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Dear ,
Despite the challenges this year, Hands Up for Haiti - with YOU by our side - is hard at work on the ground in Haiti: BUILDING A BETTER FUTURE
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To meet the need, HUFH: - added a 5th site to our malnutrition program, in the rural village of Gede;
- launched a well-baby initiative, offering preventative care from birth to 6 months;
- welcomes Dr. Saintilme Onil, a Haitian OB/GYN, to our prenatal program;
- built a 14th water well in the Cap Haitien neighborhood of Petit-Anse;
- is expanding Mobile Santè, our in-country led mobile pop-up clinics to communities in need;
- added vision screening to our Mobile Santè protocol;
- is embarking on a project to create an in-house lab to better serve our patients;
- is partnering with OneSparrowDC, a nonprofit that plants and operates farms, to launch a home-farming project to address the food insecurity our families face.
And we've been able to do it because of YOU. Here are some thumbnails of the success you've helped create.
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THIS IS WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE |
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HELPING CHILDREN: PEDIATRIC EMERGENCY MEDICAL AND SURGICAL FUND
Dalles Kerry was born with a cleft lip and palate, making it difficult for him to eat. After we screened him for malnutrition and other health issues, HUFH arranged for essential surgeries at a collaborating hospital hours away, and even accompanied him and his mother to his consultation. His mother brought him back to show how big and strong he’s grown after surgery, and to express her “feelings of thanks to us for all we do.”
Hands Up for Haiti continues to be there for children like Dalles, a true, and truly adorable, success story! |
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HELPING BABIES: NEW WELL-BABY INITIATIVE, PREVENTATIVE CARE FROM BIRTH TO 6 MONTHS
HUFH is constantly looking for new ways
to expand and enhance our programs. We have historically begun to treat
children when they come to our malnutrition program, which, in
accordance with international protocols, treats children only between
the age of 6 months and 5 years. But we asked ourselves: "Why wait until
6 months to care for babies?" At HUFH we believe that babies deserve
good preventative care, much the same as in countries where resources
are not limited. By promoting good nutritional and health practices for
infants, we can ensure they will never need to enroll in our
malnutrition program.
For every child a chance to grow and thrive, a true, and truly lifesaving, success story! |  |  |
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HELPING EVERYONE: HYPERTENSION SCREEN & TREAT
Mme. Derveline Noël just celebrated her 106th birthday! Amazing, considering the life expectancy in Haiti is only 64, a full 14 years less than life expectancy in the US. High blood pressure leading to stroke is one of the biggest culprits. HUFH helps older adults like Mme. Noël stay healthy with our Hypertension Program, which provides blood pressure medication and counseling in all of the communities we serve.
Hands Up for Haiti helps promote continued good health, a true, and truly equitable, success story! |
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NEW COLLABORATION: ADDRESSING FOOD INSECURITY AND THE ROOT CAUSES OF MALNUTRITION
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NEW HOME FARMING PROJECT
Sometimes, a partnership opportunity comes along that is the exact right thing at the right time: a collaboration to address food insecurity.
The problem: HUFH’s runs lifesaving health care programs that treat malnutrition in children and in expectant and nursing mothers and others, and that promote breast feeding and other healthy behaviors. When children and mothers graduate from our programs, however, they are faced with the same issue that put them in the programs in the first place: food insecurity. Haiti has long had the highest level of food insecurity in the Western Hemisphere, with over 40% of the population living in daily hunger, putting them at risk of malnutrition, stunting, infection and death.
The solution: A serendipitous introduction led us to OneSparrowDC ("OS"), a nonprofit organization that focuses on two pillars, agriculture and community health education, and that already runs a community farm in the Cap Haitien area where children and their families learn how to farm and how to take their produce to market. Together, HUFH and OS are bringing farming to the families in the communities we serve.
Our collaboration has already begun: Hovard, OS's chief agronomist, has been visiting our families' homes in Limonade to pick garden sites and make sure there is water nearby for irrigation (thankfully, HUFH has built multiple clean water wells that will help in this effort). Families are receiving seeds for nutritious crops and will attend weekly educational sessions on how to plant, cultivate, use, and sell their crops. This instruction will supplement the education sessions we already run at our healthcare program sites, which address the basics of good nutrition, the importance of breastfeeding, meal planning, and the importance of water sanitation and proper hygiene. Eventually, our individual family farms will combine to form co-ops which will share the harvest, with the goal of creating a CSA (community supported agriculture), increasing access to healthy food, combating malnutrition, and creating new opportunities for job development, all leading towards better health for the entire community. This exciting new partnership between HUFH and OS is aspirational: to create an environment where children and their families can do more than just survive, but can truly thrive! |  |  |
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SPECIAL PROJECT: IMPROVING HEALTH CARE WITH TECH!
DO YOU HAVE USED ELECTRONICS? WE NEED YOUR DONATIONS!
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We need your help with an exciting new initiative: bringing technology to our communities and creating a lifeline to improve health care delivery by our doctors, nurses and community health care workers.
Specifically, we need:
- IPADS Generation 5 and above with at least 128GB, for our new medical records platform.
- Other Electronics, to enable better communication, data collection and community education:
- Cell phones - any generation
- Tablets - any generation
- Laptops
- Prefer to chip in and help buy one? Join the campaign here.
As a bonus, your donation is tax deductible.
Please contact us by clicking here to arrange for a pickup, or ship your donation, with chargers and other accessories, to Hands Up for Haiti, PO Box 913, Mount Kisco, NY 10549. |  |
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 | Cooking Haitian with Spring Flavors:
an interactive cooking class featuring a unique Haitian recipe, made simple for the home chef.
When: Tuesday, March 23, 6:30 pm Where: Your kitchen!
Presented by Michelle Timothee, - award-winning Haitian-American chef - BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND!
Attendees at this event will receive a bag of fresh spices and a unique cooking tool needed to make the evening's concoctions a success. |
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