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General facts

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  • 70% of jobs are in the informal economy
  • 25% of people live in extreme poverty
  • 50% of the population is under 20 years old
  • Port-au-Prince, the capital, has a population of 3.5 million
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What happened?

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  • magnitude 7 earthquake
  • conservative plate margin
  • shallow focus of 5 miles
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Primary impacts

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  • 316,000 killed, 1 million homeless
  • 250,000 homes and 60% of government building destroyed or damaged
  • 50 hospitals and 1,300 schools destroyed
  • main prison destroyed, 4,000 inmates escaped
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Secondary impacts

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  • 20% of people lost their jobs because of building collapse
  • hospitals and morgues were full so bodies were piled up on the streets
  • this led to the spread of diseases, especially cholera
  • hard to get aid into the area because the airport was destroyed and the country was massively disorganised
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Short-term responses

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+810,000 people placed in aid camps
+$100 million given by USA, $330 million by the EU
-lack of immediate aid because of poor planning so search and rescue had to be done by locals
+4.3 million provided with food rations in the following weeks

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Long-term responses

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-by 2015, incomes, health, housing and food supply remained worse than pre-disaster levels
+water and sanitation eventually supplied for 1.7 million people
-1 million people still without houses by 2011 so have to live in aid camps
+temporary schools and new teachers trained