EICanada has been actively working in Haiti in partnership with the Oeuvre Evangelique Baptist Bethesda (OEBB) fellowship of churches since 1978. In the immediate aftermath of the earthquake on 12 January 2010, EICanada's in-country representatives went right to work distributing relief supplies and assisting with the search and rescue efforts. Within days of the earthquake, an emergency response team was able to be sent from EICanada, under the leadership of the International Director. This emergency response team helped to network and distribute various relief supplies, including food, water and medicine, to 15,000 people at the OEBB's 10 community centres. EICanada also partnered with ShelterBox, who provided 30 tents to the OEBB, supplying 150 people with desperately needed shelter. An additional 600 tents and tarpaulins were sourced from the Dominican Republic, which were used for sheltering families and providing classroom space for needy schoolchildren. Other EICanada teams were sent to Haiti over the next few months as the relief and rehabilitation efforts continued. During the immediate aftermath of the earthquake, EICanada's donor family responded generously to the urgent need in Haiti, raising funds and donating numerous in-kind gifts of food, water, aid, supplies and medicine for the organization's relief and rehabilitation program.