Oxfam in Haiti

Oxfam’s Alexandros Yiannopoulos on the dilemmas facing aid workers in communities shattered by natural disasters

Oxfam’s Alexandros Yiannopoulos blogs on how life on the streets is beginning to return to some kind of normality in quake hit Haiti, yet many people still do not have jobs and businesses struggle.

Helen Hawkings, who manages Oxfam’s public health promotion team in Haiti, blogs about her work over the past few days.

This shock has had a benefit in bringing people together to share food and other resources, blogs Oxfam aid worker Alexandros Yiannopoulos.

Helen Hawkings of Oxfam describes the need for public health to be maintained in Haiti.

Three key activists in the women’s movement in Haiti perished in last month’s earthquake, blogs Yolette Etienne, Oxfam programme manager in the country.

Alexandros Yiannopoulos is Oxfam’s coordinator of food security and livelihood in Haiti.  To find out more about Oxfam in Haiti visit their website here. This is the first time I have tried to keep anything like a blog or diary, even though many of my friends have asked me to keep them up-to-date with my…

I came here to work on WASH (water, sanitation and hygiene) emergency preparedness. The preparations have come in useful as the teams that we have been training are now helping us to evaluate the situation and responding by setting up water distribution points, organizing latrine construction etc.

Yolette Etienne (pictured below), from Port-au-Prince, has been Oxfam’s country director in Haiti for the past 10 years. She writes in a special series of posts for Channel 4 News. To find out more about Oxfam in Haiti visit their website here. It’s been two weeks since the earthquake struck Haiti. Driving around Port-au-Prince, you…