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Education: We Believe That Education Is The Backbone of Social and Economic Development
Education: We Believe That Education Is The Backbone of Social and Economic Development
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students attend Hope for Haiti supported schools every school day
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school directors and teachers salaries provided by Hope for Haiti
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partner communities supported by Hope for Haiti
HEALTHCARE
We believe that access to quality healthcare in Haiti is a human right.
Haiti reports some of the world’s worst health indicators, which continue to inhibit the
country’s development. More than 40 percent of the population lack access to essential
health and nutrition services, and healthcare in Haiti has the highest rates of infant,
under-five and maternal mortality in the Western Hemisphere.
According to the Center for Disease Control, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, diarrhoea,
respiratory infections, malaria, tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS are the leading causes of
death when it comes to healthcare in Haiti. And these preventable diseases pose an even
bigger problem for people in rural areas, were 60 percent of the population lack access
to basic health-care services.
Primary Care
Hope for Haiti operates a health clinic in Les Cayes, Haiti that provides healthcare and
health education to more than 15,000 patients annually with a specific focus on chronic
illness prevention and treatment, dental care, and wound care.
Mobile Clinics
Hope for Haiti’s doctors and nurses conduct mobile medical and dental clinics in rural
communities throughout southern Haiti.
WATER
We believe investing in smart WASH programs reduces poverty.
We’ve done the research, and we’ve seen the results of instituting clean water projects
in Haiti: investing in smart Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
programs reduces poverty.
Today, less than half of Haitians in rural areas have access to water, and an estimated
24% of Haitians living in rural communities have access to a toilet. Access to clean, fresh
water is a main concern in Haiti, where waterborne illnesses, such as typhoid, cholera,
and chronic diarrhea, are the cause of more than half of the deaths in the country every
year. Contaminated water is also one of the leading causes of childhood illness and the
very high infant death rate in Haiti (57 for every 1000 births) .
To address these challenges and help reduce poverty, Hope for Haiti implements a
WASH program in 24 communities that focus on the following core activities.
WASH Programming
Hope for Haiti’s WASH staff help communities build critical public health infrastructure
such as latrines and hand washing stations. Our Healthcare team collaborates with our
clean water projects in Haiti staff and community members to introduce public health
lessons that cover hand washing, basic hygiene, the prevention and treatment of water
borne illnesses.
INFRASTRUCTURE
Investment in Haiti infrastructure projects is a key to ending poverty.
Today, there is an acute shortage of key infrastructure to support Haiti’s systems for
education, healthcare, hygiene and sanitation, economic development, and disaster
preparedness. There are many Haiti infrastructure problems that Hope for Haiti seeks
to address.
More than 50% of all classrooms in Haiti are not suitable for learning, and sufficient
healthcare facilities have been a significant roadblock to improving poor healthcare
services in Haiti for generations.
Underdeveloped and inadequate sanitation facilities such as latrines and hand washing
stations also pose a threat to the Haitian people. Frequent natural disasters and a lack of
coordinated disaster response have exacerbated these problems, which affect both
rural and urban communities in Haiti.
ECONOMY
We work to reduce inequality and poverty through economic development in Haiti.
Intelligence and ability are equally distributed throughout the world, but access to
economic opportunity is not. We are working to change that through Haiti economic
development.
Roughly three-quarters of Haitians are either unemployed or trying to make ends meet
in the informal economy, and 75% of Haiti’s people live in abject poverty. For the
entrepreneurs and businesses that do operate in Haiti, access to financing and start-up
funding is extremely difficult to obtain thanks to Haiti’s economic situation.
In order to reduce inequality and promote Haitian economic development in building an
inclusive and cohesive society, Hope for Haiti invests in social entrepreneurs and
businesses by making loans and grants. We believe that a well-established social
entrepreneurship programme in Haiti helps to enhance its sustainable development
programs and create more jobs not only for youth but also for other marginalized
populations around the country.
Our Haiti economic development investments are targeted to support the social and
economic development of education, healthcare, sustainable agriculture, renewable
energy, gender equality, and eco-tourism.
Program Areas
Grants
Hope for Haiti makes grants of up to $30,000 to support social business start-ups and
entrepreneurs.
Loans
Hope for Haiti makes loans of up to $100,000 to support social business start-ups and
entrepreneurs.
Micro-Loans
Hope for Haiti makes small loans of up to $5,000 to support rural farming cooperatives
and rural businesses.