January 2010 posts from Concern Blog

Concern recently marked its 30th anniversary in Tanzania. I’ve just spent a week in Iringa, the first area Concern worked in the country, to see how things have changed in this time.

Hundreds, possibly thousands, of people are feared dead after a 7.0 magnitude earthquake hit Haiti last night. According to reports, it was the most powerful earthquake to hit Haiti in 200 years.

According to reports, the death toll following the earthquake is rising rapidly.

We are using Twitter to provide quick updates on the emergency in Haiti. You can see these updates below; we’ve embedded our Twitter account into this blog post.

The earthquake in Haiti, and the response to it, are raising several important questions. Below, Concern’s Information Officer Cormac Staunton answers some of the most pressing.

This video, created by Concern's Ed Kenny, shows scenes from the aftermath of the earthquake, and features an interview with Margarette, a woman who has lost her home in the crisis.

Concern’s team continue working to get help to those affected by the earthquake. Here’s an update on our response.

Last night, Dominic MacSorley, Emergency Coordinator for the Concern’s Haiti earthquake response, was interviewed for World Focus, a show that is broadcast on PBS, in America.

Concern CEO Tom Arnold visited Haiti to oversee emergency operations and offer his support to local and Irish staff in Port-au-Prince.

It’s a week since the earthquake and the heartache is still palpable. Driving down to distribute critical medical supplies to a health clinic in Carrefour, the epicentre of the quake, I witnessed the most horrific of images.

Standing patiently in the queue at our water distribution today is Evans. A 24 year-old teacher whose house was destroyed during the earthquake, he tells me: