Haiti earthquake: Cash-for-work
Oxfam has launched several cash-for-work projects, which give those living in camps a chance to earn an income while improving their environment by building latrines and clearing rubble.
Residents clean up the camp on the Petionville golf course in Port-au-Prince as part of Oxfam's cash-for-work programme. Thousands of people moved to the camp after they were made homeless by the earthquake on 12 January 2010.
Photo: Coco McCabe/Oxfam America
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Our cash-for-work projects give those living in camps a chance to earn an income while improving their environment.
Here a man is being employed to dig a hole for an Oxfam latrine.
Photo: Coco McCabe/Oxfam America
Sanitation is one of Oxfam's priorities in Haiti now to prevent the spread of diseases among people living in crowded makeshift camps.
In this photo, cash-for-work participants build a platform for latrines.
Photo: Coco McCabe/Oxfam America
Here a latrine frame is being constructed out of locally sourced timber. We have now switched to using imported timber because deforestation is a major problem in Haiti. A recent Oxfam report shows that 98% of trees have been cut down, making Haiti vulnerable to landslides.
Photo: Coco McCabe/Oxfam America
Residents clean up around the newly constructed Oxfam latrines at the camp on the Petionville golf course.
Photo: Coco McCabe/Oxfam America
A man employed by employed in Oxfam's cash-for-work programme carries material for “family kits” in Cité Soleil, Port-au-Prince, Haiti. These family kits contain basic hygiene and kitchen items and are distributed to 10,000 households affected by the earthquake
Photo: Caroline Gluck
Men and women employed in Oxfam's cash-for-work programme put together “family kits” in Cité Soleil, Port-au-Prince.
Photo: Caroline Gluck
Each kit contains: two towels, four bowls, four plates, four knives, four forks, four spoons, eight bars laundry soap, four large cups, two tubes toothpaste, eight bars soap (personal), four toothbrushes, two hairbrushes, 12 packets shampoo, eight packets conditioner and 40 sanitary towels. The contents are modified for family size where practical.
Photo: Caroline Gluck
Another element of our programme includes clearing debris. Here residents clean up the Tapis Rouge camp in the Carrefour Feuilles neighbourhood of Port-au-Prince.
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