THEN - The First Days of the Haiti Earthquake

What HealtheChildren has been doing since the devastating earthquake in Haiti, January, 2010 ...

With partners, we have been able to deliver over 100K in food, medicine, and medical supplies to the hard hit cities of Carrefour, and Jacmel, Haiti. Medicines, and medical supplies have been used to treat thousands of children and families by our teams of North American and Haitian health care providers. These missions are ongoing, and we accept volunteers from all walks of life, especially those people working in the fields of medicine.

Cleaning a wound in Carrefour, pediatrician, Patricia Jorquera and nurse Ann Guili work together to save a limb.

Children receiving a lesson while eating at the Christ Love Center in Jacmel. This program was organized by nurse, Bonite Affriany, in 2007 before the earthquake, and greatly expanded since then to meet the increased need.

Rescuers flanking, Dr. David Reed of Stamford, and his patient after receiving hand-saving surgery in Carrefour.

Nurse Teresa Norris providing daily dressing changes to a boy with badly scratched skin.

Medical Assistant, Anna Socci, changing a life with loving patience and the gift of a cane.

Contact us to find out more about volunteer health missions to Haiti.

Changing Children's Lives to Change the World

HealtheChildren also participates with same partners in a nutrition program for at-risk children, through the Christ Love Center in Jacmel, Haiti. These children receive regular medical care, de-worming, basic schooling, daily vitamins, and one protein-packed meal a day (all at the cost of about 50 cents a day.)

In Haiti, where basic household income has slipped to less than one dollar a day after the earthquake, the cost of providing even one meal per child per day, has become overwhelming for many parents. Many of the children abandoned to orphanages in Haiti come from loving homes, their parents are still alive, but simply cannot afford to feed them. This program is an effort to support these children's well-being, while keeping their families together. Currently more than 150 children are enrolled in the program and space can always be made for more children, as funding permits.

Donate now, at whatever level you can. To support one child in the program is 50 cents a day, which is 15 dollars a month, 90 dollars for six months, or 182 dollars per year.

NOW - Onging Help for Haiti

What We Are Doing Now: Permanent Health for Jacmel

HealtheChildren has partnered with many groups to bring regular health care to children and families in Jacmel, Haiti, this includes a permanent community-based health clinic that is scheduled to open on the anniversary of the earthquake in 2011. Partners with HealtheChildren in this effort include: Americares, Angel Wings International, Danbury Hospital, Direct Relief International, Ridgefield Responds, and Sharejoy International. This community-based health clinic will provide basic medical and dental care to families and will include a pharmacy and basic laboratory. The community will participate in every level of planning and operation of the clinic, including providing health care outreach workers to focus on the role of prevention.

Jacmel, also along the fault line like, Port-au-Prince, has received a proportionately much smaller response from the international community. Nevertheless, HealtheChildren was among those groups that responded immediately.

Physician Assistant, Olga Waters, treating a boy injured by falling rubble during the earthquake, at an impromptu clinic staged by HealtheChildren and partners in Jacmel.

The clinic will provide space for many different specialties, and include dental equipment from two retired Ridgefield, Connecticut dentists, Drs. Peter Yanity, and Bob Meade.

Future site of the community-based health center in Jacmel. A Swiss organization is planning on building a primary school adjacent to the health center to the right.

Standard Integrated Panels (SIP) will be used to assemble the buildings quickly, while still meeting standards for hurricane and earthquake safety. Here Habitat For Humanity volunteers construct a 3 bedroom house in 2 hours, 45 minutes.

Artist's conception of 3 building community-health center in Jacmel.

Making progress. The initial foundation has been laid in trenches, we will next pour a pad of concrete and embed the J bolts which the buildings will be bolted to.

Above and below: Latest artist's conceptions of all steel, hurricane and earthquake proof buildings currently being constructed in Savannah, Georgia.