Fast
Facts on Haiti
Haiti
is the poorest country in the western hemisphere.
The unemployment rates are hanging between 65-75% with a minimum
wage of only $1.50 per day.
Currently
4,000 to 6,000 infants are born HIV-positive in Haiti.
Approximately 30,000 Haitians died last year of AIDS-related
causes. 74 out of each 1,000
live births die before their first birthday.
More
than one-third of school-aged children do not have the chance to attend
school. In many areas the
schools have no chairs or desks and students must sit on bare ground.
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Welcome to the Haiti's Children
Relief Project, Inc.
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Our mission
is to promote a better quality of life for the deprived children of
Haiti by providing nutritional, health and educational assistance.
Our short-term objectives
include raising funds to assist poor families in Haiti with clothing,
books and other school materials for the start of school in September;
and purchasing desks, chairs and black boards for selected schools based
on their needs.
Our Long-Term
Objectives -
Establishing a health
and nutrition program (specifically focusing on 0 to 10 years of age),
including promoting breastfeeding, immunization, and providing school
lunches.
Establishing adolescent and youth programs that will focus on preventive
health, including HIV/AIDS prevention and control. Develop
basic education and early childhood care and development programs for
the 0 to 6 age group, with an emphasis on low-cost models to serve the
poor and community-managed initiatives.
Building schools,
with an emphasis on improving teaching quality and providing access to
health care services.
HIV/AIDS will be central to curriculum development and teacher training.
Improving access to
schools throughout the countryside, and providing transportation to
students in areas where it is impossible to build a school.
Instituting child protection programs for abandoned children, child
servants, orphans, minors, and social integration of those suffering
exclusion, exploitation, violence and abuse. It will focus on
strengthening the capacity of institutions to plan, manage, monitor and
evaluate, as well as the capacity of families and communities to
respect and protect rights.
Ike's floods kill
dozens, cut off aid to parts of Haiti
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Last year, in a space of 2 weeks,
Haiti has been affected by three consecutive hurricanes making the
situation of the people on the island worse. Your donation will help
to assist the victims with food, clothing and other basic necessities.
All donations will be used exclusively for the Children's
program.
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