Annual Summary Haiti

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Yearly Summary 2010Summary of the progress made one year after the earthquake


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2010 will be orever marked within the short history o Un Techopara mi Pais as the year in which work in Haiti began. The ear-thquake was the catalyst that accelerated our plans to intervenegiven that 300,000 people died and 1.3 million were let homelessas a result o the January 12 earthquake. The disaster accentua-

ted the precarious situation o a country whose last decades havebeen defned by economic hardships, environmental degradation,violence, instability and de acto governments who have turnedthe country into the poorest one in the Hemisphere. What littleinstitutions existed beore the event ell to the ground with therest o the country. Chaos and anarchy were contained thanks tothe in-country presence o MINUSTAH, but carrying out any addi-tional activities proved to be a hard task.

This was the context when we frst began our work. Add to that aseries o requent questions and doubts about how we would workin Haiti: There is no culture o volunteerism in Haiti, you will notbe able to engage youth to participate in your project, yourNGO is too small, you wont get the attention you need in-countrylike other more established organizations, it is too risky, Hai-ti is a very dangerous country amongst others. However, atera year ull o challenges and painul moments, there is also anincreasing number o success stories: we improved the housing

situation o 826 amilies living in tents; over 130 Haitian men andwomen have jobs thanks to the pre-abrication actory we helpedestablish; 2,800 young volunteers have been mobilized helpingto close the gap between Dominican and Haitian youth throughwork with the largest universities in the country; we are legallyconstituted as a Haitian oundation; and, a new team to supportthe issue o health and prevention as a reaction to the choleraepidemic has been created. Our eorts have been very successul,but more importantly, our true impact on Haitian society comesrom our style and model o implementation.

We are an NGO that began in Latin America, where countries havebeen fghting poverty or a long time. This means a lot becauseit defnes the ways in which we have to ace this problem that

aects so many societies. Our model o intervention is dierent,we try to penetrate the most proound nucleus o society, bridgingthe gap between worlds apart: the world o those excluded be-cause o their conditions o poverty and the world o people withgreat opportunities. We invite youth to react to this reality and to

become protagonists o the historic and development processeso their countries. The construction o transitional houses withvolunteers brings realities together, makes volunteers conscien-tious o their surroundings, and encourages the creation o rela-tionships and social networks. Youth volunteers are the hope andthe driving orce to achieve real structural transormations; theyare the means to end with injustice and inequality.

Ours is a continent plagued by words, speeches, theories, perso-nalities, experiments and magnetic revolutions that intertwinewith necessity, hope and dreams, but that seldom end well. Thereis great urgency to propose an alternative that has a real impactand that invites people to mobilize or something tangible, usingtheir hands, working rom the simple, the small, the basic, theordinary. The work o Un Techo para mi Pais in Haiti during thiswhole year is concrete proo that with small gestures and com-mitments, with limited resources and indefnite waiting, we can

change the reality o a country that many have abandoned and isjust yearning or another chance.

Alexander Kliwadenko RichaudSocial Director

Un Techo para mi Pas - Hait

Implementation o the project in Haiti

Un Techo Para Mi Pas (UTPMP) is a Latin American non-prot or-ganiation led by youth rom dierent countries within the region.Every day, thousands o university students and young proessio-nals work alongside amilies living in slums to improve their quali-ty o lie. In order to achieve sustainable communities, our model

o intervention, encourages the development, organiation andstrengthening o networks.

With presence in 19 countries, UTPMP oces in Argentina, Bolivia,Brail, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatema-la, Haiti, Honduras, Mxico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru,Dominican Republic, Uruguay and Veneuela are united throughthe work o thousands o volunteer and communities that ght ora just continent.

A Latin America without extreme poverty, where youth is commit-ted to conronting the challenges o their country and where everyamily has decent housing and real opportunities to improve theirquality o lie.

UTPMP works to combat the irregularity in which thousands oamilies are living in Latin America. The organiation counts on aprogram o social intervention that can be synthesied in three sta-

ges:

Construction o transitional houses

Implementation o Social Inclusion Programs that ocus on thedevelopment o sustainable communities.

The implementation o these stages is based on the experiencesand unique characteristics o each community and its amilies, hel-ping to develop a need-based intervention strategy.

UTPMP recognies the dignity, capabilities, and human rights oslum-dwellers that allow them to pull themselves out o povertyand create a well- rounded lie. UTPMP also works to incorporateslum- dwellers in social networks to overcome the social exclusiono the impoverished.

To improve the quality o lie o amilies living in conditions o po-verty through the construction o transitional houses and the im-plementation o Social Inclusion Programs. We denounce the pre-carious reality o the slums in which millions o people live in LatinAmerica and involve the general public in our commitment to builda more united, inclusive and just continent.

VISION

UTPMPs INTERVENTION

MISSION

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On January 12, a 7.3 magnitude earthquake shook Haiti and killed more than300,000 people, let over 1.3 million people injured or homeless, comple-tely destroyed 105,000 homes, and let more than 208,000 others severelydamaged. The nature o the catastrophe accelerated UTPMPs timeline orimplementation.UTPMP arrived in Port-au-Prince 48 hours ater the earthquake to carry outits rst assessment o damages, which rom the eld, would guide the planto begin work in the country in line with the commitment to work a longsidethe most vulnerable groups o Latin America.

Ater considering the countrys critical condition, UTPMP decided that oncethe health and saety crisis passed, a permanent intervention program that

included a local Un Techo para mi Pais oce would start.The objective was to support Haitis reconstruction by providing transitionalhousing, creating a concrete and ast solution or thousands o displacedamilies, and ultimately working with them to develop alternative answersto their housing needs. The implementation o Social Inclusion Programswould also help achieve the nal goal o creating sustainable and autono-mous communities.

Additionally UTPMP sought to involve Haitian youth in the project, in thereconstruction o their country and in the public concerns that shape theuture o Haiti in order to encourage them to lead the project.On February 27, 46 days ater the earthquake, the construction o UTPMPsrst 20 transitional houses began.Today, UTPMP Haiti is a reality; the ruit o the combined eorts o all theteams in the countries where UTPMP is present. There is no one to thankmore than the amilies that welcomed us, the eorts o the volunteers thatrecognie in Haiti a country that has not been destroyed, and to the organi-ations and companies that joined this dream: the dream o working along-side the amilies o displacement camps and slums in Haiti.

Our commitment in 2011 is to continue working along with the most vulnera-ble Haitian amilies while recogniing the many earthquakes that are notmeasured on the Richter scale, but rather on the harsher and bleaker Scaleo the Forgotten. This recognition enables us to encourage amilies to beprotagonists o their process o reconstruction.

Maximiliano PrezSocial Director or Latin America and the Caribbean

Un Techo para mi Pas

Context o UTPMPs intervention in Haiti

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Profle o the benefciary amilies o Un Techo para mi Pas*

72.39% Rented

11.85% Shared with amily or riend

5.69% Inherited3.98% Other 4.76% No Answer

1.33% OwnedHousing property

before tHe earquake

MontHs living in sluM

reason for not

returning HoMe85.41% Housing destroyed

2.66% No Answer4.68% Other

1.56% Increase in Crime Rates

1.95% Deplorable health conditions1.17% Reugee overcrowding

2.57% Housing in reconstruction

*Information obtained according to 1,300 surveys taken in the comnunity of Canaan.

37.99%No Answer

16.69%One to ve

45.32% Six to eleven

estiMated lengtH of tiMe tHey

will spend in tHe sluM

access to

drinking water

roof Material

35.49% Tarp

39.16% Plastic

16.93% Zinc Sheets

1.48% Other

6.94% No Answer

65.99% Water delivery trucks oh humanitarian aid

2.80% Rain

15.06% Water pump

10.30% Bottled o humanitarian aid3.04%No Answer

2.81% Other

84.07% More than ten years

3.3% One to ten years

12.50% No Answer


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Milestones2010


JANUARY

January 14: Two days ater the earthquake.UTPMP arrives in Port-au-Prince to gain rsthand knowledge about the countrys conditions ater the earthquake.

January 19: Seven days ater the earthquake.UTPMP launches a regional campaign to collect unds or its intervention in Haiti and denounces the conditions in which survivorslive.


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February 27:46 days ater the earthquake.UTPMP begins its rst construction, inaugurating the rst stage o intervention in Haiti. Twenty transi-tional houses are constructed in the town o Grand Goave (a city 70 kilometers to the south o Port-au-Prince) with the help o 98 volunteers rom dierent countries in Latin America.

FEBRUARY

March 19:66 days ater the earthquake.UTPMP begins its second construction in Grand Goave. With the help o 360 volunteers, 72 transitional housesare built.

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April 1: 79 days ater the earthquake.The third construction begins in the late hours o the evening with the construction o 24 transitional houses. Haitianamilies in the areas o Fauch and La Saline benet rom the construction.

APRIL

UTPMP and the IDB sign Un Techo para mi Pas: Emergency and Social Inclusion in Haiti an agreement supporting theconstruction o transitional houses and the implementation o Social Inclusion Programs in Haiti.

April 13: 91 days ater the earthquake.

May 8: 117 days ater the earthquake.The rst massive needs assessment is completed with the participation o 47 volunteers who carried out surveys to detectamilies with the greatest housing needs and identiy them as beneciaries in the next construction. This assessmentbegan to ully engage Haitian volunteers in the process o constructions.

MAY


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June 13: 152 days ater the earthquake.UTPMP signs an agreement with a local provider to pre-abricate UTPMPTs transitional houses creating 150 new jobs orHaitian workers.

JUNE

June 24: 163 days ater the earthquake.60 Haitian amilies begin the process o constructing their transitional houses with the help o 280 volunteers.

JULY

July 10: 179 days ater the earthquake.Beginning o UTPMPs work in Canaan (The community is located on the outskirts o Port au Prince, at the beginning o Route 1 leading tothe north o Haiti). The rst transitional house is constructed and becomes a workspace or the community organiing committee.

July 16: 185 days ater the earthquake .UTPMPs rst massive construction in Haiti begins. In one week, 450 volunteers help construct 150 transitional houses. Over 130 univer-sity students representing 9 Latin American countries work together with 320 Haitians who demonstrate their commitment to improvethe reality o their country.


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August 29: 229 days ater the earthquake.Sixth construction starts marking the beginning o the process o reconstruction and community development or 300 amilies in Cana-an. The commitment o Haitian volunteer students is clearly on the rise, accounting or 79% o the volunteers that participated in thisactivity.

AUGUST

September 28:259 days ater the earthquake.A delegation o teen Haitian volunteers travel to Santiago, Chile, to present the teams work at UTPMPs Fith Annual Latin AmericanYouth Summit. For our days, 2,000 volunteers rom nineteen countries where UTPMP is present denounced the reality o poverty in

which thousands o amilies live throughout the continent.

SEPTEMBER


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October 10: 271 days ater the earthquake.A delegation o eleven volunteers rom Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Uruguay arrive in Port-au-Prince to work with theHaitian team in the organiation o the construction o 1,000 transitional houses in January. Through the experience in each o thesevolunteers, UTPMP seeks to empower the local team through an introduction to institutional processes regarding the work dierent

October 17: 278 days ater the earthquake.The seventh construction begins. 200 transitional houses are constructed in one week with the participation o 600 volunteers, reachinghouse number 650 in Canaan in the nal construction o 2010.

October 26: 287 days ater the earthquake.In reaction to the health crisis ueled in part by the cholera epidemic aecting Haiti, UTPMP creates a Health and Security area within the teamwith the objective o bringing methods o prevention to the amilies o Canaan and to work in health saety plans or the constructions.

OCTOBER

November 1: 293 days ater the earthquake.UTPMP ocially inaugurates its rst oce on the premises o Fe y AlegrIa (Faith and Happiness), a Jesuit organiation.

November 13: 305 days ater the earthquake.A massive 48-hours needs assessment is completed with the participation o 70 volunteers.

November 18: 310 days ater the earthquake.The rst training o health monitors in the community o Canaan takes place. 30 community members are trained in methods or theprevention o cholera and set out to disseminate inormation within the community.

November 23: 315 days ater the earthquake.In the city o Georgetown (Guyana), UNASUR approves a project to work with UTPMP through the nancing o 1000 transitional housesto be completed throughout 2011.

NOVEMBER


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December 2: 324 days ater the earthquake.The municipality o Port-au-Prince and the Ministry o the Interior o the Republic o Haiti award UTPMP-Haiti legal status as a HaitianFoundation.

December 18: 340 days ater the earthquake.The rst round o sensibiliation and education on prevention against cholera begins in the community o Canaan. 89 students rom thenursing program at Universite Notre-Dame dHaiti participated in this activity.

DECEMBER

I we give ourselves time to refect on what 2010 meant or Haiti,we are let with the eeling o a country that has suered beyondall limits. The health crisis brought on by the cholera outbreak isa result o a tragic year marked by the earthquake o January 12,which because o its innumerable deaths and damages is still bla-

tant today. It is a natural reaction to have wanted this year to endonce and or all, eager or the beginning o a new year to at leastbring hope that things will improve. We also hope that 2011 will bemore compassionate to Haiti and its people.

However, i we want this hope to be more than a mere illusion, andrather a real orce that transorms reality, we have to help createreasons or the Haitian community to be hopeul. Our simple tran-sitional house, 194 square eet, built rom wood, with a inc rooand erected by Haitian youth and volunteers rom all countries inLatin American, intendeds to bring a drop o water to the desert odesperation in which the Haitian people live.

We are the rst to admit that our support is a temporary solution,that the 800 houses we built the rst year in Haiti are not enough,that the thousands more we will build still will not be enough, andthat in we have made mistakes and could have done much more.However, there are experiences we would not take back: having arri-ved to Haiti, having constructed transitional houses or earthquake

victims, having trusted the Haitian youth, and having overcome theskepticism and challenges to help the most in need. With 2010 be-hind us, we can be at peace knowing that we transormed our desi-re to help into concrete results with ew economic resources, butthe conviction o a youth committed to Haiti and Latin America.

We are all called to go beyond feeting compassion. We need toresist the temptation to orget. That is the essence o this yearlysummary: to help us remember. Any lasting commitment to thosemost in need comes rom the memory o real aces that encompassthe suering o an entire country. A country that not only had achallenging year in 2010, but lives the harsher reality o being in aperpetual state o emergency.

These pages intend to thank all those who put their trust in Un Te-cho para mi Pais. They are also a token o admiration or the youngmen and women who have led this uphill eort. Finally, this is atribute to all those who lost their lives in the earthquake or due tothe cholera epidemic, and to those who continue to lose their lives

as a result o poverty and indierence.

Cristin del Campo S.J.Executive Director Un Techo para mi Pas

...We count on all the conviction o a youth involved with Haiti andLatin America.

According to Shelter Cluster*, UTPMP is one o the orga-


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2010 Achievements

650

176

Port-au-Prince

Croix-des-bouquets(Canaan)

Grand Goave

826

2,874

1,928 Haitian volunteers946 Latin American volunteers

Transitional Houses Built

Volunteers Mobilized

Numbers to dateg , g

nizations that responds astest and most efciently tothe needs o the community.The only NGO working on the housing issue in Canaan,slum with major quantity o displaced persons ollowingthe earquake.Administrative costs below 5%Low price or a high-quality house.Fast execution (One house is built in two days).Involvement o local actors.Encourages a culture o volunteerism and socialcommitment o the youth with the development o theircountry.

*Organism that coordinates various organiations working in the issue o housing in the reconstruction o Haiti

FINANCIAL STATEMENT (USD) D b


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The January 12, 2010 earthquake made visible the emergency situa-tion that the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere had triedto communicate to the world. Their voice was heard, and nally, theeyes and eorts o the whole world were turned towards Haiti.

Focusing and trusting resources in a country where practically everyhumanitarian organiation intends to, or works in, is not easy. Wegreatly appreciate the collaboration o the private sector and the in-ternational community in Haiti and or trusting UTPMP to ecientlychannel these resources to the most impoverished amilies.

In a country where logistics and security demand high administrativecosts, UTPMP, has been able to keep these costs below 5%, alloca-ting the majority o the money to work directly with the most impove-rished amilies in Haiti.

We have only been able to achieve this thanks to the unwaveringsupport and coordination o companies, international organiations,volunteers and amilies who currently live in bidonvilles (slums). Iany o these groups had not been part o our eorts, today we couldnot say that we have constructed 826 transitional houses and mobi-lied more than 2,800 volunteers.

The call must be clear and united; we cannot wait or catastrophes to

orce us to advance in coordination. Now more than ever it is neces-sary that we all collaborate rom wherever we a re so that amilies inHaiti, together with volunteers, can continue to improve their livingconditions and achieve what we dene as sustainable communities.

Sebastin SmartGeneral Manager


...to channel these resources to the most impoveris-hed amilies in the most ecient manner.

84% CONSTRUCTION COSTS

12% LOGISTICAL COSTS4% ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS

FINANCIAL STATEMENT (USD) as o December 31, 2010

INCOME USD % EXPENSES USD %

CORPORATE DONATIONS $ 641,630 30,0%

INDIVIDUAL DONATIONS $ 361,677 16,9%

INTERNATIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS $ 950,000 44,4%

OTHER INTERNAL INCOME $ 186,130 8,7%

CONSTRUCTION $ 2,056,012 100%

HOUSES $ 1,654,119 80,5%

LOGISTICAL $ 401,893 19,5%

ADMINSTRATIVE COSTS $ 83,425

ADMINISTRATION $ 83,425 4,1%

OPERATIONAL INCOME $ 2,139,437 OPERATIONAL EXPENSES $ 2,056,012

TOTAL INCOME $ 2,139,437 TOTAL EXPENSES $ 2,139,437

TOTAL EXPENSES(Icluses volunteer eforts and donaons)

$ 2,223,994

EQUIVALENT VALUE OF VOLUNTEER WORK* $ 84,557

*Coresponds to the equivalent value o 2,800 volunteers who actively participated inthe construction o transitional housing in Haiti.

30% CORPORATE DONATIONS

17%INDIVIDUAL DONATIONS

9%OTHER INTERNAL INCOME

44% INTERNATIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS

INCOME 2010

EXPENSES 2010

2010 Partnerships UTPMP Objectives or Haiti 2011-2015


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2010 Partnerships

UTPMP wants to thank all the organiations and companies who trusted our contribution to the reconstruction o Haiti.

FOUNDATIONS AND INTERNATIONAL ORGANIzATIONS

COMPANIES

ADDITIONAL COLLABORATION

Construction o 10,000 transitional houses.Implementation o social inclusions programs in 15communities.Participation o 25% o university students in the community.Inauguration o an oce in the northern Haiti.

UTPMP Objectives or Haiti 2011-2015


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