Available in French
By Caritas Lebanon staff
Our team of three staff from the Caritas Lebanon Migrants’ Center (CLMC) left for a mission to Haiti to offer counselling support to quake survivors. Psycho-social support is not always a priority in an emergency. It is help of utmost importance though. Our mission was to show people [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Haiti quake’
March 10, 2010
Haiti quake: Healing the whole person
March 4, 2010
Haiti Quake: Love thy neighbour
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Mexico knows what it means to be hit by a major earthquake. In 1985, an 8.1 magnitude earthquake struck the country killing 10,000 people and causing major damage to the capital.
Mexico has generously opened its arms to Haiti following the massive earthquake which hit its Latin American neighbour in January.
The people [...]
March 2, 2010
Helping Haiti’s orphans
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“I no longer know how to feed and clothe them”
Before the 12th January earthquake, there were more than 350,000 orphans in Haiti. The disaster has left thousands more children without parents. Here we meet the director of one of the orphanages that Caritas is helping.
By Mathilde Magnier
Lesley Fucand is a survivor. At first [...]
March 1, 2010
Haiti earthquake response a symbol of solidarity
By Oscar Andrés Cardinal Rodríguez Maradiaga, S.D.B.
As President of Caritas Internationalis, I visited Haiti in February to offer solidarity with the people and to take aid from my home country of Honduras on behalf of our supporters.
When I arrived in Port-au-Prince, I was shocked because the tragedy and devastation were even greater than what I [...]
February 22, 2010
Haiti quake: Storm clouds ahead
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By Mathilde Magnier, Caritas Communications Officer, Port-au-Prince
One month after the dramatic earthquake that devastated Port-au-Prince, the coming rainy season presents another major challenge to Caritas and other aid agencies.
The quake killed 217 000 people and left over one million Haitians without shelter. With most quake’s survivors living in overcrowded temporary settlements, crammed [...]
February 18, 2010
Fr Serge B Chadic, Director General of Caritas Haiti addresses Rome conference on Haiti
Speech by Fr Serge B Chadic, Director General of Caritas Haiti
Available in French and Spanish
Rome, 17 February 2010
Brothers and sisters, distinguished participants at this meeting,
Being called upon to address such a distinguished gathering makes me feel humble, and it is with humility that I wish to speak on behalf of Caritas Haiti, CRS, and the [...]
February 15, 2010
Haiti quake: Mourning the dead
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By Mathilde Magnier, Caritas Communications Officer in Port-au-Prince
A month after the earthquake that devastated the country, Haitians remembered their dead with three days of mourning and fasting.
From dust till dawn in Port-au-Prince, the loudspeakers blasted gospel, sermons and prayers in a strange atmosphere of joy, despair and reverence. In this deeply religious country, Catholics, [...]
February 11, 2010
Haiti’s lost children
By Conor O’Loughlin, Communications Officer, Trócaire (Caritas Ireland), in Port-au-Prince
Haiti is not an easy place to be a child. It has the highest rates of infant, under-five and maternal mortality in the Western Hemisphere. Diarrhea, respiratory infections, malaria, tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS are the leading causes of death. Thousands of the country’s schools were ruined in [...]
February 11, 2010
Un mois après le séisme, l’effort continue en Haïti
Mathilde Magnier, Secours Catholique
A quelques jours de l’anniversaire du premier mois du tremblement de terre qui a décimé Haïti en janvier dernier, le gouvernement haïtien a publié des chiffres alarmants sur l’ampleur de la catastrophe dans le pays. Si l’on compte aujourd’hui plus de 230 000 morts, le bilan devrait augmenter rapidement dans les jours [...]
