Wednesday, August 25, 2021, as part of the major earthquake of 7.2 on the Richter scale which hit the southern peninsula of Haiti hard, Prime Minister ai Ariel Henry launched the "Emergency Alert" Program at the General Directorate of Civil Protection (DGPC)

Designed within the framework of Haiti's National Development and Recovery Plan (PDNA), in partnership with the UN, the World Bank, the European Union and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the "Emergency Alert" Program aims to provide vital multisectoral assistance to people affected by the August 14 earthquake. It also aims to support livelihoods and basic services in the areas affected by the earthquake. The Prime Minister recalled that by launching this Program, the Government wants to emphasize the importance of making a good bridge between emergency and development, between the short term and the long term.

Ariel Henry believes that this mobilization of resources is all the more crucial since it concerns all the strategic needs such as : drinking water infrastructure, deeply damaged, thus exposing the population not only to water scarcity, but also to the risks of infections (cholera, malaria) and without forgetting the fight against food and nutritional insecurity affecting nearly 40% of the overall Haitian population.

In addition, the Prime Minister reaffirmed on his Twitter account the determination of his Government to support parents, teachers and students in the great South. Question of facilitating the resumption of school activities, as quickly as possible and under better conditions "The return to school is one of the main priorities of the government. Therefore, we are committed to clearing the sites of collapsed schools. We will also support the parents of students and teachers decapitalized, following the earthquake that devastated the southern peninsula."

This launch took place in the presence of Minister Dieuseul Simon Desras (Planning), Jean Emmanuel Jacquet (Culture), Mrs. Hélène La Lime Representative of the Secretary General of the United Nations, Humanitarian Coordinator Bruno Lemarquis and Deputy Relief Coordinator of emergency, Ramesh Rajasingham.

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