Haiti Children's Response SitRep 22 Jan 2010
Lenore Ealy
HAITI EARTHQUAKE RESPONSE
Children’s Services SitRep, 22 Jan 2010
Prepared by Lenore Ealy, Project K.I.D., Inc. +1-317-502-2735
Project K.I.D. has been coordinating resources and information in order to plan for our initial response to children affected by Haiti earthquake and deemed a more comprehensive sitrep desirable both to enhance coordination among children’s service providers and to update the broader response community with knowledge of children’s needs.
Emergency and Respite Care Needed Across Country: Project KID and most other organizations focused on children’s needs affirm the need for emergency and respite child care activities as an immediate early step to remove children from ongoing physical dangers, possibility of predation, and to promote resilience. Many organizations affirm this need:
Project KID Advisor, Harold Koenig, MD, Vice Admiral (ret), Former Surgeon General of the Navy put it this way to us on 19 Jan 2010:
Few will understand just how
important this will be. Kids are resilient, but if you can get in there
and give them some help to get through this terrible initial period they may
turn out even stronger in the future. I believe more people can
experience Post Traumatic Growth than will suffer PTSD, if we just provide some
assistance to them early on, when they are overwhelmed. ProjectKid is
doing just that.
Project KID’s talking points on the need are at end of this document. We will continue to coordinate information and disseminate as widely as possible to response community. Welcome field updates from all parties directed to the contact above.
We will not try to capture all services that incidentally serve children as part of mass shelter and supply provision, but are seeking to capture urgent needs involving children, response activities targeted directly to children (Project KID’s PlayCare, Child Friendly Spaces, etc), unaccompanied minor services, family reunification services, and the like. Hopefully the sitrep will grow as a helpful tool.
For now will organize as:
URGENT NEEDS
CURRENT SERVICES/ISSUES
ORGANIZATION UPDATES
CONTACTS
URGENT NEEDS
(info to be pushed quickly to emergency responders)
Titanyen Orphanage needs water, food. From Southcom/APAN traffic (1-21-10): If anyone can provide coordinated to the Helping Haiti Orphanage in "Titanyen" Please post them. UN is trying to coord a response. If anyone has a POC in the vicinity please advise them of the below situation. It was called into DHS last night. Here is the correct SAT PHONE/LOCATION information: The name of the town is “Titanyen”, which is an approximate three (3) hour drive North of PAP.
Individuals at the school have been without water for 24 hours
SAT Phone 0081651458612 OR 0081651458615
500 children 40 miles N/NE of Port Au Prince with that have about 24 hours of food and water left!!! Can you please direct this to the appropriate personnel…
Unsolicited phone call from Ed Lord who is on the Board of the Minnesota InfraGard Chapter and is involved from an NGO standpoint in the relief operations underway for Haiti. He received communication from an individual named Jeff Gacec who is currently in Haiti with a group called Helping Haiti. Apparently, this facility has been isolated since the earthquake and is located approximately 30-40 miles N/NE of Port Au Prince. Within the facility are 400-500 children and they have about 24 hours of food and water left. They have not been able to get in contact with relief efforts there and are looking for assistance. They have 2 sat phones with the following numbers: 0088165158612 and 8615. They are requesting assistance from the US effort there and I understand that this organization is US based. Any assistance you can provide for what appears to be a potentially desperate situation is appreciated.
Beudet Orphanage needs supplies:
(from Southcom/APAN traffic). My
name is Luceanna Altino-Moore and I am the President and founder of an
organization by the name of OASIS for Children, Inc. We have an orphanage
located in Beudet in Haiti.Although the children and workers are all ok; they
are still sleeping outside and have no water and very little food.I have been
frantically trying to find some aide that is already on ground in Haiti that is
able to get to the children to give them some food and water, but I have had no
success thus far. I also have been trying to get into the country,but have had
no luck with that as well. I'm hoping I will be able to soon. Beudet is about
20 miles East of Por-Au-Prince. I would appreciate it so much if someone can
take supplies over to the kids at the orphanage in Beudet. It is about 1 or 2
miles down passed Qoua-des-bouquer.Please help me, I'm so wrried about the
children at the wokers.
Beudet is located here: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?minlon=-72.2417369&minlat=18.584407&maxlon=-72.2017369&maxlat=18.624407
Haiti Medical
Infrastructure Situation: Accompanying file provides info
on current medical infrastructure. Child
responders can assume there are needs for children’s services/spaces/activities
at these locations. Contact for file: MAJ Shawn
Powell, Civil Affairs Officer, USSOUTHCOM J9; DSN 567-1649; Comm: (305) 437-1649;
murray...@hq.southcom.mil
CURRENT SERVICES/ISSUES/TOOLS
Can’t populate much info here yet, but goal is to gather from all responders info/updates as to where children’s services are currently in place.
Welcome coordination with tech community volunteers to help us research, map and update locations as reports received.
World Vision Centers: World vision opened two children's centres at the San Jose Recovery Centre and the Good Samaritan Hospital at the Haiti-Dominican Republic border town of Jimani. The centres, called "Child-Friendly Spaces," are designed to provide children with a safe and structured place to go during crises. [we will work on getting coordinates for these locations]
Pediatric Support: : Haiti Relief from Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare
Le Bonheur Childrens has been asked by the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to provide medical assistance to Haiti. Le Bonheur staff organizing supplies and pharmaceuticals to be delivered to Haiti. Two pediatric medical teams have also been requested—a surgical critical care team and a critical care transport team. The three-person Le Bonheur transport team will consist of a registered nurse, paramedic and respiratory therapist. Surgeons, anesthesiologists, critical care physicians, critical care nurses and respiratory therapists are being identified for the surgical critical care transport team.
Adoptions and Orphans (from U.S. Government Haiti Earthquake Disaster Response Update, 21 Jan 2010. via relief web http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/LSGZ-7ZXJVJ?OpenDocument&rc=2&emid=EQ-2010-000009-HTI)
Yesterday, Secretary Clinton announced that the State Department is heading up a joint task force with the Departments of Homeland Security and Health and Human Services to focus on orphans and unaccompanied minors, to streamline the process of adoptions, and to ensure that these families are united as quickly as possible while still ensuring that proper safeguards are in place to protect children in our care. An interagency working group has been established to focus on the humanitarian needs of highly vulnerable children. And the Administration is also working closely with the many Members of Congress who are understandably very concerned about this process.
On Monday, Secretary Napolitano announced humanitarian parole for certain Haitian orphans. We remain focused on family reunification and must be vigilant not to separate children from relatives in Haiti who are still alive but displaced, or to unknowingly assist criminals who traffic in children in such desperate times. To do so, we strongly discourage the use of private aircraft to evacuate orphans. All flights must be appropriately coordinated with the U.S. and Haitian governments to ensure proper clearances are granted before arrival in the United States.
CHILD PROTECTION (predation/trafficking): excerpt from AlertNet story by Laurie Goering: http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900sid/SNAA-7ZX5EZ?OpenDocument&rc=2&emid=EQ-2010-000009-HTI
Even before the earthquake, Haiti had an estimated 300,000 abandoned or orphaned children, and a serious problem with child trafficking, Ducoc said. More than 100,000 girls aged 6 to 17 were working as domestic servants, in situations that often left them vulnerable to violence or neglect, according to UNICEF. Those girls, far from their families at the time of the earthquake, "are now completely vulnerable if they survived," said Ducoc, who recently completed a report for Amnesty International on Haitian girls in domestic service
ORGANIZATIONS
For this initial sitrep we’ve gone out to organization websites and collated info from their online updates. Info will get better faster if we can get contacts from all organizations copying us on their updates. We’re trying to follow tweets, facebook, reliefnet, and other nets with links.
!!Trying to locate contact info for field responders.
Links to needed info clearinghouses are welcome!!
PROJECT KID: (PlayCare)
GOAL: Facilitate effective response to children by:
· Engaging local and arriving responders in deployment of emergency and respite child care in key locations
· Providing field expertise, knowledge, and technical consulting to all groups needing flexible and workable solutions for meeting the emergency needs of children for safe and developmentally appropriate care
· Providing informed situational analysis and reports on children’s needs
· Partnering with civil, military, and NGO coordination centers to support orphan identification and all-around response efforts
· Child response community sitreps/coordination
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TIMELINE |
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27 Jan |
PKID Field Director Paige Ellison-Smith to arrive Santo Domingo Delta
599, 2:15 pm Travel arrangements to Haiti |
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28-29 Jan |
Initial assessments, identify at least 3 target locations/partners |
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29 Jan-3 Feb |
Train volunteers and mobilize existing and arriving supplies for purposeful use for children’s needs. |
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3-10 Feb |
Identify additional needs in country Reachback to Stateside networks to mobilize additional assets. |
KEY ACTIONS: In Haiti, the Project KID PlayCare Model can engage and quickly empower available local and visiting volunteers at various locations where large numbers of children, with or without families, are gathered. These locations would include hospitals, major points of distribution where security is very heavy, churches or church camps, aid sites, etc. Project KID can teach responders how to select supplies from the pallets that are beginning to flow into distribution points; erect safety perimeters with available materials (coolers, construction netting, crates, etc.); police the ground for hazards; use tarps and tents for activity shelters. These spaces will be set up in highly visible locations to reduce risks to children, to provide them as much safety as possible in the current circumstances, and to initiate connection to case management entities. Requests for additional targeted supplies based on need can be issued to Project KID’s networks and mobilized for shipment to Haiti.
CONTACTS:
Lenore T. Ealy, Ph.D. Paige T. Ellison-Smith, M.S.Ed.
hold...@gmail.com pai...@msn.com
UNICEF (from UNICEF website and http://www.unmultimedia.org/tv/unifeed/d/14248.html )
Unicef has been working in Haiti since 1949 and works directly with Haiti's government on developing long term solutions to current problems caused by poverty and lack of basic health care, education and sanitation services.
Initial response focused on providing family kits (cooking equipment and basic supplies for families standard medical kits that have all the medicines we know needed in this situation. UNICEF is deploying necessary supplies to Jacmel and Port-au-Prince to assist with the recovery efforts including clean water and sanitation, therapeutic foods, medical supplies and temporary shelter.
UNICEF has begun the process of reuniting children with their families or other caregivers, working in coordination with the Haitian Government, Save the Children and the Red Cross. UNICEF and its partners are also establishing safe spaces for separated children and providing food and supplies for orphanages in Port-au-Prince, the hard-hit capital.
SAVE THE CHILDREN: (from STC website, twitter)
Save the Children has worked in Haiti since 1978 and currently has about 200 staff on the ground. With offices in Port-au-Prince, Save the Children is racing to provide immediate lifesaving assistance, such as food, water, shelter and Child Friendly Spaces. This week, Save the Children started setting up the first of many Child Friendly Spaces planned for shelters and camps housing earthquake survivors. Forty children have already been registered and we are expecting another 250 children to start activities today.
Save the Children will be receiving six plane loads of supplies with urgently need relief items in the coming week.
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-8Wd7IR4Vs
Blog: http://savethechildren.typepad.com/
MERCY CORPS (Comfort for Kids program)
From Relief Web.. blog entry -- a comprehensive psychosocial approach to rehabilitating the young survivors in Haiti. After the physical wounds from this traumatic event heal, psychological trauma remains long afterward -- if untreated, it can last forever.
In the last few days, I began collaborating with my partners on materials development that will address the unique needs of this disaster, e.g. high number of deaths, displacement, extreme losses, hunger, thirst. Our aim is not to be mental health providers, but to develop simple messages and materials for parents and educators locally, so they can support the needs of kids. My hope is to have the program up and running in about a month.
Once I am in Haiti, my focus is to assess the needs of the local mental health professionals and parents. Next will be finding printing vendors and translators to help with putting together the workbook publications. My hope is to complete as much of the process locally as possible.
WORLDVISION: Child Friendly Spaces (from 16 Jan 2010)
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/fromthefield/477686/126360698154.htm)
At this point in the response, World Vision is urging relief workers to address children's most urgent needs: � reunification with their surviving family members � health care and basic services, and � protection from exploitation.
World Vision is preparing to establish "child-friendly spaces" in the quake zone as soon as the necessary supplies arrive in Haiti. Child-friendly spaces are structured and safe areas set up specifically for children and youth in crisis situations, where they can play and receive support services.
CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN DISASTER SERVICES
The Church of the Brethren and its Brethren Disaster Ministries, including its Children’s Disaster Services unit, has established resources and capacity to respond already in place because of the current rebuilding project following the four hurricanes and tropical storms that hit Haiti in 2008. Brethren Disaster Ministries will be working with Global Mission Partnerships and the Haitian Brethren congregations on a long-term response to this earthquake.
Earlier this week, CWS had arranged for one air shipment and one ocean shipment. The air shipment of 14,743 pounds of blankets, baby kits, hygiene kits, flashlights, and toothpaste left New Windsor on Tuesday, bound for Haiti. The ocean shipment of a 40-foot container of blankets, baby kits, and hygiene kits was scheduled to leave New Windsor January 20.
SAMARITAN’S PURSE
Samaritan’s Purse currently has a team on the ground in Haiti providing clean water, shelter, medical care, and assisting with other emergency needs in the aftermath of last week’s devastating earthquake. The primary need is for trained disaster workers and we are not sending volunteers at this time.
KIDS ALIVE http://www.kidsalive.org/haiti-relief/
January 21, 2010 - Children have been evacuated to Santa Domingo and being treated for dehydration. These first 26 kids will be released into our care Friday. Down load the latest update or a power point to share with your friends and church.
January 20, 2010 - Kids Alive has been in contact with officials from the US and DR government to facilitate receiving the displaced children. After shocks rattled nerves at our home in Cap Haitien but caused no damage. The first construction team will be heading down next week to build temporary houses and bathrooms.
January 18, 2010 - In cooperation with other ministries, Kids Alive DR is transporting a bus load of fuel to keep a hospital, just outside of Port au Prince, back up generators working. This hospital has been swamped with earthquake victims and would have had no power tomorrow without this fuel. Our site in Cap Haitien is being supplied with tents, cots, and sleeping bags to prepare for the arrival of evacuated children. Our homes in the DR are buying supplies and more beds for the arrivals. Staff and kids are excited to be part of the rescue efforts.
January 15, 2010 - Field Director, Vic Trautwein, has met with government officials in the DR. Lost children and orphans are being identified now and may start arriving in the DR Kids Alive facilities as early as Monday! We are making plans for their arrival. Please pray!
January 14, 2010 - Missionaries in Haiti express concern for increased cost of basic supplies like food and fuel. Plans are being made to take in as many orphans as we can as soon as they have been identified by officials into our unharmed housing in the north of Haiti and possibly in the DR.
CONTACTS
We will continue to work to update with more accurate field contacts
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CONTACT |
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RESOURCES |
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Paige Ellison-Smith |
PKID Field Coordinator |
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Lenore Ealy Project KID |
Skype: Lenore.Ealy
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PKID US Coordinator |
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Luke Beckman |
1-650-740-5853SKYPE:lukebeckman |
INSTEDD, coordination Tech community links |
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John Howe President Project HOPE |
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Medical supplies, storage space in SD, transport into Haiti, A |
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Lisa Orloff World Cares Center
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917-566-3908 (global) |
Logistics, supplies |
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US Southcom Commander General Doug Fraser |
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Commander of Joint Task Force Haiti (JTF-H), LTG Ken Keen |
Joint Task Force – Haiti 1. Operations Officer: +1 301-985-9412
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CDR Michele Hancock, USSOUTHCOM Medical and Health Lead:
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Health Cluster – US Military Support |
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. 2. CAPT Miguel Cubano, USSOUTHCOM Command Surgeon: |
Health Cluster – US Military Support |
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John Dunlop, USAID Officer of Military Affairs Health Officer: |
Health Cluster – US Military Support |
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Shawn Powell |
Medical Infrastructure Maps/Info |
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USSOUTHCOM Haiti HA/DR Battle Staff (24hr Operation)
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1. Battle Captain: +1 305-437-0247 2. Battle Staff: +1 305-437-3742/0241/0245/0246/0248 3. USSOUTHCOM APAN RFI Manager bounce-kei...@apanmail.org
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Health Cluster – US Military Support |
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US Army Contacts
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95th Civil Affairs Brigade (95th CA BDE) 95th_CA...@ahqb.soc.mil |
Health Cluster – US Military Support |
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USAID Disaster Assistance Response Team (USAID/DART)
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USAID is the United States Government lead federal agency for the disaster response. You can find detailed information on how to help at their website:
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Save the Children Kate Conradt, Media contact |
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202-640-6631 |
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UNICEF UNICEF Chief of Child Protection Susan Bissell |
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Unaccompanied minors family reunification |
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World Vision |
Rachel Wolff 253-394-2214 Casey Calamusa 206-310-5476 Geraldine Ryerson-Cruz 202-615-2608 |
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Project K.I.D. PLAYCARE
2005 Social Entrepreneurship Award Winner, Manhattan Institute
INITIAL RESPONSE PLAN FOR HAITI EARTHQUAKE CRISIS
TALKING POINTS
· -In 2009 over 3.4 million children, ages 0-14 lived in Haiti. That is over 38% of the total Haitian population.
· -With as many as 200,000 Haitians projected dead from the earthquake, thousands and thousands of young Haitian children are now left as known orphans, virtual orphans whose parents cannot be found, and children whose parents may be alive but are among Haiti’s traumatized population, most of whom are struggling to obtain the most basic needs for safety, food and water.
· -In the hours after Hurricane Katrina made landfall, Project KID saw the need for uninjured children to be planned for and cared for in the earliest stage of disaster response. Project KID called this Phase 1 Response, Emergency Child Care.
· -Haiti is in dire need of Phase 1 Response, Emergency Child Care.
· -In the absence of a meaningful and scalable plan to care for the many young children that no longer have parents, the number of physically injured and emotionally traumatized will needlessly increase.
· -In the absence of a meaningful, rapidly deployable and scalable plan for abandoned babies and young children, first responders including highly skilled search and rescue personnel, trained medical experts, remaining governmental officials, and the military are faced with caring for these children rather than doing their jobs.
· -Project KID cared for over 5,600 children in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. This was done with almost no funding by assessing and effectively using the available disaster supplies pouring in to set up safe PlayCare sites throughout the affected region. This model, which was effectively tested in 2005 and in disaster exercises since, is absolutely effective for Haiti at this point in time.
· -The purpose of the Project KID PlayCare model is to hold children safe in the earliest stages of a disaster and until better provisions and resources for long-term recovery can arrive.
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Lenore T. Ealy, Ph.D.
len...@thinkitecture.com
317-502-2735