• Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere
• Population is more than 9 million
• Estimated 230,000 casualties
• Estimated 300,000 injuries
• Up to 1.5 million people left homeless
• 1300 spontaneous settlements (tent camps) have been set up
• 190,000 houses collapsed or were badly damaged and 100,000 were completely destroyed.
• 60 percent of government buildings were destroyed including the Presidential Palace, the Parliament, and the city’s main Cathedral.
• 80 percent of schools in Port-au-Prince were either destroyed or damaged and forced to close.
• Eight hospitals were totally destroyed and 22 others seriously damaged and need to be rebuilt.
• The total value of damage and losses caused by the earthquake is estimated at US$7.8 billion.
• The earthquake reduced Haiti’s gross domestic product by 70 percent

Immediately following the disaster, cbm’s emergency response focused on supporting our local partners.

Together, we provided medical care to children and adults in hospitals and community settings and we established Child Day Care Centres so children with and without a disability had a safe place to gather, play, learn, and overcome the traumatic experience of and after the disaster.Now that the emergency phase is over, cbm is focusing its programming efforts in five core areas:

• Health care
• Inclusive education and child protection
• Advocacy and accessibility
• Community Based Rehabilitation (CBR)
• Disaster preparedness

To date 6.4 MIL dollars have been pledged to cbm International for earthquake recovery programs.

Your gifts have helped more than 73,000 earthquake survivors.

Your gifts have provided more than 126,000 medical treatments in hospitals, tents and community settings.

Your gifts also supported the distribution of:
10,000 pairs of glasses
2,000 assistive devices
900 cataract surgeries
40 glaucoma surgeries
300 tarps
260 mattresses
50 tents

• Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere
• Population is more than 9 million
• Estimated 230,000 casualties
• Estimated 300,000 injuries
• Up to 1.5 million people left homeless
• 1300 spontaneous settlements (tent camps) have been set up
• 190,000 houses collapsed or were badly damaged and 100,000 were completely destroyed.
• 60 percent of government buildings were destroyed including the Presidential Palace, the Parliament, and the city’s main Cathedral.
• 80 percent of schools in Port-au-Prince were either destroyed or damaged and forced to close.
• Eight hospitals were totally destroyed and 22 others seriously damaged and need to be rebuilt.
• The total value of damage and losses caused by the earthquake is estimated at US$7.8 billion.
• The earthquake reduced Haiti’s gross domestic product by 70 percent