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CERF allocates $2 million to earthquake affected Haitians in the Dominican Republic
29 January 2010: CERF has allocated $2 million to boost efforts in the Dominican Republic to assist people affected by the devastating earthquake in Haiti earlier this month.
Haitians affected by the earthquake continue to cross the border into the Dominican Republic to seek medical attention, stretching hospitals and health care centers in the border region to the limit. As a large part of the aid delivered in Haiti depends on the route through the Dominican Republic, facilitating the transportation of material and human resources from the international community into Haiti is a priority.
CERF funds will therefore boost programmes to meet needs in several sectors including health, shelter, and logistics. The largest portion of this allotment, some $1 million dollars, will go to the World Health Organization (WHO) and United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) programmes to bolster health services for Haitians who are seeking emergency help in clinics in border regions. Another $500,000 will go to the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to provide urgently needed shelter supplies and logistics support to the humanitarian pipeline into Haiti. Shelter activities will address the needs of those displaced along the border, and those released after receiving medical care by the Dominican national health services. The remainder of the CERF funding will go to programmes including those to prevent gender-based violence among the displaced. [Last Update: 3 February 2010]
CERF in Dominican Republic 2007