The Medair programme is providing safer shelters for 27,000 people in total and also includes cash-for-work (CFW) opportunities for local labourers. This comprehensive year-long programme has been made possible by private donors and by the generous support of the American people through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). A main objective is to enable families to move out of the insecure and unsanitary camps and back to their former home sites. Once the rubble is cleared from the previously destroyed homesite, with permission from the landowner, Medair can construct a transitional shelter on the site. Camps are mainly in urban areas. In rural locations, the programme enables families to leave their outdoor sleeping sites or the overcrowded homes of host families and to move into safe places of their own. By July 2010, Medair had conducted more than 3,400 thorough assessments of damaged homes and registered the families as beneficiaries of the programme; 671 families were already in safer shelter. Families were identified based on need and vulnerability. The pilot project also included clearing rubble from people’s former home sites to enable them to move back as soon as possible We conducted pilot shelter projects, testing different shelter designs to find an ideal range of options. Construction of transitional shelters in both urban and rural areas has been on-going with mobile work teams. Medair is now constructing two types of transitional shelters for 2,060 households. One is a heavy-duty steel-framed transitional shelter structure, covered with heavy canvas. The frames can be used on a masonry foundation to create a more permanent home in the future. The other type of transitional shelter is timber-framed and built from a kit of construction materials. The timber, treated to resist termites, is imported so as not to add to the local deforestation problem. Other materials are purchased locally. Medair selects either of the two different shelter solutions, depending on the best fit for the size, shape, and location of the property. In addition to transitional shelters, Medair’s programme is also helping repair 2,440 damaged homes, and training people to make the repairs themselves. Annual maintenance of the new shelters will prolong the lives of the structures, using simple techniques that the beneficiaries can learn easily. To stimulate the local economy, Medair is offering temporary employment to local labourers, masons, and carpenters to assist with the construction of the shelters. The paid labourers usually work alongside a volunteer workforce consisting of the homeowner’s family and friends. ------------------------------------------ Haiti > Country Background and Current Challenges On 12 January 2010, an earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale struck the island of Haiti. Aftershocks followed, causing further injury. The quake caused massive destruction to homes and other buildings, in a country already struggling with chronic poverty and the effects of devastating hurricanes in 2008. An estimated three million people have been affected by the earthquake, primarily with the loss of shelter, but also with problems that include a lack of access to water, food, and basic healthcare. Damage to the international airport, the port, and many roads within and outside the capital city hampered the distribution of emergency relief. Current challenges revolve around hurricane season. With hundreds of thousands of people still living in camps, the risks associated with forceful winds and flooding are of great concern for the safety of camp residents living in cramped conditions. About 80 percent of Haiti’s population live in poverty; most Haitians live on USD 2 or less per day. Widespread deforestation–less than 1.5 percent of Haiti’s original tree cover remains intact–has made the country especially vulnerable to erosion and flooding from hurricanes and tropical storms, which typically occur between June to October.

region: Sud-East -> Sud-Est

town: -> Jacmel
name: Medair -> Medair (Rebuilding)
notes: -> Activities by Sectors Shelter & Infrastructure Medair is supporting people in the urban and rural parts of Haiti’s South East Department which have been hit hard by the earthquake, providing people with shelter before and during the rainy/hurricane season. Emergency Relief Medair is working to construct emergency/transitional shelters and rehabilitate existing homes to accommodate approximately 4,500 families (27,000 people) so that they are resettled into secure accommodation as soon as possible and their vulnerability to future disaster is reduced. Medair is helping families to return to the site of their destroyed or seriously damaged homes to live in new transitional shelters. The Medair programme is providing safer shelters for 27,000 people in total and also includes cash-for-work (CFW) opportunities for local labourers. This comprehensive year-long programme has been made possible by private donors and by the generous support of the American people through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). A main objective is to enable families to move out of the insecure and unsanitary camps and back to their former home sites. Once the rubble is cleared from the previously destroyed homesite, with permission from the landowner, Medair can construct a transitional shelter on the site. Camps are mainly in urban areas. In rural locations, the programme enables families to leave their outdoor sleeping sites or the overcrowded homes of host families and to move into safe places of their own. By July 2010, Medair had conducted more than 3,400 thorough assessments of damaged homes and registered the families as beneficiaries of the programme; 671 families were already in safer shelter. Families were identified based on need and vulnerability. The pilot project also included clearing rubble from people’s former home sites to enable them to move back as soon as possible We conducted pilot shelter projects, testing different shelter designs to find an ideal range of options. Construction of transitional shelters in both urban and rural areas has been on-going with mobile work teams. Medair is now constructing two types of transitional shelters for 2,060 households. One is a heavy-duty steel-framed transitional shelter structure, covered with heavy canvas. The frames can be used on a masonry foundation to create a more permanent home in the future. The other type of transitional shelter is timber-framed and built from a kit of construction materials. The timber, treated to resist termites, is imported so as not to add to the local deforestation problem. Other materials are purchased locally. Medair selects either of the two different shelter solutions, depending on the best fit for the size, shape, and location of the property. In addition to transitional shelters, Medair’s programme is also helping repair 2,440 damaged homes, and training people to make the repairs themselves. Annual maintenance of the new shelters will prolong the lives of the structures, using simple techniques that the beneficiaries can learn easily. To stimulate the local economy, Medair is offering temporary employment to local labourers, masons, and carpenters to assist with the construction of the shelters. The paid labourers usually work alongside a volunteer workforce consisting of the homeowner’s family and friends. ---------- Haiti > Country Background and Current Challenges On 12 January 2010, an earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale struck the island of Haiti. Aftershocks followed, causing further injury. The quake caused massive destruction to homes and other buildings, in a country already struggling with chronic poverty and the effects of devastating hurricanes in 2008. An estimated three million people have been affected by the earthquake, primarily with the loss of shelter, but also with problems that include a lack of access to water, food, and basic healthcare. Damage to the international airport, the port, and many roads within and outside the capital city hampered the distribution of emergency relief. Current challenges revolve around hurricane season. With hundreds of thousands of people still living in camps, the risks associated with forceful winds and flooding are of great concern for the safety of camp residents living in cramped conditions. About 80 percent of Haiti’s population live in poverty; most Haitians live on USD 2 or less per day. Widespread deforestation–less than 1.5 percent of Haiti’s original tree cover remains intact–has made the country especially vulnerable to erosion and flooding from hurricanes and tropical storms, which typically occur between June to October.
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region: -> Sud-East
mission: -> from website: Haiti > Programme Description 1. How long has Medair been in the country? We first arrived in Haiti on 17 January 2010, five days after the earthquake. An expert team—including an architect, logistics expert, communication officer, and an emergency response manager—carried out an emergency response assessment in Port-au-Prince and in Haiti’s South East Department. Medair quickly initiated a pilot programme in Jacmel and soon developed it into a large-scale response. 2. What is Medair doing in the country? Medair’s main focus is to provide shelter solutions that help people resettle and resume their normal livelihoods. We are working as quickly as possible to provide transitional shelters to homeless families and those forced to return to live in unsafe structures, to keep shelter from the rains. In total, the Medair programme will provide safer shelters for 4,500 households (27,000 people), and includes cash-for-work (CFW) opportunities for local labourers. This comprehensive year-long programme has been made possible by private donors and by the generous support of the American people through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Medair has worked in close coordination with local government and other agencies to implement a comprehensive shelter programme that aligns with the Haitian National Shelter Strategy, which is to use transitional shelters. 3. Where are we working? Medair is working in Jacmel in the South East Department, the fourth largest city in Haiti. About 78,480 out of Jacmel Commune’s 148,940 inhabitants have been affected by the earthquake. We have established a good working relationship with the Town Hall, and are actively participating in the local Shelter Cluster, which coordinates the emergency response. In Jacmel town, the Directorate of Civil Protection estimated that around 80 percent of the buildings were damaged by the earthquake and that 90 percent of the population has been affected in some way. The earthquake damage centred primarily on three of the less affluent areas of the city. Many large structures such as schools were irreparably damaged, and the force was strong enough to also collapse up to three-story reinforced concrete houses. Medair is working in both urban and rural areas of Haiti’s South East District, constructing transitional shelters. In the rural areas, houses were significantly sub-standard even before the earthquake. Rural areas are difficult to access, as roads other than the main highway quickly become dirt tracks, winding their way up the hills and mountains surrounding the city of Jacmel. It can typically take two hours walking from the road to reach rural communities. 4. How many people are working for Medair in Haiti? Medair employs approximately 10 internationally recruited staff (IRS) and 150 nationally recruited staff (NRS) in Haiti.