{"id":151508,"date":"2020-01-13T12:00:30","date_gmt":"2020-01-13T12:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=151508"},"modified":"2020-01-12T10:50:26","modified_gmt":"2020-01-12T10:50:26","slug":"34000-haitians-still-displaced-10-years-on-from-quake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2020\/01\/34000-haitians-still-displaced-10-years-on-from-quake\/","title":{"rendered":"34,000 Haitians Still Displaced 10 Years on from Quake"},"content":{"rendered":"

The head of the IOM\u2019s mission in Haiti also discussed the modern-day threats and political instability many Haitians face which shares a border with the crisis-hit country.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The International Organization for Migration believes those internal refugees will remain permanently displaced. | Photo: Reuters<\/p><\/div>\n

10 Jan 2020 – <\/em>There are at least 34,000 people living in displacement camps 10 years after a devastating earthquake<\/a> struck Haiti.<\/p>\n

Just shy of a decade since the temblor brought the island nation to its knees on Jan. 12, 2010, the head of the IOM\u2019s mission in Haiti, Giuseppe Loprete, told EFE about how the organization has intervened to help the population.<\/p>\n

When the\u00a0earthquake\u00a0hit Haiti in 2010,\u00a0there were 1.5 million displaced people in over 1,500 camps and displacement sites, he said.<\/p>\n

“Now, we have about 22 displaced sites that are still open and 34,000 people still living in the situation of displacement, although we have to say that, after 10 years, for many of them this has become the normal situation.”<\/p>\n

According to him, they are not either willing or do not have the possibility to move out of the displacement site, while some are even doing construction, trying to settle in these areas.<\/p>\n

Related: Chile’s MPs Reject Proposal to Probe Troops’ Abuses in Haiti<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In the camps, he reported that\u00a0there was no electricity for most of the day, access to waters if difficult, there are areas that you can see just walking around that are very overcrowded, overpopulated.<\/p>\n

Since the crisis has left 3.7 million people with food insecurity, there has been a boost in immigration, and a lot of people \u2013 at least one member of the family, mostly men between 18-35 years old \u2013 are looking for job opportunities, especially in Brazil but also in the Bahamas.<\/p>\n

It is estimated that around 1.5-2 million Haitians are living abroad, corresponding to\u00a0one-fifth of the population –\u00a0mostly in Canada, the US, Brazil and Chile.<\/p>\n

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10 Jan 2020 – In the camps, the head of the IOM\u2019s mission in Haiti reported that there was no electricity for most of the day, access to waters if difficult, there are areas that are very overcrowded, overpopulated. They are not either willing or do not have the possibility to move out of the displacement site, while some are even doing construction, trying to settle in these areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":151509,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[550,975,541,996,1334],"class_list":["post-151508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latin-america-and-the-caribbean","tag-corruption","tag-haiti","tag-latin-america-caribbean","tag-poverty","tag-social-conflict"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}