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Haiti Earthquake: Thousands of people at risk of flooding are to be relocated

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Channel: United Nations · 2010 · News & Politics

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United Nations, New York, 9 April 2010 - In Haiti, agencies are teaming up to relocate several thousand people at risk of potential flooding in the Petionville Club settlement in Port-au-Prince.
According to the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), 7,500 people were identified as being at risk. The agencies also worked with the UN Mission in the country, MINUSTAH, and others to identify priority areas within where work has to be carried out to prevent flooding and mudslides.  
People living in dangerous areas were presented with voluntary relocation options. When those are not possible, relocation will be facilitated to the new Corail Cesselesse site.  Relocation to this site will start tomorrow. The process is expected to take several days.
The Corail Cesselesse site will include health care and food distribution services as well as specialized services for children, such as a learning area provided by the UNs Children Fund.

The Secretary-General has made clear his concerns about the difficult living conditions in the camps for displaced Haitians and, in particular, reports of sexual violence against women and children. As he informed you earlier this month, he is dispatching the Deputy Secretary-General, Asha-Rose Migiro, to Haiti to survey the situation in the camps, assess the steps that have been taken and explore areas for further action.
The Deputy Secretary-General will travel to Haiti this Sunday, where she will meet with President René Préval and other senior Government officials. She will spend Sunday night in one of the camps for Haitians displaced since the earthquake and meet with residents and police there, in order to assess the efforts to protect the people there from sexual violence and related problems.

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