What TFWA Care did for... Hand in Hand for Haiti
Almost a decade ago, a devastating earthquake struck Haiti leaving at least 230,000 dead and injuring tens of thousands more. The country's already fragile infrastructure suffered incomparable devastation. The earthquake caused catastrophic suffering across the country. It has been a disaster on the most terrible of scales and, as always in a disaster zone, the youngest are among the worst affected. Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, with 80 percent of the population living below the poverty line on less than US two dollars a day. An estimated 55 percent are illiterate. Its people will need our support long into the future.
