This shows how Canada helps Haiti.

1. Help ? Me How Canada Helps Haiti Presentation constructed by Allen Mitro

2. What happened On January 12, 2010, Canada has been helping Haiti during last year’s devastating M7.0 earthquake, which killed, injured and displaced millions of people around Port Au Prince. Tons of homes were destroyed (which didn’t have good foundations) and has also devasted Canadians as well.

3. What Canada has done in the short-term They have sent out 49 airplane flights to return 4,620 Canadians citizens and permanent residents back to Canada. Also they have reunited 203 Haitian Children to their families in Canada. 56 expert personnel from the following organizations: DFAIT, CIDA, CIC, CBSA, CSC and the RCMP helped pick people up from the rubble, took care of their health, and made sure they were all safe and healthy. 19 Canadian humanitarian technical experts went to help other trusted humanitarian agencies, including 10 Canadian medical staff to help with the Canadian-Norwegian Red Cross Field Hospital supported by CIDA. *Roll over to see long form of the abbreviations

4. What Canada has done in the short-term (continued) Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) and the Canadian Forces field hospital, Canadian Forces personnel, naval vessels, and strategic airlift came to aid. Some 2,046 Canadian Forces personnel were sent to Haiti.

5. Financial supportAs on the website: http://www.international.gc.ca/humanitarian-humanitaire/earthquake_seisme_haiti_efforts.aspx?lang=eng#hum_effort Important cash contributions to facilitate rapid action by trusted and experienced humanitarian agencies: $5 million for urgent humanitarian needs. $60 million to the UN appeal to fund essential necessities and basic services provided on the ground by UN agencies. $11.5 million to support critical relief efforts by Canadian NGOs. $8.5 million to the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies' (IFRC) appeal for the provision of humanitarian assistance. The IFRC is helping to meet emergency needs of some 300,000 affected people. The Haiti Earthquake Relief Fund – Canadians donated $220 million to eligible Canadian charitable organizations in support of Haiti, an amount that will be matched dollar-for-dollar by the government. At the International Donors' Conference at the United Nations on March 31, 2010, Canada announced it will provide an additional $400 million for humanitarian and reconstruction programs in Haiti.

7. The country has played an important role in this quake.