Haiti is now over six months removed from the massive earthquake that has forever changed the landscape and people of this island nation. World Neighbors has been on the ground in Haiti since 1966 and will be with our Haitian neighbors as long as it takes for their communities to thrive on their own. Click below to learn more about World Neighbors work in Haiti.
Hope for Haiti Video
To learn more about World Neighbors long term commitment to our neighbors in Haiti, please view World Neighbors new video, “Hope for Haiti” and then pass it on so others can understand what it will really take for Haiti to truly overcome this tragedy.
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World Neighbors has worked to address the needs of the more than 10,000 people who have migrated out of Port-au-Prince and into the rural communities located within our program areas. These communities were not adequately prepared to receive that amount of new inhabitants, but this surge of people created an obligation to address the immediate needs – “neighbors” sharing their supplies of food and clean water and offering health and sanitation services.
World Neighbors, alongside our partners, have worked to ensure those needs are being met. More than 3,000 families have received health sanitation training and vitamins and iron for babies and pregnant women. More than 6,000 local farmers were provided seeds and planting materials such as cassava, yam, sweet potatoes and other indigenous vegetables to accommodate the increased demand for food in the communities. Thousands of earthquake victims now have access to latrines and water filters for water treatment, and three nurses have been hired for six months to organize trainings on basic hygiene and sanitation, improved nutrition practices, and reproductive health issues, all of which will decrease the spread of diseases. A social worker has also been hired for one year to lead some of this work in the affected communities.
These short-term immediate steps are designed in a way that seeks to return the communities as quickly as possible back toward our long-term development goals.
The staff also needed to relocate outside of Port-au-Prince. The World Neighbors office in Port-au-Prince suffered damage during the earthquake, so the staff team worked quickly to relocate the office in the town of Mirebalais, about an hour and a half from the capital city.
World Neighbors has partnered with tens of thousands of rural Haitians in the last five decades to find long-term solutions to hunger, poverty and disease. We have no intention of leaving once the dust settles from the earthquake relief efforts. We are determined to help tens of thousands more survive the aftermath of the earthquake and to rebuild their lives … to help them discover that they can become self reliant.
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World Neighbors has partnered with tens of thousands of rural Haitians in the last five decades to find long term solutions to hunger, poverty and disease. We have no intention of leaving once the dust settles. We are determined to help tens of thousands more survive the aftermath of the earthquake and to rebuild their lives … to help them discover that there is hope … that they can become self reliant. All of this is possible.
But, now the Haitian people need more than hope. They need World Neighbors and friends like you who will stand with them through the long process of recovery and support their path to a better future. Through the Haiti Fund, you can provide steady, dependable support for our neighbors in Haiti over the course of the year and for very little money each month you will have an amazing impact.
$5 a month could provide training in community health for 100 people.
$10 a month could supply the seeds for 200 family gardens.
$25 a month could supply 10 families with a water filtration system.
$50 a month would provide a community latrine for more than 300 people.
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Your monthly gift will help Haitian families meet their immediate and longer term needs through World Neighbors programs that:
Meet increased food demands through the building of grain banks and by supplying fast growing seeds for greater food production.
Help build latrines, family shelters and improved water systems.
Train more community health workers and expand access to health clinics to meet the physical needs of those who arrived injured and educate villagers on how to prevent the spread of disease.
And there are so many other great ways to help. Click here to learn more ways you can help share what World Neighbors is doing and raise funds for the long-term development of these communities.
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Located in the Caribbean, Haiti is slightly smaller than Maryland. Home to over 9 million people, Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere with over half of the population living below the poverty line of less than $1.25 a day.
The hurricane season of 2008 was extremely hard for Haiti. The country was hit with four hurricanes in three weeks. It was the most catastrophic season for the last 50 years. Because of World Neighbors program areas adopting successful agricultural practices, credit activities, seed banks and farming diversification, the participants were better equipped to overcome the devastation than traditional farmers.
World Neighbors has had programs in Haiti since 1966 centered on eliminating hunger, poverty and disease. This strategy addresses the inter-connected problems of declining food production, malnutrition, ill health and environmental degradation in underserved areas of Haiti. World Neighbors currently works in eight program areas, all of which are located north of Port-au-Prince. Currently 222 communities participate in World Neighbors people-centered programs, benefiting over 5,400 households.
 World Neighbors 4,377 farmer volunteers have learned to diversify their fields which will allow them to harvest all the year, feeding their families during the food scarcity period. A vegetable garden can provide tomatoes, peppers, okra, sweet peppers, cabbage and carrots.
Over 4,700 people are participating in credit activities through World Neighbors. Those activities contribute to improving their wellbeing and their families by increasing their household income and protecting them against usury credit.
Access to clean water is a main priority for many communities. About 18 sources of water are being managed by local organizations and 156 new water filters finished. The number of cases of typhoid and diarrhea are much less among the participants who take part in the community health programs.
Basic education, or raising awareness, is the starting point for the improvement of the living conditions of this population. Once local leaders participate in the programs, they are proud to share their knowledge and leadership to their neighbors, further spreading World Neighbors successful programs.
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