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Highlights: Providing homes, schools, food and a better future for the Haitian people
- The UN continues to provide and coordinate wide-scale humanitarian assistance in response to the 12 January 2010 earthquake and cholera epidemic.
- Donors pledged $10 billion at the UN donors’ conference to make a difference in the lives of suffering Haitians.
- Almost 90 per cent of the $4.6 billion pledged for 2010 and 2011 is coming through for those who need it (disbursed or committed).
- 100,000 temporary shelters have been constructed.
- About two-thirds of all internally displaced persons (IDPs) have left the camps (IDP camp population down by 65 per cent).
- 50 per cent of rubble has now been removed.
- 600 + schools have been reconstructed or repaired.
- More children go to school now than before quake – including 80 per cent in IDP camps.
- 400,000 Haitians have been provided with short-term employment in labor-intensive projects.
- Legislative and presidential elections have been held and a peaceful transfer of power ensured.
- UN peacekeepers provide security and combat sexual and gender-based violence at IDP camps.
- The cholera fatality rate has been lowered to 1.3 per cent.
