Residents of the Parc St. Therese camp clear drainage canals. World Vision has integrated disaster risk reduction into its programs, including the construction of drainage canals and paying residents to maintain them.

Hurricane Tomas has now passed Haiti, leaving relatively minor damage and some flooding. Concern over the spread of the current cholera epidemic remains.

World Vision staff in Port au Prince and other areas surrounding the capital report minimal impact on residents and the organization’s programs in Haiti. Residents are now out of their shelters and returning to normal daily activities.

The main issue for families displaced by the January earthquake is coping with all the water that has inundated the camps in the aftermath of the storm. Because cholera is a water-borne disease, health experts are very concerned that infections will rise.

World Vision will continue its cholera-fighting activities which include the operation of health clinics, distribution of soap and education programs encouraging proper hygiene.

To read more about World Vision’s programs combating the cholera epidemic, click here.

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