The IRC in Haiti today

Photo: Gerald Martone/IRC

• IRC teams work not only in camps but also in neighborhoods that lack basic services. We focus on helping the most vulnerable, including single mothers, at-risk adolescents, separated or orphaned children, the elderly, and people with disabilities.

• IRC teams continue to assist separated children in camps, orphanages and urban neighborhoods. The IRC has reunited nearly 800 separated families. 

• IRC child friendly spaces remain a refuge to children in camps and must continue to be supported as long as children remain in the settlements.

• New programs for adolescent girls focus on mentoring them, keeping them safe from sexual exploitation and offering new opportunities through skills training.

• IRC teams continue sanitation services in camps –  lifesaving programs that must be maintained until people are able to move. 

• IRC teams are also repairing or establishing water points and latrines at health facilities, schools and in impoverished neighborhoods.

• Intensive hygiene education programs continues to help prevent the spread of diseases.

Take a look back at our emergency response in Haiti after the earthquake.

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