Haiti marks 2 year anniversary of killer quake

Pope Benedict ‘s prayer intentions for this January are that the victims of natural disasters may receive the spiritual and material comfort they need to rebuild their lives. Thursday, January 12, Haiti commemorates the two-year anniversary of a devastating earthquake that killed roughly 300,000 people and left more than 1.5 million homeless.

The Caribbean Island nation is still struggling to recover from the earthquake despite billions of dollars pledged by donors to help the country rebuild. The recovery effort is one of the world's biggest humanitarian and reconstruction operations involving more than 12,000 aid groups. But almost exactly two years on from the earthquake hundreds of thousands of Haitians are still homeless and the country is still struggling to get back on its feet again.

Along with its local partners, the Catholic development charity CAFOD that is part of the Caritas Confederation has been at the forefront of helping the victims of Haiti’s earthquake to rebuild their shattered lives. Mike Noyes is CAFOD’s Senior Humanitarian officer and has frequently visited Haiti over the past year and saw at first hand a local re-housing project supported by the charity. Listen: