Our team’s latest update on the situation in Haiti after Saturday’s devastating earthquake is now available in our Resources section, as well as here.

Main highlights are as follows:

• The team has focused its efforts on areas which have been accessible (by road) to them in the department of Nippes: Petit Trou, Baradères, and L’Asile. Due to a bridge collapse, access to Jeremie is still hindered, and Baradères is still difficult to reach.
• We have been distributing medical kits to support Health Centers in Petit Trou, Baradères, and L’Asile.
• Initial damage assessment:
  • Commune Arnaud: 2,000 houses destroyed, 800 damaged, health center damaged, 25 people injured, 3 dead.
  • L’Asile is heavily affected: 60% of houses destroyed, 35% damaged, 100 people dead, 600 injured, hospital damaged receiving patients in tents.
  • Assessments in Petit Trou and Plaisance are on-going.
• We are working in close coordination with Haitian authorities, our implementing partner AHAAMES, other active NGOs in the area (namely Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund of Germany), as well as with Order of Malta entities.
• Assessment of market availability of certain goods is on-going to ensure future currency distributions will be useful. Otherwise, we will distribute hygiene kits and provision of water and food for displaced persons.
• A rapid market assessment is ongoing in Miragoane and Les Cayes to get a clear vision on which materials can be purchased in the region and which need to be transported.

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Yesterday (August 17), MI Americas Program Manager Carla Wehmeier gave us an update of the situation on the ground in the days since the earthquake.

Below, you will find images of the destruction of buildings in L’Asile.