Save The Children: To “Build Back Better” In Haiti

Save The Children Creating Long-Term Plan To “Build Back Better” In Haiti

Even as Save the Children delivers aid to children and families in Haiti, the children’s rights agency is building a long-term plan to build back better in the impoverished, earthquake-affected country.

Ian Rodgers working for Save the Children in Haiti said, “We are on the ground delivering aid to children and families in Haiti right now, but we must do much more than that. It’s key we all use this opportunity to build back better in Haiti. Save the Children drew on strong public support to do just that in Asia following the massive Tsunami that hit 5 years ago, and we can do the same for the Haitian people who have endured so much.”

Liz Gibbs, Save the Children New Zealand’s Chief Executive said, “In Aceh, Indonesia today, things are much better than they were before the Tsunami hit. Children have a brighter future now thanks to new and better clinics, health programs, schools, trained teachers, earthquake-safe housing and disaster-preparedness plans.”

In Haiti Save the Children continues to distribute life-saving medical supplies in Port-au-Prince after a 15-metric-ton shipment of supplies arrived in Haiti from the US. In the next 24 hours a team of 12 doctors will arrive in Haiti and be immediately despatched to mobile health clinics Save the Children is setting up in the coastal city of Leogane, near the earthquake epicentre. Save the Children is also readying large shipments of medical supplies to arrive in Leogane Tuesday local time.

Save the Children has started to set up the first of many Child Friendly Spaces planned for shelters and camps housing earthquake victims. These safe spaces protect children and give them a place to play and recover from the suffering they have endured and witnessed. New Zealanders have donated $175,000 to the Save the Children Haiti Emergency Appeal. Help us raise $1 million for Haiti by donating now:

• Call Save the Children New Zealand’s donation line: 0800 167 168 or 0900 67168 to give an automatic $20 donation

• Visit any one of Save the Children’s shops across the country

• Send a cheque, made out to Save the Children, to Freepost PO Box 6584, Marion Square, Wellington. Mark your envelope Haiti and don’t forget to add your name and address so we can send you a receipt.

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