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  • From: Evan Schoepke <thejulianeffect@gmail.com>
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  • Subject: [permaculture] "Permacorps" update Haiti by the numbers...
  • Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 15:14:29 -0800

Top of the morning to everyone,

What I've started to call a "Permacorps" mission for the* long term
recovery<http://punkrockpermaculture.com/>
* of Haiti is *slowly* mounting. I've recieved *dozens of emails* from some
very qualified permaculture folks from around the globe asking how they can
plug in. In a day or two there will be a project posting entitled
"Permaculture Relief Corps" on kickstarter.com, which is a very popular
crowdfunding site. If anyone has any info related to this idea please share
so that we can better coordinate our efforts. Honestly, I am a
bit surprised by the lack of discussion on analysis on some of the better
known permie sites. But, I'm not at all discouraged because I know that
what I do see on the net is just a very small sliver of what is actually
going on. So I guess what I'm trying to say is that I would like to
*see*more of that discussion out there. If anyone can contact any of
the people
from the *Permaculture First Responders* course that would very helpful too.
There are now two Google docs spreadsheet I can share with folks (who have
google accounts) to add regional contacts. In a week or so it seems that a
*skype conference call* is in order to further coordinate stateside efforts.
Currently, permaculture groups working in Haiti and elsewhere are being
contacted for their opinions and thus far
ORE<http://www.oreworld.org/index.htm> in
Haiti has been very supportive of this idea.

Here are approximated numbers on the situation currently from the Huffington
Post...
*


People in Haiti needing help: 3 million. Bodies collected for disposal so
far: 9,000. Number of people being fed daily by the United Nation's World
Food Program: only 8,000.

The numbers behind the outpouring of earthquake assistance are giant. But
they are dwarfed by the statistics indicating the scope of the disaster in
Haiti, the number of victims and their deep poverty.

"The level of need is going to be significantly higher" than many previous
disasters, said Dr. Michael VanRooyen, director of the Harvard Humanitarian
Initiative.

Here are some numbers, with the proviso that figures are estimates that are
constantly changing.

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THE DEAD

Current death estimates: The Red Cross says 45,000 to 50,000 people have
died. The Pan American Health Organization puts the number between 50,000
and 100,000 and Rueters has 100,000 to 200,000 possibly dead or missing

Bodies collected for disposal so far: 9,000. An additional 7,000 corpses
were reportedly placed

in a mass grave.

[image: Haiti Earthquake Death Toll]
**Percent of buildings damaged or destroyed: Up to 50 percent.

Hospitals or health facilities in Haiti damaged, forced to close: eight.

Patients treated by Doctors Without Borders initially: more than 1,500.

Search-and-rescue teams on ground or en route Friday: 38.

Homeless people in Port-au-Prince: at least 300,000.

Water needed daily: 6 to 12 million gallons (enough to fill 18 Olympic sized
swimming pools a day).

Kate Conradt, chief spokeswoman for Save the Children, said that the
challenge ahead cannot be overcome in a few days or weeks. "This is a
long-term disaster," she said in a telephone interview from Port-au-Prince.

Helping Haiti "is going to take far more than we ever could imagine,"
VanRooyen said.

So in response, the world has opened its wallets.

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THE MONEY

United Nations Emergency appeal for aid: $550 million.

United States pledge of aid: $100 million. (some of this may be in the form
of a IMF loan)

European Commission's initial spending: 3 million Euros.

Total pledge of aid by governments around world: $400 million.

Number of governments that have sent aid so far: more than 20.

International Red Cross' initial emergency appeal goal: $10 million.

Amount of money raised by Save The Children: $7 million.

Amount of money pledged by George Soros: $4 million.

Amount of money raised by Wyclef Jean of the Fugees through Yele and twitter
$10 million

Amount of money raised by the Salvation Army and some other charities: more
than $3 million.

___

HELP THAT'S ALREADY THERE OR COMING

Number of people being fed daily by U.N.'s World Food Program: only 8,000.

Number of people a day WFP hopes to feed within 15 days: 1 million.

Number of people a day WFP hopes to feed within one month: 2 million!

Amount of food salvaged by WFP in damaged Haitian warehouse being
distributed: 6,000 tons (out of a total of 15,000 tons stored before the
earthquake).

Meals prepared and freeze dried by the Salvation Army in Kansas and Iowa to
ship to Haiti: 1.28 million, weighing nearly 200,000 pounds.

Number of trucks carrying bottled water being trucked in from neighboring
Dominican Republic: 13.

UNICEF initial shipment of rehydration liquids, water-purification tables,
hygiene kits and tents: enough for 10,000 people.

Size of Doctors Without Borders initial relief package: 25 tons.

International Red Cross pre-positioned relief supplies: enough for 3,000
families.

Plane of Red Cross supplies sent Thursday: 40 tons.

Body bags sent by Red Cross on Thursday: 3,000.

"We are seeing overwhelming need within the city and increasingly desperate
conditions," Conradt said. "We visited two camps today with 5,000 people and
only four latrines total. We were told that the number of people there
doubles at night, but during the day they are looking out for food, water
and family members."

Camps like that are all over Port-au-Prince.

And this is a country that before Tuesday's earthquake was the poorest in
the Western Hemisphere and one of the poorest worldwide. More than half of
Haiti's 9 million people live on less than $1 a day, even before the
earthquake, according to the United Nation's World Food Program. The World
Bank said the average Haitian lives on just $1,180 a year.

Nearly half of Haiti's population is hungry and only half had access to safe
drinking water before the earthquake, according to the World Food Program.
Nearly 60 percent of Haiti's children under 5 are anemic.

___

PEOPLE FROM ELSEWHERE

Americans in Haiti when earthquake struck: 45,000.

Number of Americans evacuated from Haiti: 846.

Number of Americans confirmed dead: six.

Number of Canadians dead: four.

Number of United Nations worker in Haiti when earthquake struck: 12,000.

Number of UN workers confirmed dead: 37.

Number of UN workers missing: 330.

Number of Dominicans dead: six.

Number of Brazilians dead: 15.

Number of Europeans dead: six.

Number of staffers of Christian humanitarian agency World Vision: 370.

U.S. troops there to help or possibly on their way: 10,000.

Haitian Red Cross volunteers: 1,700.

___

This report was compiled by Associated Press writers Seth Borenstein in
Washington and Frank Jordans in Geneva. Edith Lederer at the United Nations
in New York contributed.

___

SOURCES: The Associated Press, United Nations, U.S. State Department,
European Commission, International Red Cross, Save The Children, Salvation
Army, other charities.
**

*
The obstacle is the Path.
-Zen Proverb

I write at www.punkrockpermaculture.com



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