Disaster

Help is on the way to Cap-Haitian. Here is a picture of KANTIN MOBIL Ede Pep on top of a flat bed truck as it is heading to the city of Cap-Haïtien for flood relief.

How long can Haitian Government subsidize its Poor?

The Haitian government's National Social Assistance Program (NSAP) is working to give a helping hand to five million-plus Haitians by 2016.

Segments of the population in need include the handicapped, elderly, destitute mothers, students, and farmers. Remedies include cash transfers, farming kits, emergency coupons, solidarity baskets, and hot meals prepared in mobile kitchens.

The U.S. has funded NSAP for $76 million, and the Haitian government has already used $15 million of it. It needs more funding to keep the program going.

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Here is a picture showing the extent of the flood in Cap-Haitian. The city is not operational and the extent of the flood, according to some, has never been recorded before. Many people have not been able to conduct their day to day activities.

Cap-Haitien Mayor asks for Flood Relief Aid from Private Sector

A series of storms blasted northern Haiti recently. In Port-au-Prince three children perished when the wall of a home collapsed on them. Reports varied as to the death toll in Cap-Haitien from 5 to 16 deaths, among them 3 children. Four people drowned while trying to forge a river and one other person seemingly was electrocuted.

Wilborde Beon the mayor of Cap-Haitien told the media the city was a disaster zone with ". . . many dead and major damage. All the populous areas are flooded."

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Cap-Haitian is covered with water. Haiti Government Responds to Storm Devastation

A storm system pummeled Haiti where the North and West Departments in particular sustained major damage. At last count 8 people were reported dead, and 4,500 evacuated to shelters set up at local schools.

Communes of Cap-Haitien and Cabaret experienced flood conditions with some towns such as Blue Hills, Grand Riviere du Nord, Limonade, Limbé, and Bahon navigable only by boat. In Roi Henri, at Christophe University, the flood waters hampered students from getting to classes. Conditions in coastal areas have had the greatest impact economically with houses and gardens submerged beneath flood waters and livestock drowned.

In Cabaret the Government of Haiti under its National System of Risk Management and Disaster has distributed 4,000 hot meals, 1,000 food kits, and 200 cots. Equipment such as shovels and wheelbarrows, and water purification tablets are being handed out in the North Department.

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Here is a picture of several Homes in Cap-Haitian invaded with Water as a result of the flood

Cap-Haitien, which seems to have borne the brunt of the storms, completed a drainage basin project to protect the town and residents against severe storm activity that in the past has resulted in extreme land degradation.

The project:

• Rehabilitated ravines with wattling and bamboo barriers
• Safeguarded riverbanks with rock barriers
• Reforested with fruit tree saplings
• Gave local governments jurisdiction over drainage basins

An assessment of how the drainage basin project fared during the recent storms has yet to be completed, but it may reveal whatever flaws in the system need to be corrected for better protection against the next storm system.

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Here is a picture of cap-Haitian as it was flooded in November, 2014

Cap-Haitien Hard-Hit by Storm System

Farms suffered extensive damage from the storm. Agriculture officials have been out surveying the damage and its economic impact. So far an estimated damage report has not been submitted, according to the Civil Protection Agency in a statement to the media.

The government of Haiti has mobilized to respond to the crisis by generating its National System of Risk Management and Disaster. Not only in Cap-Haitien but in the entire North Department--which has been the hardest hit--officials have been distributing aid relief: food kits, hot meals, beds, sheets, water purification tablets, and more are going out. In all, four departments out of ten have suffered damage and population displacement

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The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) ensure that Haiti has
insurance coverage to limit the impact of catastrophic hurricanes and or earthquakes by providing to the Country a 2.57m in 2014

Caribbean Development Bank covers Haiti for Natural Disasters

Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) will pay Haiti's insurance premium to the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF) for coverage period June 1, 2014 - May 31, 2015. CCRIF, an insurance fund used to mitigate damages caused by natural disasters, protects Caribbean countries. Funding was provided by Japan with contributions from international donors.

CDB Director Pierre-Louis thanked the CDB Board of Directors for the grant they approved at their meeting in Barbados on October 16, 2014.

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One of the most terrible car accident took place today in Haiti. A bus overturned in Morne Tapion, near the town of Petit Goave in Haiti, killing at least 23 people.

It has been reported that the accident happened as a result of break problem with the car. The bus was traveling from the town of Chamberlain to Port-au-Prince, carrying several passengers.

Kreyol:
Gin yon akcidan grav ki rive nan rout Chamberlain / Port-au-Prince. O mwen 23 krityen vivan mouri nan akcidan sa. Te gin yon kantite de moun ki te kole anba machin lan, yo raporte

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This is quite a sad story. A Haitian family in Long Island is going through one of the terrible tragedies. In a car accident that took place last Saturday, a mother, grandmother and her three children were killed in in a car crash as they were on the way home from a family party.

Police reported all five people died including Myriam Lebrun, Lebrun's mother Moise Yolande, three children: Marcus Jeanty, 14, Marcel Jeanty, 9, and Kayla Jeanty, 8

three children in a fiery car crash Saturday night in Babylon, Long Island, police said. Myriam Lebrun, 37, of Brooklyn, was driving west on the Southern State Parkway with her three children and their grandmother, when the car veered off the highway between exits 38 and 39, state police said.

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On Saturday, October 6, 2014 the funeral for the 5 family members killed in Southern State crash. Hundreds of mourners watched as five coffins carrying five members of a single family that were killed in a crash on the Southern State out of St. Martha's Catholic Church

Mourners stand outside St. Martha's Catholic Church in Uniondale on Saturday, Sept. 6, 2014, as coffins are carried out after a funeral service for five family members from Brooklyn that were killed in a crash on the Southern State

Thirty sever year old Myriam Lebrun, along with her mother and her three children died on August 23, 2014 in a car accident after leaving a family gathering in Brentwood, New York

Pawol Pale, Pawol Kompran

Samedi ki te 6 Septemb, 2014, anpil Ayisyen nan New York te asiste avek tristes, fineray 5 moun nan yon sel fanmiy ki te mouri nan akcidan machin nan. Yon maman, manman li ake twa ti moun li, yo tout te pedi lavi yo nan yon kokin akcidan yo te fet nan machin yo 23 Out 2014. Myriam Lebrun ki te ginyin 37 ane, manman li Yolande Moise ki te gin 68 an, twa pitit li: Marcus Jeanty, 14 an, Marcel Jeanty, 9 an, et Kayla Jeanty, 8 an, pedi lavi yo.

Ke nam yo tout repoze an pè

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Haiti is a country very vulnerable to earthquakes. The Island has been hit with many quakes in its history. Here is a list of some of the most devastating earthquakes that struck Haiti:

1564 Concepción de la Vega and Santiago de los Caballeros

1701 Tiburon Peninsula from Leogane to Petit Goave

1751 Port-au-Prince earthquake (18 October):

1770 Port-au-Prince earthquake (3 June):

1783 Santiago de los Caballeros quake

1842 Cap-Haitien earthquake

1946 Dominican Republic earthquake

2010 Haiti earthquake (12 January)

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