As of March 02, 2010, the United Nations and the Government of Haiti estimate that as a result of the January 12, 2010 earthquake in Haiti:
222,570 have died
604,215 people have left the capital for the provinces
3 million people have been directly affected
1 .3million of these are homeless living in spontaneous settlement sites (tent cities), with only 40% of these have received emergency shelter materials
OCHA Reports (March 25, 2010):
- Some 200 families have moved into the first transitional site, Santo 17, set up for the relocation of populations in sites prioritized for decongestion.
- The Emergency Shelter cluster has provided emergency shelter materials to over 74% of the targeted 1.3 million people.
- FAO has scaled up its operations to reach 108,000 farmers, including 68,000 during the spring planting season in the South and 40,000 during the summer planting season in Artibonite through newly reallocated European Union funds.
- WFP is currently providing food assistance to 67 hospitals and is aiming to reach up to 100,000 beneficiaries.
- The Clinton Foundation has pledged to donate 6,000 cartons of plumpy nut. The donation will be divided into 3 deliveries of 2,000 cartons and each delivery will be made over an interval of 4 weeks. The first delivery is scheduled for the third week in April.
- In response to a rise in reports of Gender-Based Violence (GBV) cases, the Child Protection (CP) and GBV sub-clusters, together with MINUSTAH, and the Haitian National Police have joined forces to patrol, monitor and evaluate security issues related to CP and GBV in six settlement sites.
- PDNA findings reveal that the total value of damage and losses caused by the January 12 earthquake is estimated at US$7.8 billion (US$4.3 billion represents physical damage and US$3.5 billion are economic losses). The damage and losses are equivalent of about more than 120% of the 2009 gross domestic product (GDP).
