ABSTRACT

In January 2010, the Haiti earthquake, measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale, claimed 222,570 lives and affected over a third (EM-DAT 2015) of Haiti’s 10.4 million people (The World Bank 2015). Economic damages were estimated at about $7.8 billion (The World Bank 2011a). The ensuing cholera epidemic claimed 8346 additional lives (World Health Organization [WHO] 2015), introducing new challenges for those who strove to recover from the earthquake.