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Haiti One Year On: Addressing the urgent need for clean water and sanitation

The IRC's cholera response teams have been visiting camps all over Port-au-Prince to talk to residents, answer their questions about cholera, and talk about how they can help people in affected areas practice good hygiene so that they don't make others sick.

Photo: Susana Ferreira/IRC

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Haiti One Year On: Keeping women safe and healthy

A woman and child living in the Villambetta camp for earthquake survivors in Port-au-Prince

Photo: Nancy Farese/IRC

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Thank you from Haiti

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Haiti in 2010: Turning rubble into renewal

The International Rescue Committee was the first aid agency in Haiti to train case workers to identify and register missing children.

Photo: Gerald Martone/IRC

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"Can I get cholera from kissing?"

A young resident of Juvenat 7 camp, near Petionville in Port-au-Prince, announces that the cholera response team has arrived. These nurses and water and sanitation experts have been pushing an education campaign to dispel dangerous rumors about the illness.

Photo: Susana Ferreira/The IRC

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Photo Share: Spreading the word about cholera in Haiti

Photo: Susana Ferreira/IRC

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Election unrest overshadows cholera response in Haiti

The National Palace, the official residence of the Haitian president, shortly after the January 2010 earthquake that devastated Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince.

Photo: Gerald Martone/The IRC

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Haiti: A son’s return, a father’s joy [Photos]

IRC caseworkers helped Oservio Janvier and his nine-year-old son, Genald, find each other after they were separated in the chaos that followed the January 2010 earthquake.

Photo: Susana Ferreira/The IRC

Family reunion in Haiti

  • Oservio Janvier walks up concrete steps to his in-laws' house to pick up Genald.
  • A smiling Genald is glad to back in his dad's arms
  • Genald looks around his relatives' home one last time as the adults do paperwork
  • Oservio and Genald walk toward the IRC car for the ride home
  • Oservio rests his hand on his son's head as they walk back to the IRC car
  • An overjoyed Genald and Oservio are back at home in Oservio's tent.

After losing his wife and his home to January's devastating earthquake, Oservio Janvier lost touch with the relatives who found and cared for his son in the chaos that followed. Nine months later, an IRC family tracing team's detective work brought an overjoyed Oservio and his little boy, nine-year-old Genald, back together.


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Photo share: Cholera first response

Photo: Susana Ferreira/The IRC

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