The Red Cross says it has provided homes to more than 130,000 people. But the actual number of permanent homes the group has built in all of Haiti: six. After the earthquake, Red Cross CEO Gail McGovern unveiled ambitious plans to “develop brand-new communities.” None has ever been built.
(CNN) Ten years ago today a massive earthquake struck Haiti, transforming capital city Port-au-Prince into a nightmare in seconds. Some 70,000 people would be buried within a week's time. The devastating force of the 7.0 quake on January 12, 2010, split the country's history into a before, and an after.
Our revenue from our Red Cross shops increased by $1.554 million to $31.398 million. Revenue from Non-Government Grants also increased by $0.317 million to $6.269 million.
Thanks to generous donations to the American Red Cross, more than 4.5 million Haitians have been helped since the earthquake. The American Red Cross published this complete financial breakdown of the $490 million received for Haiti earthquake relief and recovery.
Since the earthquake, the United States has made available over $5.1 billion for assistance to Haiti to support life-saving post-disaster relief as well as longer-term recovery, reconstruction, and development programs.
The U.S. has been Haiti's largest donor since 1973. Between FY 1995 and FY 2003, the U.S. contributed more than $850 million in assistance to Haiti. Since 2004, the U.S. has provided over $600 million for improving governance, security, the rule of law, economic recovery, and critical human needs.
More than 300,000 people were killed, several hundred thousand were injured and nearly 1.5 million were left homeless when magnitude 7 earthquake hit Haiti on Jan. 12, 2010. Ten years later, Haiti hasn't recovered from this disaster, despite billions of dollars being spent in the country.
Immediately after a 7.0 earthquake struck Haiti in 2010, the American people opened their hearts and donated generously to help save lives. Thanks to donations, Red Cross teams did just that—providing food, water, medical care, emergency shelter, cash grants, and other essentials to millions of people.
In the three years since the earthquake first hit Haiti in 2010, the Canadian Red Cross has been an active participant in emergency relief and recovery efforts. The Red Cross has distributed more than 14,400 tons of supplies to the nation and supported nearly five million Haitians in need.
Two months after his defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte's colonial forces, Jean-Jacques Dessalines proclaims the independence of Saint-Domingue, renaming it Haiti after its original Arawak name. In 1791, a slave revolt erupted on the French colony, and Toussaint-Louverture, a former slave, took control of the rebels.
The 2010 Haiti earthquake (French: Séisme de 2010 à Haïti; Haitian Creole: Tranblemanntè 12 janvye 2010 nan peyi Ayiti) was a catastrophic magnitude 7.0 Mw earthquake, with an epicenter near the town of Léogâne (Ouest) and approximately 25 kilometres (16 mi) west of Port-au-Prince, Haiti's capital.
Haiti is in the western one-third of the island of Hispaniola between the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean. This small, tropical country is west of the Dominican Republic and is south of the island of Cuba. The land is mountainous.
Fast facts: 2010 Haiti earthquakeAt least 300,000 people were injured. 5 million people were displaced. Nearly 4,000 schools were damaged or destroyed. At the time of the quake, 70% of the population lived below the poverty line.
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Ten years and billions of dollars of aid later, Haiti is still rebuilding itself from one of the deadliest earthquakes in history and the devastation it caused. Recovery has been slow and uneven. The 7.0 magnitude quake on Jan.
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - The cost of rebuilding impoverished Haiti after last month's catastrophic earthquake could reach nearly $14 billion, making it proportionately the most destructive natural disaster in modern times, economists at the Inter-American Development Bank said on Tuesday.
Despite any shortcomings, the Red Cross is a massive first-response organization that remains worthy of donations, says Daniel Borochoff, president and founder of Charity Watch, which rates relief organizations and gives the Red Cross a B+.
The World Bank provided extra funding of $100 million to support recovery and reconstruction in Haiti. UNICEF made an emergency appeal for assistance to aid the victims. The World Health Organization sent a "12-member team of health and logistics experts."
The Red Cross is proud that an average of 90 cents of every dollar we spend is invested in delivering care and comfort to those in need. The Red Cross is proud that an average of 90 cents of every dollar we spend is invested in delivering care and comfort to those in need.
The multi-storey concrete buildings that made up much of Port-au-Prince proved to be death traps when the earthquake struck. “The buildings were brittle and had no flexibility, breaking catastrophically when the earthquake struck,” says Ian Main, a seismologist at the University of Edinburgh, UK.
In this case, the Caribbean plate is moving east in relation to the North American plate. Large earthquakes frequently occur on these plate boundaries. The Caribbean plate has been moving about a quarter of an inch per year, relative to the North American plate. But the two plates don't simply glide past one another.
Although there has been $13 billion in aid money given to Haiti after the 2010 earthquake, many people still live in bad conditions.
Waves up to three metres high hit sections of the nation's coastline. In addition to smashing buildings and killing more than 200,000 people, Haiti's devastating 12 January earthquake produced two 3-metre tsunamis, scientists announced on 24 February at a meeting in Portland, Oregon.
Poor infrastructure, deforestation and failure to prepare for earthquakes and storms put the island at very high risk.
Haiti is one of poorest countries in the Western Hemisphere. Eighty percent of residents live in poverty, according to the CIA World Factbook. Haiti is one of the most densely populated and least developed countries in the Western Hemisphere.
"An earthquake that's very deep – that energy has a chance to go through the Earth's crust before reaching the Earth's surface and possibly not causing as much shaking of the ground." Unofficial USGS reports suggest the shaking lasted anywhere from 35 seconds to up to a minute, Bedwell said.
For starters, Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. Before the quake, the country had a population just over nine million, of those, approximately seven million lived on two dollars a day or less. The labor force is largely based on agriculture, mostly small-scale subsistence farmers.
Recovery from the January earthquake that is believed to have killed hundreds of thousands of Haitians and left even more homeless could cost up to $14 billion, according to Latin America's main development bank.
