HAITI Disaster

Emergency Relief to Victims In Haiti

A 7.0 magnitude earthquake hit Port–au-Prince, Haiti, on January 12, 2010. The earthquake lasted one minute, just enough time to kill many thousands of people and destroy countless buildings.

CLEAN WATER is desperately needed to save children's lives

HEART is extremely concerned about the children and the families in the affected area. Haiti is one of the poorest countries in the world where 20,000 children under the age of 5 died of malnutrition and other causes in 2007 (UNICEF's most recent numbers).

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New York Times ...A massive earthquake has struck Haiti, reducing much of its capital to rubble. It was the worst earthquake in the region in more than 200 years, with as many as 50,000 feared dead. The devastation created ... READ MORE

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A massive 7.0-magnitude earthquake has struck the Caribbean nation of Haiti. The extent of the devastation is still unclear but there are fears thousands of people may have died. . . The Red Cross says up to three million people have been affected. Haiti's worst quake in two centuries ..READ MORE

WATER . . . A World Crisis

HEART now helps Haiti.

The water crisis in Haiti is nothing new. They have been dealing with this lack of water for hundred of years. Unfortunately now it is worse. Roughly 5,000 children die every day from water-borne illness. There is a solution. Ceramic water filters remove 99.98% of bacteria including e coli, fecal coli form, and total coli form, cholera as well as Giardia and Cryptosporidium. HEART works in developing countries to stop this preventable death in Guatemala, Nicaragua, and Myanmar. READ MORE

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The red dots on the map indicate the locations in the world which are in most need of water. Africa and India show the highest concentration of people without clean water.