Save the Children - progress in Haiti
Jon Bugge Communications Manager- today we visit a site to set up a child friendly space tomorrow so this will be in a pre-fabricated domed structure and be a place for children to come together in the make shift camp and play to simply be children....... and we know that they are incredibly resilient.......right now and it’s really crucial. So this space was actually in the grounds of a church and there are hundreds of people there who are in the open and have been there since Tuesday. There is very little access to water or food or......so this will be a really important starting point in terms of the children’s recovery. Also today one of our team was at another camp and found a woman who was going into labour, but the woman was having some complications and needed emergency surgery they took her to three separate hospitals trying to find her treatment but were unable to until in the end they took her to the United Nations Compound where she was treated and successfully gave birth. So those needs are still very crucial.... the food, the water and the medicine out to these people where they need it the most but also the children schools who now on day 5 after the earthquake are still having to deal with the impact of such a terrifying ordeal.
Jon Bugge Communications Manager- today we visit a site to set up a child friendly space tomorrow so this will be in a pre-fabricated domed structure and be a place for children to come together in the make shift camp and play to simply be children....... and we know that they are incredibly resilient.......right now and it’s really crucial. So this space was actually in the grounds of a church and there are hundreds of people there who are in the open and have been there since Tuesday. There is very little access to water or food or......so this will be a really important starting point in terms of the children’s recovery. Also today one of our team was at another camp and found a woman who was going into labour, but the woman was having some complications and needed emergency surgery they took her to three separate hospitals trying to find her treatment but were unable to until in the end they took her to the United Nations Compound where she was treated and successfully gave birth. So those needs are still very crucial.... the food, the water and the medicine out to these people where they need it the most but also the children schools who now on day 5 after the earthquake are still having to deal with the impact of such a terrifying ordeal.
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