IOM aims to increase joint distributions of food and non-food
emergency relief items with the UN's World Food Programme (WFP),
following funding pledges and in-kind support from the US
government's Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA).

Two cargo planes carrying emergency relief supplies from the
USAID/OFDA Miami warehouse landed overnight in Port-au-Prince with
2,800 hygiene kits, 6,000 ten-litre water containers, 480 kitchen
sets, and two mobile water treatment units. Another shipment from
USAID/OFDA containing tents and cots is expected to arrive over the
weekend.

Arrangements have been made with the Canadian forces stationed
at the airport to receive and offload the aircraft. IOM has also
secured trucks and is looking at increasing its warehousing
space.

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"Relief items are expected to be dispersed rather quickly as
IOM, WFP and UNICEF aim to cover some 60,000 individuals per day,"
says IOM's Chief of Mission in Haiti Vincent Houver.

Yesterday, IOM and WFP distributed food and non-food items
including tarpaulins, plastic sheeting, jerry cans, bladders, and
some shelter material to some 8,000 people in three locations in
the capital Port-au-Prince.

With traffic in the capital on the increase as many inhabitants
seek to leave, IOM and its partners are planning to carry out
distributions in the early hours of the day the avoid delays in
meeting planned distribution
schedules.     

In the coastal city of Jacquemel in South-western Haiti, where
scores of houses and building were reduced to rubble, IOM has
distributed 18,000 aquatabs, 600 jerry cans, 300 hygiene and
kitchen kits, 600 mosquito nets, as well as plastic sheeting and
tarpaulins.

Due to on-going operations in Haiti prior to Tuesday's
devastating earthquake, IOM has a stockpile of non-food items to
assist 10,000 families. However a far greater level of support is
needed urgently to assist the hundreds of thousands of families
displaced or affected by the earthquake.  

As the lead agency for Emergency Shelter and Non-Food Items
(NFIs) for Haiti's Earthquake relief, IOM is requesting some US$30
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yesterday in New York. With the true scale of the disaster still
unfolding, this figure is likely to change in the coming
weeks. 

A US$ 1,1 million allocation from the UN Central Emergency
Response Fund (CERF) will allow IOM to procure shelter, including
tents, plastic sheeting and other life-saving assistance for
victims of the quake.

IOM and its partners, which include Haiti's Civil Protection
Department and the Ministry of Social Affairs, IFRC, Concern
Worldwide, CRS, Save the Children, OXFAM, ACTED, CARE, UN-HABITAT,
will focus on providing immediate support to an estimated one
million families left homeless or temporarily displaced from their
homes through the repair and cleaning of temporary shelters and
damaged private houses, and the provision of NFIs.

Families that can return to their original houses will be
encouraged and supported to do so; while those whose homes have
been destroyed but who have family or friends that can offer them
shelter, will be encouraged and supported to stay with those
families. And those who cannot return to their homes and cannot
stay with host families will be supported in the temporary shelters
(camps, collective centres and spontaneous settlements).

IOM has been working in Haiti since 1994. IOM Haiti is part of
the UN Country Team and works closely with UN partners on emergency
and early recovery.

To support IOM's disaster relief operations in Haiti, please go
to "http://www.iom.int">www.iom.int.

For more information, please contact:

Jean-Philippe Chauzy

IOM Geneva

Tel: +41 22 717 93 61

      +41 79 285 43 66

Email: "mailto:jpchauzy@iom.int">jpchauzy@iom.int