The HaitiChildren Impact

Children’s Residence Operating Needs Funding Need: $392,585

Children’s Residence Food & Supplies Funding Need: $180,278

Children’s Residence Medical Needs Funding Need: $77,137

Tuition for College Students Funding Need: $2,500/student

Housing for 7 Children graduating from Residence* Funding Need: $1,400

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HaitiChildren Learning Academy Funding Need: $98,500

Sustainability Initiative and Farm Funding Need: $24,798

Church & Community Outreach Expansion Funding Need: $34,490

Operating Costs – Mobile & Medical Clinics Funding Need: $17,850

Operating Costs – Rehabilitation & Therapy Center Funding Need: $88,500

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HAITICHILDREN VILLAGE AND CHILDREN’S RESIDENCE
Also known as the Williamson Campus, the HaitiChildren Village is an 18-acre completely walled property built and owned by HaitiChildren. The Village is located approximately 40 miles northwest of Port-au-Prince in the Arcahaie Arrondissement Community. The Village is home to 119 abandoned Haitian children, 66 of whom suffer from mental and/or physical disability. It is one of the only few organizations in Haiti that welcomes disabled abandoned children and the only one with a comprehensive rehabilitation and therapy program. All our children at our Village’s children’s residence receive all three meals together each day (over 130,000 meals annually). Our 118 Haitian employees care for as many as 500 children daily throughout our programs at the HaitiChildren Village.[/vc_wp_text][vc_wp_text]

HAITICHILDREN LEARNING ACADEMY
The Learning Academy is our primary school located in the Village and providing a decade of education. Here, we teach 295 children ranging from preschool to 6th grade. There are 60 children from our children’s residence and 350 coming from the nearby villages, the hamlets of Duco 1 and Duco 2. Many walk over an hour and a half each way up and down the mountain to attend our school. The school provides a high-quality education with a curriculum that includes mathematics, geography, French, grammar, health, sciences and history among other subjects. At the Learning Academy, HaitiChildren additionally provides the nourishment of one hot meal per school day for every child and teacher (over 85,000 meals annually).[/vc_wp_text][vc_wp_text]

HAITICHILDREN LEARNING ACADEMY SPONSOR A STUDENT PROGRAM
The Learning Academy at the HaitiChildren Village is a safe environment that provides an exceptional education, a free hot lunch, healthcare, and clean drinking water for the students and their families. These students would otherwise not be financially able to receive an education. The small amount of $30 per month ($360 annually) will provide education and access to food for each student you sponsor. If you are in sponsoring a student at the Learning Academy, please contact our office at (877) 424-8454 or visit https://haitichildren.org/sponsor-a-student/.[/vc_wp_text][vc_wp_text]

Community Institute of Teaching and Education C.I.T.E SCHOOL
Located in Cite Soleil, the most dangerous and poorest city, in the same vicinity where HaitiChildren began in 1994.. For 28 years, C.I.T.E. School has been and remains a lighthouse of hope and opportunity, shining in the slums of Port-au-Prince. Providing education every day to 223 students in grades 1st through 6th. The C.I.T.E. School classes include language, history, geography, mathematics, and sciences. Extracurricular programs include art, dance and sports. This school also provide a hot meal each day to our 223 students and our 24 teachers (more than 100,000 meals per year).[/vc_wp_text][vc_wp_text]

HAITICHILDREN SPECIAL EDUCATION CENTER
Our second onsite school, the Special Education Center, opened in 2016 at HaitiChildren Village. Overseen by our HaitiChildren social worker in collaboration with occupational therapists and special education teachers, we provide tailored education to each of our 30 students with special needs. The curriculum is designed to focus on refinement of fine motor skills and social interaction using sports, music, and team building games; and additionally to provide these children with both basic and therapeutic cognitive skill development by learning colors, numbers, and other associative items. We can only continue these programs with the ongoing support of our gracious donors and sponsors.[/vc_wp_text][vc_wp_text]

FARM
Our farm is a wonderful contribution to our HaitiChildren Village. It has been growing for the past 3 years. Currently, the HaitiChildren Village is home to cows, goats, chickens, turkeys, and honey bees, and we have 3 greenhouses where vegetables grow year round! We look forward to cultivating and propagating fruit trees to add to our roster of 2,000 trees we have established.[/vc_wp_text]

HAITICHILDREN REHABILITATION AND THERAPY CENTER
The Rehabilitation and Therapy Center, built with funding from the Anschutz Foundation, serves 66 of our 119 children daily for the special needs of disability. HaitiChildren is one of the few organizations that actively accepts children with disabilities into a permanent home. Many of the disabled children who were immobile when they came to HaitiChildren are now using wheelchairs, walkers or walking without aid. Physical therapy is generally required for those with permanent disabilities and for those who are suffering from crippling diseases such as cerebral palsy. We have 5 physical therapy technicians and a Certified Physical Therapist who collaborate with our campus medical staff to provide quality therapy and care in a comprehensive manner.[/vc_wp_text][vc_wp_text]

SAMMY’S COMMUNITY MEDICAL CLINICS/MOBILE CLINIC
In 2014 we established Sammy’s Community Medical Clinic in an existing medical container. The onsite container was relocated to an area close to the gate and was re-purposed to be a mobile medical clinic. Our onsite medical professionals see our resident children and patients from the community on a weekly basis.In case of emergencies, our HaitiChildren’s medical staff is available 24 hours a day. Starting in the beginning of 2015, we opened a complimentary service of our psychiatric therapy programs to the 3 surrounding villages. We also now care for the disabled children in those villages on an outpatient basis.[/vc_wp_text][vc_wp_text]

CHURCH AND COMMUNITY OUTREACH CENTER
Every Sunday morning HaitiChildren hosts a church service for approximately 300 people including our children, staff and community members. We welcome them to the Village for a Bible-based worship service, message and fellowship. Our Pastor Claude Oczeus holds our Sunday service every week and provides council, guidance, leadership, and resources to our HaitiChildren family. Twice per month our Community Church Outreach Center serves a hot meal after church services to all in attendance, providing as many as 12,000 meals annually.[/vc_wp_text][vc_wp_text]

WIDOWS
Every Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, Pastor Claude of our Christian Community Church, spends time with and looks after elderly widows who live outside our Village. Many of these women are disabled. These widows share in the sense of family that our orphans receive at HaitiChildren Village. We supply them monthly with groceries and medical care. On Sundays, those who are able to walk will go to Sunday service. Our orphans enjoy visiting with our group of widows weekly. Pastor Claude always brings a group of children who look forward to their visits with these women, as they bond and build a sense of family.[/vc_wp_text][vc_wp_text]

FAMILY ASSISTANCE
Family assistance and outreach is another example of the services provided by Pastor Claude. The Pastor has Claude. The Pastor has taken the initiative to provide funding and support for families in need during times of death and other difficult situations. We are able to provide assistance with funeral costs and medical necessities such as surgeries. An incredible aspect of Pastor Claude’s family assistance outreach has been in helping young church members to start businesses by educating them in accounting, technical skills, and also teaching specific skills such as applying for external small business loans.[/vc_wp_text][vc_wp_text]

WATER WELLS
The water wells we have built have quenched a thirst! People come to collect water by all forms of transportation. In cars, on foot, with donkeys and on bicycles. They come with makeshift wagons and carts. They fill containers of all shapes and sizes. HaitiChildren is able to provide 75,000 gallons of water to all these people and their families each week.[/vc_wp_text]

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MEDICAL NEEDS

The medical needs and emergencies in Haiti remain high. There is always a great deal of disabled children being abandoned in hospitals, especially during times of unrest. The summer of 2019 saw a surge in unrest and turmoil. This can often lead to an increase in child abandonment. Additionally, we still work to educate people on diseases that are often believed by villagers to be voodoo curses and evil at work, rendering families to feel helpless in the face of misinformation. As we have mentioned in our program reports, examples of success at the Village include that of our community church member little Christopher and his family. Yet so many children go undiagnosed, untreated and abandoned in hospitals, where their chance of survival is slim.

There is now an unprecedented number of abandoned children in Haiti every year. A large percentage of them are left sick in hospitals to an unknown often morbid fate. These children are born into a world where the odds are stacked against them. In September of this year we came upon an example of this devastating reality with three small babies at one of the hospitals in the capital. In each case, the life expectancy of these babies was limited. As they receive care at the hospital, we at HaitiChildren know all too well that a lack of warmth and human contact may be deeply missed by these precious children.

Two baby girls suffer from Hydrocephalus: a condition in which excess cerebralspinal fluid builds up with the ventricules of the brain and may increase pressure within the head. They are Bianca Bien-Aimé, a 2-month old baby abandoned at birth; and Ednica Rose Elsa Philisma, born on August 19th and abandoned two weeks later. The third baby is Medelcky Exil, who suffers from Microcephalus – a rare neurological condition in which the infant’s head is smaller than normal compared to other infants of the same age and sex – and also a cleft palate. He is 10 months old and was abandoned at the hospital at the beginning of September. The condition can be present at birth or develop within the first few years of life.

The social workers at many hospitals often call HaitiChildren with such cases. Every opportunity to rescue an abandoned disabled child shows us: the gentle voice and touch of our loving team along with consistent medical care can save a life. It costs $1,200 a year, or $200 a month to raise each one of these children.

If there is a chance to offer these babies an opportunity to be with us, to offer them in their limited life expectancy, we are the first to take them. With arms of love we tell them that on this earth they are not alone.

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OUR RESPONSE

We at HaitiChildren continue to search for support in the states, as our need continues to grow. We have established many programs, including healthcare centers and schools, which we have successfully naturalized to independent Haitian organizations. We continue to nourish the empowerment of Haitians to care for the children and lead within for a better future. We believe that the path to a sustainable future of peace is being laidas we see a growing response to our programs.

We continue to search for opportunities and maintain connections with organizations who help provide the medical care that is so desperately needed in Haiti. One such organization is the Nicklaus Children’s Health System. They are an incredible organization who continues to provide assistance to HaitiChildren through their heroic foundation efforts. A financially-sound and award winning non-profit organization, Nicklaus Children’s Hospital Foundation’s sole mission is to create awareness and generate funds. Nicklaus Children’s Hospital Foundation supports the hospital by providing the opportunity for members of the local and global community to invest in our children’s future.

This year we are running our 3 clinics: namely the clinic for our resident children, a community clinic inside our walls, and a mobile clinic. With the mobile clinic we transport doctors, nurses, medicines and supplies to care for three communities in the mountain village region above our campus. Currently, we have 9 children who are going through surgical procedures, as is often the case. All of our medical staff cares for our small patients and their parents. With the help of foundations such as NCHS, we can ensure that our children and patients are taken care of during their course of treatment and have the medicine they need at all times. We are home to 66 disabled orphans this year. We never wish to turn away a baby like Edneca, Medelky, or Bianca. We have the resources to care for them thanks to our faithful donors and sponsors. However it can be difficult for us to take on new orphans, if we have not secured the donations to sponsor such new costs. We continue to build our sponsor and donor base, so that we can continue to take these children in. We see the seeds we plant, and the lives we save, blossoming into positive change. In faith, and through these gifts from God, we believe it is our duty to continue to expand the scope of affect in Haiti.

We are so grateful to the continued relationships with the generous individuals and organizations who make our mission at HaitiChildren possible. We couldn’t do it without all of you. To utilize these desperately needed medial services and supplies, we must also find the means to support each child we take in with the costs of basic needs. For this, we continue to seek sponsors. These costs are quantifiable. It is simply a matter of finding the support to meet them. We remain devoted to our mission to provide free healthcare to our HaitiChildren community and especially for our children that are orphaned and disabled.

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