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Haiti: Programs and Projects
The United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR) supports several projects in Haiti, including a hot lunch program for Methodist schools, Grace Children's Hospital, and community agricultural programs. For example, the School Hot Lunch Program provides meals at 93 schools, mostly in rural areas. It reaches 16,877 youngsters. The program is so important to the health and nutrition of children that it is continued in the summer through Vacation Bible Schools. The hot lunch ministry needs some $480,000 per year but only $223,815 was raised in 2003, meaning that it must be cut back in the months ahead. All programs face higher fuel and food prices-- so a gift to a favorite Haiti Advance, such as the School Hot Lunch Program, Advance #418790, will help cover these additional costs.
One hundred percent of your tax-deductible gift will be used for the program that you designate. The generous giving of United Methodists to the One Great Hour of Sharing supplements the cost of Advance gifts. Give through a local United Methodist church or send financial contributions to: UMCOR, 475 Riverside Dr., Room 330, New York, NY 10115. Call 1-800-554-8583 to make a credit card donation.
UMCOR Advance Programs and Projects in Haiti
Agroforesty and Animal Husbandry, Advance #418309
This project combines three approaches to stewardship and protection of the earth and its creatures. Tree cutting, soil erosion, and floods have led to the loss of cultivatable land. The agrogorestry program, with the establishment of nurseries for production of fruit and forest seedlings, will address this loss. In the seven Methodist circuits, tree planting will be carried out with provision of seedlings, fertilizers and equipment. To care for the animals, two annual immunizations campaigns will be carried out. One will prevent "coal disease" which attacks cows, horses, goats and lambs. The second will protect cattle with "Anit-Newcastle" doses. A cross-breeding of the indigenous chickens with Rhode Island Reds will be carried out to improve meat production. More...
Agrosiliviculture, Advance #418155
Grassroots International and Peasant Movement of Papaye (MPP) is currently providing leadership to this project in Haiti's Central Plateau. Together they are aimed at reversing the tide of environmental destruction and strengthening food security at the family and community levels. Agrosilviculture entails using both forestry and agriculture. The MPP organized and mobilized 330 agrosilviculture brigades to carry out program activities in their communities. More...
Child-to-Child Health Promotion, Advance #418242
Haiti is the poorest country in the hemisphere and suffers from poverty which breeds illnesses. Haiti's infant and under five mortality rates are the highest in the developing world. Haiti's children desperately need programs aimed at helping them gain access to basic health services. Leading causes of death among children are diarrhea, acute respiratory infection, and malnutrition. In terms of children in the USA, and particularly children within the church, there exists a tremendous need for solid and compelling mission education. There is a need to help our children in North America gain greater understanding of the world in countries such as Haiti. More...
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Community Health Worker Training Program, Advance #418705
The goal of this program is to clinically prepare indigenous leaders as Community Health Workers (CHWs), providing them with the appropriate health care skills that will promote the health and self-sufficiency of people in their communities; and to conduct annual workshops for heads of health agencies for teaching and supervisory purposes for health professionals who teach and monitor the community health workers. Since 1982, over 700 Haitian Community Health Workers have graduated from this program and continue to serve in their rural communities. More...
Credit and Commerce for Rural Women, Advance #418204
The credit program assists rural women in marketing agricultural goods and other products.It began in the Cayes circuit with 165 women organized into 12 groups. Ninety percent of the women were able to repay their loans and a high percentage of them were able to continue their business. After the initial success, the program expanded to the Petit-Goave, Port-au-Prince and Carrefour circuits. In four circuits of the Methodist Church of Haiti a community store program has been established, but the stores lack stock. This project supplies agricultural inputs and basic necessities for the stores which will be available to the community at affordable rates. More...
Grace Children's Hospital, Advance #418520
With over 30 years of experience growing out of the vision of a Methodist couple to provide care for children with tuberculosis, GCH is now Haiti's leading curative and preventative treatment center for children and families suffering from TB. Through time, and in response to the needs mentioned above, Grace has taken intentioned steps towards a broader, integrated program of health promotion and disease prevention. Specifically targeting desperately needy slum communities surrounding the hospital. In short, Grace has become the hub of an integrated health service delivery system reaching an immediate population of roughly 50,000 while continuing to be the leading referral center for pediatric TB for the entire country. More...
Grain Processing and Preservation, Advance #418523
This project consists of five mills for processing cereal grains in the Methodist circuits of Cap Hatien, Cayes and Petit-Goave. In these circuits, farmers often have to walk for hours to reach a grain processing center. Six hundred seed silos are planned for the Jeremie project. The silos will provide storage capacity for sixty farmers' groups. The project also provides sixty drying areas and insecticide to assist with food preservation. Training seminars are held for leaders of farmers' groups in seed drying methods, storage and management, and integrated pest management. More...
Guest House, Advance #418340
The Guest House accomodates work teams. Volunteers using the facilities pay a small fee that helps repay the original expense of purchase. More...
Health Care and Medical Mission, Advance #418656
Health centers and care are very scarce in much of Haiti and people often have to travel a distance to a major town which entails transportation costs and delays in treatment which are often too high a cost for the people to pay. The Methodist health care centers and mobile clinics are offering services not otherwise available. Also, in Petit Goave a mission eye care clinic has been established and staffed through 58 work teams involving 77 different health care personnel. More...
Integrated Community Health (CAT), Advance #418847
The CAT/CHP (Community Health Promotion) program is entirely led by Haitian nationals. Its goal is to improve the overall health of the target population, particularly the health of women and children by increasing access to effective and affordable community based primary health care services; and stimulating and establishing sustainable mechanisms at the community level, which is designed to increase awareness and mobilize a community response. The core program interventions include immunization, Vitamin A distribution, growth monitoring and nutrition surveillance, distribution of oral rehydration salts, family planning, pre and post-natal care, combined with extensive community participation.More...
La Gonave Development Fund, Advance #418625
The Eglise Methodiste D'Haiti (Methodist Church of Haiti) has been working on the island of La Gonave attempting to raise the standard of living as it reaches out through a variety of developmental and educational programs. Small groups of men and women have been formed to work cooperatively. Watermelon, beans, peanuts and corn have been planted. A community store at Source-au-Philippe has been started where tools, seeds, sugar and cooking oil may be purchased at reduced rates. More...
La Gonave Education Fund, Advance #418626
Contributions to this Advance provide funds for teachers and supplementary food for primary schools on La Gonave. The Methodist Church runs ten schools on La Gonave. A hot meal is served at lunch time to every child, often it is their only meal for the day. Pre-school children often arrive at mealtime and are fed as well. Seminars are provided for teachers, and students receive assistance with uniforms, books and medical care. Teachers' salaries and school maintenance are supplemented. A sewing center for girls has been established to teach new skills. More...
Leadership and Lay Training, Advance #418631
The program of leadership training is a high priority of the Methodist Church in Haiti. It provides education in literacy, the Bible and administration. The church is intensifying and extending its training on the district and circuit levels. In a less formal setting, the church reaches out to youth and young adults with education to enable them to participate effectively in the life of their community and nation. More...
School Hot Lunch Program, Advance #418790
The Eglise Methodiste D'Haiti (Methodist Church of Haiti) has 105 schools (elementary, secondary and vocational) located throughout the country with an enrollment of almost 17,000 students. Haiti is the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere. The school term is 180 days; over half of the schools provide a canteen program or school hot lunch program. In most of the schools, this program is provided only a few days each week due to lack of funds. For many of the 16,000 students who attend our Methodist schools in Haiti, the hot lunch of beans and rice is the only food they will eat each day. Twenty cents will buy rice and beans for a child's lunch in Haiti. More...
Water Development, Advance #418900
This project will provide potable water for communities on the island of La Gonave and for the circuits of Petit Goave, Les Cayes, Cap Haitien, Jeremie, Port-au-Prince and Carrefour. Access to potable water is problematic for many Haitians particularly in the rural areas. Some people have to walk long distances daily to supply a families' daily needs for water, and traveling these distances sometimes cannot secure the quantities they need. Water is often accessible in the rainy season, but lack of storage facilities do not allow a supply of water be made available in the dry season. More...
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