Disaster Relief program
Disaster always bring the unpredictable. The way we deal with the aftermath can make a huge difference in the recovery process for the victims and their community. For Haiti, at this time the need is huge for housing, rebuilding and repairing of schools, food, school supplies, school tuition.
Helping hands is committed to help start the rebuilding process. We have put in place and mobilized local leaders to help finding safe locations to rebuild. We had engineers conducted site analysis and build model for one bedroom Homes.
Each home will cost 3,500 to be completed. The reason this is possible is because the community leaders will contribute, and labor will not be paid for.
Please help us take families of the streets.
Our Orphanage
Helping Hands for Haiti makes grants initially to the Maison de Benediction, the orphanage in Cerca-La-Source. The orphanage is currently in desperate need of an adequate facility to house its operations. Currently the orphanage can only provide housing for seven orphans with no place for outdoor recreation. We recognize that recreation and outdoor play are vital to improving both the physical and mental health of a child. It also provides opportunities to learn important life lessons about respect, leadership and cooperation. Helping Hands for Haiti wants to incorporate recreation and outdoor play into this orphanage. With the orphanages’ planned expansion and the addition of a playground facility we will be able to provide 24-hour care for up to 40 children.
Vaccination program
At the beginning of each school year, Helping Hands for Haiti sponsors a vaccination clinic at College Mixte Le Progrès School in the Cerca-La-Source area. We recruits local volunteer nurses and other medical professionals to administer vital vaccinations to children from low income families. This vaccination clinic is promoted by the school, through local churches and other local organizations.
Scholarship program
Helping Hands for Haiti selects impoverished students in the Cerca-La-Source, Haiti region, Port-au-Prince, Jeremie, Les Cayes, desiring to attend or to continue to attend school but are unable due to poverty and sponsors their education. Phaille Joseph, our program supervisor in Haiti, rides to all participated schools to supervise and make sure that our students receive the education and attention we pay for, and contact their parents for further special care. The students selected demonstrated the greatest financial need, and were at risk of not being able to continue their education due to lack of financial resources. We then, have established a selection committee, composed of all board members to assist in future selection process.
Payment for tuition shall be paid per trimester at the beginning of each trimester or monthly payments will be made to cover the cost of each of the student’s tuition, depending on availability of funding until the students have completed their secondary education. Each student is required to re- qualify on an annual basis. We seek to add new students every year to make sure that no kids left without the education they desperately need.
Medical program
The problem
Haiti, for decades, have been exposed to so many disasters that complicates the health of the people. Four storms–Fay, Gustav, Hanna, and Ike dumped heavy rains on the impoverished nation, let flood waters rampage into large areas of the country. Particularly hard-hit was Gonaives, the fourth largest city. According to reliefweb.org, the rains from 2008’s four storms killed 793, left 310 missing, injured 593, destroyed 22,702 homes, and damaged another 84,625. About 800,000 people were affected–8% of Haiti’s total population. The flood wiped out 70% of Haiti’s crops, resulting in dozens of deaths of children due to malnutrition in the months following the storms. Damage was estimated at over $1 billion, the costliest natural disaster in Haitian history. The damage amounted to over 5% of the country’s $17 billion GDP, a staggering blow for a nation so poor.
Haiti’s cholera outbreak has killed roughly 10,000 people and sickened more than 800,000 since 2010, when it was introduced into the country’s biggest river from a U.N. base where Nepalese peacekeepers were deployed according to CBS News. Then comes Hurricane Mathew which already killed about 15000 people and about 20000 animals. More than ever before, heath experts are predicting serious health consequences. Haiti needs, beside all other help possible, very serious medical attention to help restore the and keep its public health crisis under control.
How we are helping
To help respond to this critical situation we have created a group of local Haitian Doctors and Nurses lead by DR. Wisly Charles to organize mobile clinic.
What we need
Now we need Doctors, Nurses from the US, Canada and anywhere else to join our local team. We also need to build a actual physical clinic that must serve as a base. We need about 3 pickup trucks for transportation. We need lots of medication, and money. Please help!
