FACTBOX-One month after Haiti quake, rain adds misery

Thu Feb 11, 2010 10:15pm GMT

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Feb 11 (Reuters) - Rain soaked quake survivors in the tent camps of the Haitian capital on Thursday, a warning of fresh misery for the 1 million homeless living in the street one month after the devastating earthquake.

Here are some facts about the current situation in the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere.

THE BIG PICTURE

* 212,000 people dead, the government reports.

* 3 million of 9 million population affected, 1 million now living in streets in 492 makeshift shelter camps.

* 250,000 houses destroyed

FOOD

* U.N. World Food Program says it is providing food rations to an estimated 2 million Haitians, nearly a quarter of the population, through 16 distribution sites. Nearly 1.3 million have received a two-week ration of rice in past nine days.

* Price of imported rice is 25 percent higher and wheat flour over 65 percent higher than before the quake, causing difficulty for people considered "food secure," WFP says.

* Supplementary food program launched for 53,000 children under 5 and for 16,000 pregnant women and nursing mothers.

* Florida-based Food for the Poor said it had acquired and delivered more than 7,100 tons of food, medical supplies, pharmaceuticals, building materials and other goods, and provided Haitians with more than 20 million meals of rice, beans, canned goods and water.

HEALTH AND WELFARE

* The Red Cross/Red Crescent, as of Feb. 5, had distributed 15 million litres (4 million gallons) of drinking water, provided medical treatment for 13,000 people, provided cooking sets, blankets, jerry cans, mosquito nets and hygiene kits to 37,054 families (185,270 people), tarps and rope to 17,000 households, tents to 925 households.

* Doctors Without Borders, in its most recent report, had 19 locations set up, treated 12,924 patients, performed 1,427 surgeries, had 353 foreign staff and 1,280 Haitian staff at work on the ground.

U.S. MILITARY

* More than 13,000 U.S. military personnel assigned to Haiti relief, along with 17 ships, 120 aircraft

* Has delivered 2.4 million bottles of water, 2.4 million rations, 9.1 million pounds of bulk food, 120,700 pounds of medical supplies as of Feb. 9.

JOBS

* Haitian government has declared job creation one of its most important goals. Before the quake, officials said two-thirds of Haitians did not have formal jobs.

* U.N. Development Program (UNDP) injecting $175,000 a day into economy with cash-for-work program clearing streets of rubble and garbage, employing 34,885 workers as of Feb. 6.

* U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) employing 6,000 people in cash-for-work programs, hopes to reach 20,000 soon.

CLEANUP CHALLENGE

* Edmond Mulet, acting head of the U.N. mission in Haiti, said 63 million tons of rubble need to be removed.

* "If you lined up the dump trucks, our shelter expert feels that there would be enough rubble to go from Port-au-Prince to Moscow. That's a lot of rubble," said Tim Callaghan of USAID. (SOURCES: Haitian government, WFP, Red Cross, Doctors Without Borders, UNDP, USAID, U.S. military) (Reporting by Jim Loney, Jane Sutton; Editing by Pascal Fletcher)





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