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Progressio helps people gain power over their lives and overcome barriers that keep them poor We enable poor communities to solve their own problems through support from skilled workers And we lobby. Gail McGovern HAITI EARTQUAKRESPONSFOUR-YAR PDAT JANUAR 2014 Total Funds Spent 34%16%12%Water & Sanitation16%10%Disaster The American Red Cross received $486 million in relief and recovery efforts t www.onu - haiti.org 0 2000 4000 6000 8000 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sept Oct Nov Dec suspected cholera cases 2013 - 2014 2013 2014 Haiti Cholera Response United Nations in Haiti April 2014 T h Can we predict what the climate of Haiti might be like?. Based on lesson by Beverly . Feldkamp. , VLHS, Michigan.. Christopher Columbus described the island of Haiti:. “Its lands are high; there are in it many sierras and very lofty mountains…all are most beautiful, or a thousand shapes; all are accessible and filled with trees of a thousand kinds and tall, so that they seem to touch the sky. I am told that they never lose their foliage, and this I can believe, for I saw them as green and lovely as they are in Spain in May, and some of them were flowering, some bearing fruit, and some at another stage, according to their nature.”. Symbolism. . Residents attach tremendous importance to the expulsion of the French in 1804, an event that made Haiti the first independently black-ruled nation in the world, and only the second country in the Western Hemisphere to achieve independence from imperial Europe. The most noted national symbols are the flag, Henri Christophe's citadel and the statue of the "unknown maroon" ( . 1492 - 2008. 1492. 1500`s. 1697. Christopher Columbus claimed the island for Spain. He established the first Spanish settlement in the Americans.. Indians had all died out from disease. . France gained control of the western third of Hispaniola.. January 12. th. 2010. simulator. In Italy it was one town, and a few villages - not a large urban area. . In China, it affected a large area and big towns, but. . no city. . In Haiti, in a big city like Port-au-Prince, with so many structures coming down, the falling. Hazards are produced from the response of energy released. Amount and duration are related to the amount of energy released. Which hazards do you know?. Earthquake Hazards. Tsunami: displacement of a large volume of water. Shaquilla . Terry. Department of Public Health . Haiti Development. Studies Center. HDSC. Outline . Introduc. ing the problem. History of . Waste . M. a. nagement . in Haiti. Current Means of Disposal . Fifties & Sixties Style . w. ith David Barge. The Duality of Haiti Tourism (50s). Advertisements for Haitian tourism often contrasted native symbols and “traditional” touristic images with foreign intellectualism and architecture. Crime in Haiti. Did YOU know...?!. The Earthquake reached 7.0 on the Richter Scale on the 12/1/2010. At least 52 aftershocks occurred.. 3 million people were affected.. 316,000 people died. 300,000 were injured. 1 million were left homeless.. Revolution in Haiti. The vast majority of Saint . Domingue’s. population were enslaved Africans. .. Other groups included native people, French plantation owners, people of mixed-races. Combo of traditional tribal religions and Catholicism/. UMCA Care. Haiti. 2015-10. Haiti is a small island country located in the Caribbean. . I. t is one of the poorest countries in the world. .. The earthquake had a devastating effect on Haiti’s economy, and put an already struggling economy into an even worse situation.. When the sky falls and the . Earth quakes. We . gon. put this back together. We won’t break. Sa Pa . Sé. , my . Port-Au-Princes. My Haitian Gods and all of my Princesses. Our condolences as you . Haiti Ministry of Public Health Haitian Medical Association Association of Haitian Physicians Abroad