CHF Approaches 500,000 cubic meters of Rubble Removed in Haiti

CHF Approaches 500,000 cubic meters of Rubble Removed in Haiti

CHF International, in partnership with the Haitian people and funded by USAID, has removed close to half a million cubic meters of rubble from earthquake-affected areas since we began our operations after the January 12, 2010 earthquake.
Estimates of the quantity of debris in Haiti have varied since the earthquake. The US Army Corps of Engineers estimates that the earthquake created in total 10 million cubic meters of rubble. Recent reports indicate that 2 million cubic meters have been removed to date. This means that CHF, with our thousands of Haitian community members, have been responsible for approximately 24% of the total, with 481,854 cubic meters of rubble removed.
There is a long way to go in Haiti’s recovery from its devastating earthquake, but the advances in rubble removal are good news for the Haitian people. Without it, reconstruction is impossible. None of this would have been possible without the more than 15,000 Haitian cash for work laborers who have accessed the most inaccessible sites, or the Haitian heavy machinery operators who are at the center of rebuilding their communities and countries. CHF’s aim is to put Haitian people at the center of their own recovery and nowhere has this been more apparent than in rubble removal efforts.