Physical Health Haiti Project #8349

Help De-worm and Nourish Haiti's Children

by International Action

Project Report | Jan 30, 2017
Working Together Now and in the Future

By Jeffery Sejour | Board Member

Women giving pill

At International Action, we are a hands-on organization. We are in the field working side-by-side with local community leaders to ensure a continued relationship of good will exists between IA and the people of the area. This friendly and effective relationship has been life changing for both sides while bringing clean water and smiles to many.

We have provided 56 Haitian schools with Albendazole ourselves and work with Planting Peace, Samaritan’s Purse and AmeriCares to provide clinics and hospitals with everyday access to the de-worming medication so we can prevent children from becoming sick with intestinal worms in the future. This past year we treated and protected 150,000 children from intestinal worms.

We teamed up primarilay with Haiti Clinic and Children's Health Ministries (CHM) who we have been working with as in country partners to distribute albendazole deworming pills for the past couple of years.

Haiti Clinic operates two main clinics in Baoica and Cite Soleil, both are staffed with Haitian staff who care for patients during the week. They conduct as many as 6-9 remote clinic trips to areas without access to care. They return to those areas a minimum of twice a year to provide albendazole in addition to primary care. The clinic tracks the dispensing of albendazole for patients in their medical chart. Many of their patients return for follow up for other health issues by noting their last dose of Ablendaloze on their chart helps to ensure they receive there next pill when its due. The clinic has two deworming days at the clinic per year. The community health agents encourage patients in the nearby communities to visit the clinic for the medication. Education on intestinal parasites is also provided on a regular basis so the community can understand why this medication is so important especially for children.

Haiti Clinic is very thankful of the partnership with International Action and the donation of Albendazole without it they would not be able to help the number of patients we do.

And in turn we are thankful of your donations that enables us to contine our deworming program!

Screening Clinic

Bottles

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Jun 21, 2016
For only $5,000, we can protect 175,000 children from intestinal worms

By Zach Brehmer | Board Member

This child will now be protected for a year!

International Action’s mission is to protect Haitian families from the devastating effects of waterborne illnesses. We accomplish this in three main ways: community-based water supply, a child-based deworming initiative, and mother and child-based vitamin deficiency prevention program. While our main focus continues to be increasing access to clean water for the most vulnerable children and families in Haiti, today, we are asking for your support for our de-worming.

We work with non-profits organizations and many local Haitian clinics to provide de-worming medication (Albendazole) and Vitamin A and multi-vitamins to children and mothers. These medications are critical components in bringing relief to many of the afflictions associated with unsanitary water (i.e. malnutrition, dehydration, and diarrhea). We have been leading this program since 2012 because women and children in Haiti need them.

We have just recently received the supplies and medicine needed to protect 175,000 children from intestinal worms. Now, we need your help to distribute and administer treatment at schools and clinics throughout West and Central Haiti. Already, we have put in place plans to help 60,000 children this summer. With your help, we will be protect 175,000 kids from intestinal worms.

De-Worming Campaign

Intestinal worms are the most common infection of children in Haiti (90% infected, World Health Organization). Many of these children come from impoverished families. Intestinal worms cause children to have diarrhea and severe stomach aches, often leading to inflated school absenteeism rates. To make matters worse, intestinal worms can take away up to 20% of a child’s daily nutritional intake. The way to treat and protect children from intestinal worms is through the administration of a tablet called Albendazole. It only costs 2 US Cents to provide the amount of Albendazole necessary to treat and then protect a child in Haiti from intestinal worm infections for an entire year. Through public health-led studies it has been shown that de-worming programs similar to ours reduces school absenteeism by 25%. This improvement in school attendance has improved the adult wage earnings of these children enrolled in the program by 23% -- a tremendous long-term benefit to the children themselves and their future families. We have provided 56 Haitian schools with Albendazole ourselves and work with Planting Peace, Samaritan’s Purse and AmeriCares to provide clinics and hospitals with everyday access to the de-worming medication so we can prevent children from becoming sick with intestinal worms in the future. This past year we treated and protected 150,000 children from intestinal worms. This year, we plan to help 175,000 children.

Please, support us in protecting thousands of children in Haiti from intestinal worms and chronic diarrhea so that the kids in Haiti can grow to their full potential.

Best,

Zach Brehmer

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Jun 21, 2016
Every time we love, every time we give, it's XMAS

By Jeffery Sejour | Treasurer

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