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Building Homes and Hope in Haiti
News Source: Habitat International
Building homes and hope in Haiti: Two years into the recovery
On Jan. 12, 2010, a 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
The devastation:
•More than two million people were affected.
•Nearly 190,000 houses were damaged; of those, 105,000 were completely destroyed.
•More than 500,000 survivors remain homeless ― a population as large as Oslo, Norway; Panama City, Panama; or Las Vegas, Nevada.
Habitat’s five year goal:
Help 50,000 families move toward safe, secure and permanent places to call home.
Two years after the earthquake, Habitat has helped more than 40,000 families in Haiti.
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