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- Two young girls rinsing their hands with water from a pail © ACDI-CIDA/Jean-François Leblanc
- Two women merchants tending to their vending stall © ACDI-CIDA/Jean-François Leblanc
- Construction men at work © ACDI-CIDA/Jean-François Leblanc
- Heavy equipment behind vending stalls in a street © ACDI-CIDA/Jean-François Leblanc
- A building with a sign over its entrance © ACDI-CIDA/Jean-François Leblanc
- A family in a shelter © ACDI-CIDA/Jean-François Leblanc
- Portrait of a middle-aged woman © ACDI-CIDA/Jean-François Leblanc
- A woman standing in a cemetery © ACDI-CIDA/Jean-François Leblanc
- A fisherman and his boat © ACDI-CIDA/Jean-François Leblanc
- Portrait of a street vendor © ACDI-CIDA/Jean-François Leblanc
- People with piles of documents in an office © ACDI-CIDA/Jean-François Leblanc
- A man among ruins © ACDI-CIDA/Jean-François Leblanc
- Men standing on pile of cement blocks © ACDI-CIDA/Jean-François Leblanc
- Three pupils sitting at a table and smiling © ACDI-CIDA/Jean-François Leblanc
- Tents © ACDI-CIDA/Jean-François Leblanc
- A power shovel removing debris © ACDI-CIDA/Jean-François Leblanc
Haiti — After the Earthquake
Pupils wash their hands before lunch at Villeneuve d'Ascq de Demontreuil community school in Bas Cap Rouge, near Jacmel. CIDA-funded projects have provided psychosocial support for children, encouraging them to return to school after the earthquake.
Women entrepreneurs at the market in Jacmel. With assistance from a CIDA-funded recapitalization project, these women received microcredit loans to renew the store inventory they had lost in the earthquake.
CIDA supports the construction of a new earthquake-resistant health centre in Trouin. The earthquake of January 12, 2010, destroyed the previous health centre.
Amid the removal of the rubble and the debris in Port-au-Prince, some residents have been able to resume their normal lives.
The people of Léogâne thank Canada for its ongoing support for the HELP hospital. The Canadian Forces played a leading role in constructing an initial temporary hospital that provided urgently needed medical care to Léogâne residents in the aftermath of the earthquake.
A family in Calebasse, a district of Léogâne, struggles to begin anew after the earthquake.
In Calebasse, a district of Léogâne, Rose Sévère and her family await their CIDA-funded house built by the Canadian Red Cross.
A woman visits the Léogâne cemetery on All Saints' Eve. Located near Port-au-Prince, Léogâne was severely damaged by the earthquake of January 12, 2010.
Bien Aimé St-Firmin is a fisherman in Petite-Rivière-de-Nippes. He receives assistance from a fishery development project executed by Fondation Verte, a Haitian organization supported by CIDA.
A street vendor in Delmas 2, one of the many camps for displaced persons in Port-au-Prince.
Haiti's National Archives works with the Organization of American States as part of a CIDA-funded project to update and modernize Haiti's civil registry. As of November 2010, 4.7 million Haitians over 18 (94 percent of the population) are now registered—and able to vote. For more information, consult the Project Browser or read a story from the field about this project.
CIDA support for Haiti's reconstruction includes removal of rubble and debris.
The growing construction industry provides much-needed jobs in Port-au-Prince.
(From left to right): Michelobe, Belouze, and Coralie enjoy a nutritious lunch through the CIDA-funded school feeding project managed by the World Food Programme. These three female students are among the 400,000 schoolchildren receiving a meal a day at school.
Médecins du Monde Canada operates CIDA-funded mobile clinics in Cité Soleil (Port-au-Prince), providing urgently needed medical care for residents displaced by the earthquake.
CIDA support for Haiti's reconstruction includes removal of rubble and debris.
