Haiti - Earthquake

Question 1

short term responses

Answer 1

• $100million in aid given by the USA and $300million by EU
• 810,000 people placed in aid camps
• 115,000 tents and 1,000,000 tarpaulin shelters provided
• healthcare supplies provided to limit disease
• lack of immediate aid through poor planning, management and access
• 4.3million people provided with food

Question 2

long term responses

Answer 2

• 98% of rubble on the roads hadn’t been cleared restricting aid access
• 1million people left homeless after a year - lived in aid camps
• support for people without jobs
• temporarily schools created
• water and sanitation eventually supplied for 1.7million people

Question 3

Primary effects

Answer 3

• 316,000 people were killed
• 1million people were left homeless
• 3million people effected by the earthquake
• 250,000 homes and 30,000 buildings, presidents palace, 60%government buildings were destroyed
• transport and communication links were badly effected

Question 4

Secondary effects

Answer 4

• 1 in 5 people lost their jobs
• hospitals and morgues became full (bodies had to be piled up in the streets)
• the bodies caused diseases such as cholera
• airport had poor management so aid was restricted