Temporary and Transitional Shelters
Responding to the shelter needs of 15,000 registered children and their families, Compassion set up systems to supply construction materials for those who could rebuild, and waterproof tarps or tents to serve as temporary shelter for those left with no home and no property on which to build.
Status: Completed
Beneficiary Survey
Beneficiary Survey
Compassion Haiti staff conducted a survey to locate, identify and determine the status of all beneficiary children impacted by the earthquake.
Status: Complete
Temporary Office in the Parking Lot
Office Repair
Left with office space too dangerous to occupy, the Compassion Haiti staff worked in the office parking lot for weeks as they coordinated relief strategies. A local engineering firm was contracted to fix the building damage, which was finished this summer.
Status: Completed
Temporary Meeting Place
Temporary Meeting Places for Implementing Church Partners
This high-priority strategy created safe, secure implementing church partner facilities to replace those severely damaged or destroyed by the earthquake. Compassion supplied temporary units for church offices and financial support for rubble removal, construction materials and furnishings so church partners could restart their child development activities.
Status: Completed
Restarting Child Development Activities
Restarting Significantly Impacted Centers
Compassion implemented revitalization camps to pull together scattered children, assess their physical and emotional well-being, and teach them vital disease-prevention strategies. The camps also strengthened children’s emotional resiliency as 38 Child Sponsorship Program and 13 Child Survival Program centers resumed normal operations.
Status: Completed
Rubble After the Earthquake
Post-trauma Treatment for Implementing Church Partners and Beneficiaries
Compassion hired two psychologists to counsel children, their parents and implementing church partner staff. These professionals not only provide therapy for victims with post-traumatic stress symptoms, they train center staff and tutors to identify common psychological problems and to respond with proper stress-relief techniques.
Status: Completed
LDP Students Assist in Search for Sponsored Children
Leadership Development Program
Haiti’s Leadership Development Program students received on-the-job leadership training by serving child development centers, churches and community organizations during the interruption of normal university classes that followed the quake. In addition, a three-day camp for LDP students offered post-trauma training and counseling. Injured LDP students received medical care, and those in need were given food kits, water and temporary shelter.
Status: Completed
Pastors Gather for Encouragement & Equipping
Pastor Encouragement and Vision Casting
Compassion is encouraging and enabling implementing church partner pastors to be the prophetic voice of the Church in Haiti. Pastoral teams have met to create documents on leadership and good governance, integrity and justice, which will be published and used as a tool for evangelical leaders in Haiti. In addition, 100 ICP pastors participated in the international Willow Creek Leadership Summit in November.
Status: In process
