Increasingly powerful gangs have seized control of the main road leading from the capital of Port-au-Prince to Haiti’s southern region, disrupting efforts to provide food, water and other basic goods to those in need.Ī lot of organizations have been forced to pay bribes to avoid staff being kidnapped while driving to the south.Ĭindy Cox-Roman, CEO of Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit HelpAGE USA, said there is “a great feeling on the part of people there that they’re alone in this.”Ĭassendy Charles, emergency program manager for the Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit Mercy Corps, estimates it could take five years for the region to fully recover from the earthquake. It noted that a lack of funds and a spike in violence have delayed reconstruction. The state also opened a temporary bridge over the Grande-Anse River in early August.īut UNICEF warned last week that more than 250,000 children still have no access to adequate schools and that the majority of 1,250 schools destroyed or damaged have not been rebuilt. It has provided $100 each to vulnerable people in tens of thousands of homes across the south. The government says it has planted 400 tons of beans, cleaned 10,000 meters of canals, distributed 22,000 bags of fertilizer and donated more than 300,000 baskets filled with basic goods. On the earthquake’s anniversary, a group of government officials held a press conference describing the advances of the administration of Prime Minister Ariel Henry, who began leading the country shortly after President Jovenel Moïse was assassinated on July 7, 2021. The tiny girl, Wood Branan Ernest, fell asleep during her failed attempt. But after a year of surviving on scraps in a makeshift camp, Castel had no milk. On Thursday morning, she tried to get her 9-month-old daughter to suckle. So today, Castel is alone, fighting for her family’s survival like many struggling to restart their lives after the quake. The Associated Press visited several camps surrounding the southern coastal city of Les Cayes, which was one of the hardest hit areas, and over and over again people complained that no government official had visited them despite repeated promises that they would come to help.Īs the family waited for help, Ernest died of prostate cancer last year. If recent history is any guide, few people will. 14, 2021 quake, the family is still living in the same makeshift tent like hundreds of others, and still wondering if anyone will help them. In the days after the magnitude 7.2 quake hit, they gathered sheets, tarpaulins and wood and made a shelter for themselves and their three children.
LES CAYES, Haiti (AP) - The cinderblock home with a tin roof that Erline Castel and Dieunord Ernest rented was among the more than 130,000 houses damaged or destroyed by a powerful earthquake that struck southern Haiti last year, killing more than 2,200 people.
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