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A Year of Action

January 12th, 2011, marked the one-year anniversary of the earthquake in Haiti that took almost 300,000 lives and left millions homeless. Over the past year, Haiti saw an indescribable amount of heartache and faced countless challenges. For all those who lost friends, family, and their entire way of life, the earthquakeʼs one-year anniversary was a time for mourning and reflection. However, it was also as much about celebrating life as it was about grieving loss.

In the J/P HRO Pétionville Camp, over the past year more than 50,000 Haitians who lost their homes in the earthquake have lived in tents on what was once a 9-hole-golf course. In the Pétionville Camp, the demonstrations that took place on the anniversary were both about commemoration, and renewal. Hundreds of residents gathered at the J/P HRO Community School for prayer and song. Hundreds of people quickly became thousands as residents marched through camp carrying banners and chanting in unison. From dawn until dusk throughout camp there was singing, dancing, performances, candlelight vigils, and a palpable feeling of incredible perseverance.

At J/P HRO we spent the one-year anniversary in respectful observation and reflection, looking back and taking stock of all our organization has done in Haiti over the past 12 months. We are so proud and grateful to our donors for enabling these accomplishments and for allowing us to enter 2011 with a renewed sense of purpose, encouraged by signs of progress. For instance, the number of displaced people living in tent camps has dropped to 800,000- the first time there are less than 1 million people living in camps since the earthquake. However, we are also combating a deadly cholera epidemic, and millions of Haitians are still struggling without basic shelter, food, water, healthcare, education, or any way to make a living and support their families.

J/P HRO will continue to be a leader in responding to the urgent needs of the Haitian People, while relentlessly pursuing sustainable solutions for development. We believe that emergency relief in Haiti goes hand and glove with economic development and reconstruction. Please read about our accomplishments and support our cause, because when you donate to J/P HRO, you are directly improving the lives of Haitians.

 

YEAR IN REVIEW FACT SHEET

  • Founded immediately after the January 12th earthquake by Sean Penn, J/P HRO is effectively managing five vital programs in areas related to Camp Management, Medical, Rubble Removal Facilitating Community Regeneration, Education, and Emergency Response Operations..
  • J/P HRO manages two Internally Displaced Person (IDP) camps: Pétionville Camp and the adjacent Terrain Boulos Camp. As of January 12th, 2010 these two IDP camps house over 50,000 displaced people.
  • J/P HRO has an in-country team of 15 international long-term staff, hundreds of rotating medical volunteers, and over 200 Haitian national staff including doctors, nurses, electricians, contractors, teachers and translators, community organizers and reconstruction teams.
  • In the past 12 months J/P HRO provided medical treatment to over 75,000 Haitians and delivered 342 babies through our medical program, which consists of two primary health care clinics, a womenʼs clinic, mobile clinics, a 24/7 emergency room, 24/7 maternity care, 24/7 emergency transport, and a 24/7 Cholera Treatment Isolation Unit (CTU).
  • The cholera outbreak reached Port au Prince in October of 2010, and between October 2010 and January 2011 we treated over 140 cases of cholera within our camp, and over 250 cases of cholera from the surrounding neighborhoods at our Cholera Treatment Isolation Unit (CTU). Our medical staff and volunteers deployed throughout Haiti treated thousands of cholera patients and delivered over 100 tons of supplies to cholera treatment facilities. Currently J/P HRO maintains one of the largest in-country inventories of Oral Rehydration Salts, Ringers Lactate, IV tubing, catheters, and water filters to treat an additional 25,000 - 50,000 patients.
  • Our cholera preparedness and response program has earned J/P HRO recognition as one of the most effective Emergency Responders by the Haitian Ministry of Health and International Red Cross. A team of highly trained air, ground, and medical experts are on 24/7 Ready Alert supported by four helicopters in cooperation with the United Nations Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS) and the Government of the Dominican Republic to respond to life saving missions J/P HRO manages each and every day.
  • J/P HRO removed 55,000 cubic meters of rubble and debris from the streets, equaling an average of 25-30 trucks per day from the Delmas 32 area in Port au Prince. J/P has been recognized as an innovative leader in rubble removal and manual demolition, serving as a model for other international organizations working to achieve the same goal.
  • The Pétionville Camp has been recognized as one of the most well managed camps in Port au Prince. While other organizations are shifting away from camp management, J/P HRO remains committed to the residents of the Pétionville Camp and will remain as camp manager until the last resident has been returned to their previous home or relocated to a permanent place of residence.
   


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