Haiti Earthquake
Duration: January 12, 2010 to present
Human Impact: More than three million affected, 316,000 people dead
Damages: Major damage in Port-au-Prince and other settlements.
CARE Response: reached 290,000 people with food, clean water, temporary shelter and other services; provided and chlorinated 1.1 million cubic meters of water; built and rehabilitated 2,500 latrines and showers; reached 62,000 people with activities to combat gender-based violence and promote reproductive health; distributed 40,000 school and recreation kits; reached more than 1.8 million people with cholera prevention and outreach program; distributed 20,000 emergency shelter reinforcement kits; delivered 2,550 transitional shelters to house roughly
13,400 people and helped 500 families repair their rural homes.
On January 12, 2010, Haiti experienced one of the worst natural disasters in history. Over three million people were directly affected by the earthquake and suffered major loss of property. Despite the massive devastation and staggering damage, the international community was able to start delivering aid to those affected soon after the earthquake.
A cholera outbreak in October 2010 spread throughout Haiti, resulting in over 426,785 cases and over 6,000 deaths.
Support and assistance has continued, changing its focus from emergency relief to the longer-term work of supporting Haitian communities as they rebuild their country.
As we move into 2012, CARE is empowering women and their families to move beyond survival, and build thriving communities. Read our report.
Field notes from Haiti
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CARE photos from Haiti
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What your donation can do for the people of Haiti
$80 can help provide a newborn kit (receiving blanket, gown, four cloth diapers, four safety pins, two bars of soap and one pair of socks) for ten infants in an emergency.
$19 can provide things like plastic sheeting for temporary shelter and protection for one family during an emergency.
$345 can help provide supplies (chalk, notebooks, pencils and dictionaries) for more than 150 earthquake-affected children in a school in Haiti.
Support emergency relief efforts now.
Documents related to the Haiti emergency
 | Haiti Two Years Later January 4, 2012 (216kb PDF) |
| CARE Haiti Newsletter: One Year After the Earthquake January 14, 2011 (326kb PDF) |
| CARE Haiti newsletter, May 21 (533kb PDF) |
| REPORT: "The way forward: Haiti three months after the earthquake" |
| CARE Haiti newsletter, May 10 (271kb PDF) |
| CARE Haiti newsletter, May 3 (560kb PDF) |
| CARE Haiti newsletter, March 26 (943kb PDF) |
