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Continued investment in Haiti essential to break cycle of poverty and disaster vulnerability
– As country marks 5-year anniversary of Haiti earthquake
9 January 2014, Port-au-Prince, Haiti:
Continued investment, especially in children and young people, is needed in Haiti, 5 years after the deadly earthquake reduced it to rubble, says child rights and humanitarian organisation Plan International.
On 12 January, 2010, the poorest country in the western hemisphere was struck with a 7.0 magnitude earthquake near its capital Port-au-Prince, affecting 3.5 million people, killing an estimated 220,000 people and destroying or damaging 4,000 schools*.

Five years on, the landscape is very different.

Now, most of the estimated 19 million cubic metres of rubble generated by the earthquake is gone. Over 1 million people – some 10% of the entire population of Haiti – made homeless by the earthquake have been rehoused after living in camps since the earthquake.

Roads, especially in Port-au-Prince, have been repaired and many paved for the first time. Houses damaged by the earthquake have been rebuilt and small businesses have multiplied. Several international standard hotels and large supermarkets have also been constructed.

Plan was at the forefront of the emergency response, rebuilding schools and setting up child-friendly spaces, to ensure children were able to access psychosocial support in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake…