World Vision feeds 1,400 school children each week day at a lunch program in the Corail camp. Read story. |
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Augustine Mucllloue and her four-year-old daughter, Thusie, are delighted with the transitional home World Vision built for them in the Corail camp. Read story. |
Single mother Marseille Saintulise rejoices after receiving the keys to the first home she’s ever owned. She leaves behind the tent she’s occupied with her son since the quake. |
Marceline Philibert and her five-year-old daughter, Sabin, sit happily outside their new World Vision-built home. |
Medical staff at a baby friendly space measure a child’s upper arm to check nutritional status. Green is good, while yellow and red indicate malnutrition. Read story. |
World Vision health manager Dr. Estrella Serrano watches as a baby is weighed at a baby friendly space, a clinic for babies and pregnant moms. |
A doctor examines a child at a baby-friendly space in Parc Accra, one of the scores of makeshift camps that house more than 1 million people left homeless by the quake. |
Twelve-year-old Ivillia Moxima visits a World Vision baby friendly space for advice on the health of her two-year-old niece. Read story. |
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A week after Nanette and her children moved to Corail Cesselesse, they planted the first mango tree—a symbol of hope in an otherwise barren land. World Vision is erecting transitional shelters for those in danger of floods from seasonal rains. April 19 Download |
New arrivals at Corail Cesselesse receive food aid from the World Food Programme, distributed by World Vision. We also provided hygiene and sanitary products. These people were living on Petitionville Golf Course last week, a prime candidate for flooding. April 19 Download |
Lebon Belloh's job as a World Vision humanitarian protection monitor is to make sure that standards at the transitional camp Corail Cesselesse are up to scratch. Every morning, he spends an hour walking through the camp, collecting feedback. Were people safe last night? Dry? Why or why not? April 19 Download |
Lebon Belloh makes his rounds (see previous caption). April 19 Download |
Life at the Corail Cesselesse transitional camp. Around 100 families have been moving here every day since the camp opened on April 10, living in temporary tent shelters. Sturdy shelters are being built on neighboring land. April 19 Download |
Clothes are hung out to dry as the seasonal downpour is so strong, tents sometimes leak. Still, it's an improvement from the place this family was living, at risk for floods. And there's the promise of a sturdy shelter for them, to be built on neighboring land. April 19 Download |
A small crew from World Vision and the International Organization for Migration wrestles with the first of more than 1,300 tents to go up in Corail Cesselesse, the government of Haiti's transitional land for relocation of people at risk of flood conditions. Aid agencies are under pressure to prepare the land at short notice. April 9 Download |
Wrestling with tents; see previous caption. April 9 Download |
Meritane Priniold (foreground) and her twins receive checkups at a World Vision Mothers' Club in Parc Acra. Meritane smiles when told that her babies, born four days after the quake, are healthy. But her own health is weak because she eats only once a day. April 5 Download |
The Mothers' Clubs are hosted by World Vision with health workers Mislie (in blue) and Marie (in brown and white). In the morning, they conduct household visits. In the afternoon, they provide a variety of activities for babies of different ages, as well as a baby-friendly breastfeeding group. April 5 Download |
A World Vision staff nurse examines the leg of a 15-year-old girl. January 22. Download |
A World Vision "detective" talks with a twelve-year-old boy who became separated from his parents in the quake, working to reunite the family. March 25 Download |
World Vision's "cash-for-work" program offers participants a chance to earn money by maintaining the camps in which they live. March 31 Download |
World Vision community workers and men from the camps assemble an example of the 7,500 houses the agency will build for families. March 19 Download |
Assembling the first house. Download |
Assembling the first house. Download |
At a World Vision child-friendly space in Port-au-Prince, ten-year-old David draws a picture of the house he'd like to live in. February 19 Download |
Water bottles from World Vision. January 19 Download |
World Vision staff member meets a family of children, listening to their needs. February 18 Download |
Yvette and her four children left Port-au-Prince for the small island of La Ganove to live with her father. World Vision has provided them with wheat, beans and cooking oil. February 18 Download |
Francine Lorneus with her baby girl, Marine in an IDP camp. Today, they received food rations from World Vision. Camp residents received tarps, cooking kits, blankets and drinking water. January 25 Download |
In World Vision mobile field hospital, a paramedic examines three-month-old baby boy Amadou. January 24 Download |
Children in the Place Accra ADP camp now have a shelter, thanks to tarps provided by World Vision. January 22 Download |
Women receive food rations from World Vision. January 22 Download |
World Vision food distribution, January 31 Download |
A World Vision child-friendly space, a place for children to play, learn, share and heal. February 10 Download |
A World Vision volunteer walks through IDP camp in Port-au-Prince with megaphone, letting children know the program at a child-friendly space is about to begin. February 6 Download |
Children spend time singing and dancing with a World Vision volunteer at a child-friendly space — a return to normalcy after weeks of disaster. February 6 Download |
Fun at a World Vision child-friendly space, a safe place for children to spend time and have fun. February 6 Download |
Food distribution in Cite Soleil, one of the toughest neighborhoods in the Port-au-Prince area. February 8 Download |
This World Vision sponsored child volunteered to translate Creole and Spanish for Haitian earthquake victims at the hospitals in Jimani, Dominican Republic. World Vision supplied the hospitals with medical supplies, drinking water, tents for rehabilitation and logistical support. January 26. Download |
This toddler and her parents were living in the front yard of their damaged house. They came to this World Vision mobile clinic because the little girl had a swollen neck, a fever and infected ears. February 9. Download |
