Going Concern

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Scenes this week from Haiti following Hurricane Matthew .

Kevin Jenkinson writes:

These pictures were taken by Concern’s Peter Doyle, a seasoned aid worker from Glasnevin, Dublin who is an emergency planning, response and distribution expert, and others working for the Irish aid agency in Haiti as they help survivors of Hurricane Matthew

Peter (pic 2) has been tweeting regularly from Haiti as he travels to its worst hit areas with other Concern staff distributing aid. He is worth following, Twitter handle @peter_emd
Concern’s is @Concern

One image of his shows the forgotten beauty of Haiti, an incredible sunset from the hard hit Haitian island of La Gonave, which has a population of 90,000 with 25,000 of them in need of immediate aid. Concern already reached 800 families on the island.

Concern, who have been in Haiti since 1994, had 106 staff there when the hurricane struck, led by their Country Director Nellie Kingston from Clonakilty, Cork.

They have been distributing supplies, such as water cleaning aqua tablets, blankets and jerry cans, and working to prevent the spread of cholera, which killed over 10,000 people in Haiti after an earthquake killed over 300,000 people in 2010.

Haiti has a population of 10.1 million and almost 13 per cent, or 1.4 million, are estimated by the UN to be in urgent need of supplies.

Concern has launched an urgent appeal. All donations are welcome and can be made online here or by calling Concern directly on Freephone 1850 211 844.

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20 thoughts on “Going Concern

  1. Zuppy International

    First they must disavow the Clintons: Aid, politics and deceit are the same bag of tricks.

  2. Increasing Displacement

    Overpopulation and destruction of habitat in a region prone to hurricanes and earthquakes.

    Can’t think of a worse combination.

    1. sǝɯǝɯʇɐpɐq

      Ho ho ho… I can barely hold my sides.
      You guys are so hilarious.
      I need an ambulance.

  3. Boy M5

    I wonder all the aid worker heads are being accommodated in Denis O’Brien’s 5 star hotel. Because Haiti really needed a 5 star hotel after the earthquake.

    1. Kieran NYC

      Presumably there are no tourists in Haiti to occupy the 5 star hotel right now. So let the staff starve?

      We should knock the hotel just in case any middle class or rich white person dare spend their money on the island.

  4. DubLoony

    The earthquake happened in 2010. Billions in aid was promised. The “Build back better” was bandied about.

    How many robust houses were built? How many people were trained in trade skills necessary to build?

    Private foundations are a swizz. Local people have to be enabled to be responsible for their own future.

    1. LW

      That Earthquake seemed to be an exercise in money making for a few people, not least Wyclef and the American Red Cross. It’s hard to know who to donate to

  5. Frilly Keane

    Ah yeah
    I see the Concern T-shirt there n’all

    But no

    Concern won’t be getting a penny off me

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