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Two years after the devastating earthquake in Haiti, UNICEF continues to improve the lives of thousands of children in the country, thanks to the generosity of our supporters. But there are still major challenges.

Find out more our work in this special photo gallery, or read our report on Haiti's progress in 2012.

12/01/2012

In 2011, UNICEF helped to save the lives of more than 15,000 acutely malnourished children through therapeutic feeding programmes. This photo shows a boy with his infant sister in the nutrition centre at State University Hospital in Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti. The centre collapsed during the 2010 earthquake and operated beneath a UNICEF-supplied tent until it was rebuilt in a semi-permanent facility by Concern Worldwide, an Irish NGO. © UNICEF/NYHQ2011-2066/Marco Dormino

Since 2010, more than 750,000 children have been able to go back to school with learning materials provided by UNICEF. Some 80,000 of them are now attending classes in 193 earthquake-resistant schools constructed by UNICEF. This picture shows some pupils playing violins before a music class at Vision Nouvelle School, in Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti. The school is 1 of only 10 in Haiti currently offering music classes to its students. The school’s original building was destroyed in the earthquake, but UNICEF rebuilt it in semi-permanent facilities, where classes resumed in December 2010. © UNICEF/NYHQ2011-2082/Marco Dormino

With UNICEF’s support, more children than ever before are now receiving immunisations to protect them from potentially deadly diseases. Routine immunisation coverage increased from 58% to nearly 80% between 2010 and 2011. This photo shows a health worker administering a polio vaccine to a crying infant, held by her mother, at a clinic operated by the Foundation for the Development of Haitian Families, a UNICEF partner, in Canapé Vert, a neighbourhood in Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti. © UNICEF/NYHQ2011-2061/Marco Dormino

In addition to treatment, UNICEF has supported a massive expansion in preventative services by establishing “baby-friendly corners” in camps where half a million mothers to date have received advice on breastfeeding and nutrition for their babies and young children. This photo shows two women breastfeeding their infants during a ceremony to commemorate the beginning of World Breastfeeding Week 2011, in the UNICEF-supported maternity ward at Isaie Jeanty Hospital in Port-au-Prince, the capital. Breastfeeding is the most cost-effective way to reduce under-five mortality. © UNICEF/NYHQ2011-2063/Marco Dormino

In some deprived areas, more babies than ever before are being protected from the transmission of HIV from their mothers. With UNICEF’s support, 11 new facilities for treating HIV-positive pregnant women have opened, nearly 150,000 pregnant women across the country have been tested for HIV, and 1,875 HIV-positive pregnant women have received anti-retroviral treatment. This photo show 16-year-old Clodine (not her real name) at the camp where she lives in Martissant, Port-au-Prince. Clodine is HIV-positive and six months pregnant; her family does not know her status. She is receiving antenatal care and anti-retroviral treatment from the UNICEF-supported community clinic in Martissant. © UNICEF/NYHQ2011-1324/Marco Dormino

More than 8,700 children who were separated from their families after the earthquake have been registered, and more than 2,770 of them reunited with their families thanks to the support of UNICEF and the Family Tracing and Reunification Network. This picture shows a social worker from the NGO Terre des Hommes – which runs a UNICEF-supported child protection programme – speaking with the parents of a 4-year-old named Carline (not pictured). In 2008, Carline's parents could not afford to care for her and placed her in an orphanage, where they continued to visit her frequently until the orphanage moved to Port-au-Prince. The orphanage soon denied her family any opportunity to see her. After three years, in March 2011, the Government, local NGOs and UNICEF helped to reunite Carline with her family; the orphanage was discovered to be operating without a license. Carline's family’s home was destroyed in the 2010 earthquake; they currently live in a makeshift structure of wood and plastic tarpaulin. © UNICEF/NYHQ2011-2073/Marco Dormino

In 2011, UNICEF delivered cholera prevention supplies for 2.2 million people, and provided 322,000 people with improved sanitation facilities and 196,000 people with at least 10 litres of safe water every day. The first human waste disposal site in Port-au-Prince was also established with UNICEF’s support. This photo shows students at a math class at the La Ruche School in the southern port town of Les Cayes. Through its partners, UNICEF has launched a cholera prevention programme at La Ruche and other schoolds that includes the distribution of water treatment materials and school kits, and raises awareness of the ways to prevent catching the disease. © UNICEF/NYHQ2011-0289/Marco Dormino

Students play outside Mamalu Kindergarten et École Fondamentale Mixte (Mamalu Kindergarten and Primary School) in Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti. The school, which collapsed during the earthquake, was rebuilt by UNICEF in a semi-permanent facility, allowing children to return to school as quickly as possible and to regain a sense of normalcy after the disaster. © UNICEF/NYHQ2011-2089/Marco Dormino

A student poses for a photo at the Lycee de Bois Greffin in Port au Prince. The school building collapsed during the earthquake and was rebuilt by UNICEF. With 88 schools completed and 11 about to be completed in Port au Prince UNICEF is preparing to rebuild 37 more schools in Haiti's capital. © UNICEF/HTIA2011-00392/Marco Dormino

In 2011, UNICEF helped to save the lives of more than 15,000 acutely malnourished children through therapeutic feeding programmes.

This photo shows a boy with his infant sister in the nutrition centre at State University Hospital in Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti. The centre collapsed during the 2010 earthquake and operated beneath a UNICEF-supplied tent until it was rebuilt in a semi-permanent facility by Concern Worldwide, an Irish NGO.

Since 2010, more than 750,000 children have been able to go back to school with learning materials provided by UNICEF. Some 80,000 of them are now attending classes in 193 earthquake-resistant schools constructed by UNICEF.

This picture shows some pupils playing violins before a music class at Vision Nouvelle School, in Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti. The school is 1 of only 10 in Haiti currently offering music classes to its students. The school’s original building was destroyed in the earthquake, but UNICEF rebuilt it in semi-permanent facilities, where classes resumed in December 2010.

With UNICEF's support, more children than ever before are now receiving immunisations to protect them from potentially deadly diseases. Routine immunisation coverage increased from 58% to nearly 80% between 2010 and 2011.

This photo shows a health worker administering a polio vaccine to a crying infant, held by her mother, at a clinic operated by the Foundation for the Development of Haitian Families, a UNICEF partner, in Canapé Vert, a neighbourhood in Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti.

In addition to treatment, UNICEF has supported a massive expansion in preventative services by establishing “baby-friendly corners” in camps where half a million mothers to date have received advice on breastfeeding and nutrition for their babies and young children.

This photo shows two women breastfeeding their infants during a ceremony to commemorate the beginning of World Breastfeeding Week 2011, in the UNICEF-supported maternity ward at Isaie Jeanty Hospital in Port-au-Prince, the capital.

Breastfeeding is the most cost-effective way to reduce under-five mortality.

In some deprived areas, more babies than ever before are being protected from the transmission of HIV from their mothers.

With UNICEF’s support, 11 new facilities for treating HIV-positive pregnant women have opened, nearly 150,000 pregnant women across the country have been tested for HIV, and 1,875 HIV-positive pregnant women have received anti-retroviral treatment.

This photo show 16-year-old Clodine (not her real name) at the camp where she lives in Martissant, Port-au-Prince.

Clodine is HIV-positive and six months pregnant; her family does not know her status. She is receiving antenatal care and anti-retroviral treatment from the UNICEF-supported community clinic in Martissant.

More than 8,700 children who were separated from their families after the earthquake have been registered, and more than 2,770 of them reunited with their families thanks to the support of UNICEF and the Family Tracing and Reunification Network.

This picture shows a social worker from the NGO Terre des Hommes – which runs a UNICEF-supported child protection programme – speaking with the parents of a 4-year-old named Carline (not pictured).

In 2008, Carline's parents could not afford to care for her and placed her in an orphanage, where they continued to visit her frequently until the orphanage moved to Port-au-Prince. The orphanage soon denied her family any opportunity to see her.

After three years, in March 2011, the Government, local NGOs and UNICEF helped to reunite Carline with her family; the orphanage was discovered to be operating without a license.

Carline's family’s home was destroyed in the 2010 earthquake; they currently live in a makeshift structure of wood and plastic tarpaulin.

In 2011, UNICEF delivered cholera prevention supplies for 2.2 million people, and provided 322,000 people with improved sanitation facilities and 196,000 people with at least 10 litres of safe water every day. The first human waste disposal site in Port-au-Prince was also established with UNICEF’s support.

This photo shows students at a math class at the La Ruche School in the southern port town of Les Cayes. Through its partners, UNICEF has launched a cholera prevention programme at La Ruche and other schoolds that includes the distribution of water treatment materials and school kits, and raises awareness of the ways to prevent catching the disease.

Students play outside Mamalu Kindergarten et École Fondamentale Mixte (Mamalu Kindergarten and Primary School) in Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti. The school, which collapsed during the earthquake, was rebuilt by UNICEF in a semi-permanent facility, allowing children to return to school as quickly as possible and to regain a sense of normalcy after the disaster.

A student poses for a photo at the Lycee de Bois Greffin in Port au Prince. The school building collapsed during the earthquake and was rebuilt by UNICEF. With 88 schools completed and 11 about to be completed in Port au Prince UNICEF is preparing to rebuild 37 more schools in Haiti's capital.

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