Haiti13 Project: Arrival!

About Haiti

Haiti is in desperate need of economic improvement. The lack of market activity has led to tremendous unemployment, food scarcity and poor education.

- Haiti is ranked 149th out of 177 on the 2009 United Nations Human Development Index.

- Port-au-Prince is ranked 213th out of 221 on the 2010 Mercer world cities livability index.

- The World Food Program reports that food supply covers only 55% of the population.

- Haiti ranks among the worst three countries in the world in daily caloric intake per person.

- 42% of children less than five years of age suffer from stunting of growth.

- Literacy rates in Haiti for the general population were 45% in 2010.

- Unemployment is now 90% in Haiti and 80% of Haiti’s people live in abject poverty.

- There are over 400,000 children without parents in Haiti.

- There are still over 17,000 children in Mission of Hope’s surrounding area that will never go to school, due jointly to lack of money and lack of schools.

- 1 out of 5 children will die before the age of five.

Saturday, July 23, 2011

Arrival!

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