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Children's Home and Outreach project in Haiti

Summary

Please help us open a new Children's Home for 15 children, and start an extensive outreach programme for street children, orphans, special needs children and many other children at risk. progress reportread updates from the field


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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

In 2005 according to UNICEF an estimated 490,000 children (0-17 years) were orphaned in Haiti. Many children in North Haiti are sadly abandoned at hospital facilities, others left to fend for themselves on dangerous streets, some trafficked into slavery. Our home will provide a home for 15 children and provide the base for an outreach programme which will include health and social education and awareness, health care, and pre-schools tackling illiteracy and child development.

Activities

Our home will offer 15 children the loving home they desreve. Our pre-schools and children's clubs will offer valuable and unique development and support for currently unreached children through art, sport, music, reading and writing programmes.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: £1,046
Remaining Goal to be Funded: £7,005
Total Funding Goal: £8,051

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

This programme will support over 1,000 children and help reduce illiteracy, increase social and health awareness amongst children enabling them to attend school and eventually gain employment, reduce the risk of sexually transmitted diseases.

Project Message

"The cost of us helping to save the life of one child is a tiny sacrifice compared to the cost for them if we choose not to act."
- Carwyn Hill, Co-Founder of the Haiti Hospital Appeal

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Carwyn Hill,
Project Manager
30 Gates Green Road
West Wickham
Bromley, Kent BR4 9JW
United Kingdom
+44 7764 198921
Email:

Project Sponsor

Haiti Hospital Appeal

Organisation

Haiti Hospital Appeal
30 Gates Green Road West Wickham
Bromley, Kent BR4 9JW
United Kingdom
+44 7764 198921
http://www.haitihospitalappeal.org

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Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in Haiti and can also be found under Human Rights.

For more information about Haiti, read the Human Development Report on Haiti or the Wikipedia entry for Haiti.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on July 23, 2010.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on August 21, 2008.

Latest Update from the Field

We Won't Forget

By Guylee Simmonds - Logistical Coordinator (volunteer), July 16, 2010 09:37 PM

One of our children learning to play.One of our kids in afternoon play

Last week, representatives of Handicap International and IOM (International

Organisation for Migration) visited the Children's home and commented on how

special the project was and the positive feeling that the home has. We continue

to care for some of Haiti’s most vulnerable children currently we have about 70

children on the program, though at least 20 of these are on a waiting list.

Each week we have new families arrive with their children who are physically or

mentally disabled. Sadly, unless we can raise more money we can’t help these

new families. We’re already at full capacity, but have a desire to see the

project expand and to be able to care for more children. Each child is treated

individually, so we do not want to bring more children into the program until we

are sure we have to staff and resources to be able to show them the love and

care they deserve. At the moment we limit the number of children a day to 15 to

ensure this. By continuing your help and support we can continue to provide

respite care for these children and hopefully expand the project to give more

physically and mentally disabled children the support they might not receive

anywhere else.

The project is soon to invest in a motorbike for the children’s home

administrator to enable us to increase the influence of the project. The bike

will enable him to go and minister to children who live further from the home,

support struggling families and to transport some children to the home on

specific days if necessary. We want him to be able to invite more children to

come join the children’s home, as there is no other centre that cares

particularly for disabled children in the surrounding area, but unfortunately

children currently have to be added to a waiting list.

On the six month anniversary of the tragic earthquake that devastated Haiti we've launched

a new campaign called 'We Won't Forget.' So many in the world have already

forgotten this desperate little nation. The call we're making to our supporters

is to declare that you won't forget. We would ask that you spend just a few minutes to visit our new

website: www.haitihospitalappeal.org.

It has new blogs, photo's, films, news, and a special page dedicated to our campaign..

'We Won't Forget.' Please join with us and declare to the world that this country hasn't been forgotten.

We need your help to continue all our work. The emergency remains, and the crisis is still urgent.

Thank you for all your support! We would ask you to continue your support, to

enable us to expand our work to enable us to help the huge numbers of children

who desperately need it.

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