Work is underway to improve living conditions for thousands of
displaced people camping out in makeshift shelter in spontaneous
settlements in the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince until more
durable shelter solutions are found.

A group of settlements to be cleaned, organized and provided
with clean water and sanitation were on a priority list provided by
Haiti's Civil Protection, based on numbers of people on site and
shelter materials available.

Non-governmental organization (NGO) partners working with IOM to
provide shelter and non-food assistance to Haitian earthquake
victims have started work at some sites.

Islamic Relief  UK and Portuguese Civil Defence are working
to improve shelter conditions for more than 1,200 people at the
Parc Saint-Clair and Parc Colofer settlements in Delmas 33
neighbourhood. 

The Salvation Army has begun site planning and organization at
two adjoining settlements, while more permanent shelter solutions
are made available for its 3,000 residents. 

In the city of Leogane, the French NGO ACTED is distributing
1,400 shelter box tents to 14,000 people.

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Other partners such as AMURTEL have requested tents and plastic
sheeting to assist more than 6,000 families (about 30,000 people)
living in a makeshift settlement in the Bourdon area of
Port-au-Prince, and to place people being discharged from
hospitals. 

Many other requests have been received to improve settlements in
rural areas but the stock available has so far not been able to
meet the demand.

Priority needs across the board remain tents and shelter kits,
tarpaulins, plastic sheets, blankets, jerry cans, hygiene and
kitchen kits and water purifying tablets.

Yesterday, IOM received 14 container trucks of relief items
donated by the United States government via the relief land
corridor from the Dominican Republic, and the first of several
containers of relief items provided by USAID/OFDA at the recently
reopened seaport in Port-au-Prince. 

Meanwhile, work continues at the first site identified for the
establishment of an organized tented settlement in the suburb of
Croix-des-Bouquets where a Brazilian battalion deployed with
MINUSTAH is now working on establishing water and sanitation
facilities. The Inter-American Development Bank is planning to
build permanent homes for 10,000 people at the site
simultaneously.

Two more sites identified by the Haitian government for
organized temporary settlements in Route de Tabarre in
Port-au-Prince and in Leogane will require water and sanitation
facilities before tents can be set up and displaced people
relocated there.

So far, IOM, government and NGO partners have identified 591
improvised settlements with an estimated population of 692,000
people displaced in the Port-au-Prince area alone. However, it is
likely that this figure is much higher even though many people have
left the capital to seek shelter in other towns and villages.

IOM and partners are seeking to reach about 200,000 families
(one million people) with shelter and non-food assistance.

In response to an initial appeal launched on 15 January and
which will be shortly revised to better reflect the scale of needs
in the country, the Organization had asked for USD 30 million to
provide emergency shelter and non-food assistance and to establish
a cash-for-work programme that would include rubble removal.

IOM has so far received pledges totalling USD 19.6 million from
the US government (OFDA/USAID), Sweden, Canada, France, Finland,
Korea, the UN's Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF), the Clinton
Foundation and Argos Cement Company of Colombia to support ongoing
relief operations and future rebuilding efforts.

Private donations can be made to IOM through the IOM
website at "http://www.iom.int" target="" title="">www.iom.int and in the
United States at "http://www.usaim.org/PROJECTHaiti.asp" target="_blank" title=
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For further information, please contact:

Niurka Pineiro

Port au Prince

Tel: + 509 3490 6678

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or  

Jean Philippe Chauzy

Tel: + 41 22 717 9361

       + 41 79 285 4366 

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Jemini Pandya

Tel: + 41 22 717 9486

       + 41 79 217 3374

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