5. ROLE OF AN NGO - RED CROSS HAITI

Question 1

VIDEO

Answer 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yc0ecUn5Vos&list=PLdgqkwfRbp5zfSqb5l81IulmlJsfQKZV4&index=16

Question 2

HAITI

Answer 2

Poorest country in LAtin America & CArribean
LIDC
60% live in poverty
Extreme inequality
Densley populated eg Capital Port au Prince

Question 3

Cholera

Answer 3

Virus effects young, old, vulnerable. A diahrreal disease

Question 4

Causes of Outbreak

Answer 4

Earthquake–> displacement, infrastructure damage,
1.3 miioin homeless–> camps
Aid worker brought Cholera acros
Poor WASH –> cholera

Question 5

Effects of Outbreak

Answer 5

720,0000 cases & 8700 deaths

Question 6

British Red Cross - Startegies

Answer 6

National
Clean water supplies. medical suplies
Cholera Treatment Centres eg in LA Piste
Hygieneie programme built 13,000 latrines
Helped rebuild healthcare centres

Question 7

Work with LOCAL communities and Households

Answer 7

Door to Door volunteers to educate prevention startegies
Local Radio % Newspapers
Restored family links

Question 8

BRITISH RED CROSS

Answer 8

Humanitatrian organisation
Organisations’s principles =
neutrality, impartial, independent, service

Question 9

FActors Affecting Spread

Answer 9

No immunity
Peole left camps–> spread disease further away.
Poor education awareness
Spread by River Artibonite

Question 10

SUCCESS

Answer 10

Some Efective eg Treatement Cetnres but
criticised for
Lack of co-ordination with other agencies
Patching up old systems
Fail to use local Haiti staff

Red Cross global accused of misrepresenation of scale of impact