Haiti, one year after the earthquake - Shoreline-based World Concern is there to help

The magnitude 7.0 earthquake that struck Haiti on January 12, 2010 caused widespread damage in Port-au-Prince.

Shoreline-based humanitarian organization World Concern has been working in Haiti for 30 years, so when the earthquake one year ago devastated the island nation, World Concern was already on the scene and moved quickly into action.

World Concern Haiti staff members distributed emergency supplies to 100,000 people immediately after the earthquake in January 2010.

In spite of the cholera epidemic, political rioting, and continuing problems, or perhaps because of those problems, World Concern celebrates its successes.

Widzer Stevern lost his daughter in the earthquake. He and his surviving family members received a house from World Concern, which Widzer has improved with a porch, bathroom and dining room. He used income earned through World Concern’s Cash for Work program to help pay for the improvements.

See the excellent World Concern report: Haiti:One Year Later

World Concern, part of CRISTA Ministries, is a Christian humanitarian organization that helps lift people out of poverty through activities including microfinance, agriculture, disaster response and small business development. World Concern works with the poor in 22 countries, with the goal of transforming the lives of those we touch, leading them on a path to self-sustainability. Worldwide, World Concern offers life, opportunity and hope to nearly six million people.