I am pleased to share this update on the impact of your generous support. FAHM continues to provide capacity building for Haiti’s midwives so that they can provide equitable, high-quality health care in their communities and help stop violence against women.
FAHM is largely funded by philanthropy and uses gifts like yours to assist in promoting midwifery education and leadership, the midwifery profession and midwifery model of care, and providing community education and outreach. Hait’s midwives stand strong in combating gender-based violence.
Youth Education
Thanks for standing firm with Haiti’s midwives as they continue to tackle this issue through a comprehensive, holistic approach which supports girls’ rights and gender equality by providing sexual and reproductive education and health care to Haiti’s youth. In May alone, your help impacted 160 youth. They received interactive learning sessions on hygiene, nutrition, and early pregnancy prevention and gender-based violence.
Mobile Clinic
Your sponsorship helped reach 166 people in a very remote coastal area in the south region of Haiti. The midwives and their team were able to provide education and health screening (gender-based violence, family planning, sexual & reproductive health care, pregnancy, postpartum, newborn, and primary care).
All this would not be possible without you. Thank you. Your support continues to play a vital role in helping Haiti’s midwives in providing dignified, compassionate sexual and reproductive health care and education from birth through menopause.
The right to health care is a basic human right. Please help us to continue this important work. Here are ways you can help:
DONATE
Please consider a one-time donation or becoming a FAHM IMPACT PARTNER (monthly donor). Your strong and steady monthly support will empower midwives in doing what they do best: keeping birth and reproductive services safe, respectful and accessible. Your generous and reliable monthly gifts will enable us to both plan for the long term and quickly respond when unexpected crises arise.
SPREAD THE WORD
Please spread the word to your family, friends and on your social media networks about FAHM and help us promote our mission. Follow us on Facebook, Instagram (@forhaitianmidwives) and LinkedIn. Please tag, share, like!
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INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY
MARCH 8
Wouldn’t it be great to live in a gender equal world free of bias, stereotypes, and discrimination? A world that is diverse, equitable, and inclusive and where differences are valued and celebrated? Let’s unite to ensure women are not just treated equally, but also equitably!
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We are now in the season known as a time for gratitude, activism, and giving.
November 24-Thanksgiving. It traditionally began as a day of giving thanks and sacrifice for the blessing of the harvest and of the preceding year.
November 25-International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. The 16 days between November 25th and December 10th (Human Rights Day) are known as the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence which is a time to galvanize action to end violence against women and girls around the world. The slogan used is “Orange the World.” Orange symbolizes a brighter future free of violence.
November 29-#GivingTuesday. It is the first Tuesday after Thanksgiving. It is touted as a "global generosity movement unleashing the power of people and organizations to transform their communities and the world." It is known as a Global Day of Giving.
You have stood strong and unwavering in your support of bringing Haitian midwives opportunities that assist them in being the changemakers who lead progress in their communities. Thanks to you, Haitian midwives have the capacity to provide health equity: equal access, care, and health outcomes for all no matter economic, social, or environmental disadvantage. Equal access to quality healthcare is a basic human right.
Your support enables us to stand accountable by our joint investment in a future that believes in their agency, leadership and potential. Your help provides:
In times of natural disaster, pandemics, economic and social unrest…together we answer the call. Gender based violence and sexual and reproductive health care is always a constant.
Let’s continue our call to action! Let's keep our programs running. Help spread the word. Contributions of all sizes make a difference, as a one-time donation or as a monthly donor.
On November 29, Giving Tuesday, from 12 midnight to 11:59 pm EST, GlobalGiving will giveaway $1.2 million to nonprofits around the world as part of their #MoveAMillion campaign for GivingTuesday. Your donation will help us unlock a greater share of those bonus funds! DONATE TODAY & SPREAD THE WORD.
Thank you for your support.
Educating Haiti’s Youth
Haiti has a population of approximately 11 million people, and Haiti’s youth, those 25 years old or younger, make up more than half of that population.
Gender-based Violence (GBV) is a complex, multifaceted issue. The failure to globally implement comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) puts all people at increased risk of violence. GBV occurs among people of all genders, although GBV disproportionately affects women and girls. In order to take steps towards dismantling and eradicating GBV, all genders must be included in the conversation.
Bodily autonomy is a human right. It includes being given the critical information required to protect and understand our bodies and rights. Midwives aim to make resources and services more readily available and accessible, and increase community awareness of gender-based violence as a public health issue and violation of human rights. Haitian midwives are in the optimal position to provide accurate and culturally appropriate education on sexual and reproductive health and on GBV to Haiti's youth.
To that end, your support is enabling Haitian midwives to provide comprehensive sexuality education (CSE). CSE is developmentally and culturally relevant, science-based, medically accurate information on a wide range of topics, including human development, gender identity, sexual behaviors, communication skills, empathy, and mutual respect. It encompasses identity development, gender equity, building healthy relationships, and violence prevention.
Your support helps equip Haitian youth with the necessary knowledge and life skills to develop healthy self-identities, challenge societal norms, prevent GBV, and ultimately, lead healthier and more fulfilling lives. It’s way more than just teaching young people how to have safer sex. It helps dismantle systems of power, oppression, and misinformation that allow for sexual and reproductive health and rights injustices to even exist.
Continuity of care and services are of utmost importance in influencing positive growth and development. So far this year, your support has helped develop and implement on-going monthly group education and activities for 106 youth, as well as helped to educate 115 high school seniors from four different schools.
Here is what Sandra, a 15-year-old participant, had to say after attending an educational field trip to Fort Liberté (Fort-Liberté [Kreyòl: Fòlibète] is the administrative capital of the North-East Department of Haiti. It is the oldest city in the country. Haiti's independence was proclaimed here on November 29, 1803):
“In school we learn about slavery and how we got our independence, but today I truly understand what it really means to have freedom and be able to enjoy basic human rights like body autonomy. My voice matters and just as I need to respect others, I, too, deserve respect.”
Please help us to continue to enable Haiti’s youth to claim their right to their own bodily autonomy which can ultimately play a role in preventing sexual harassment, assault, and abuse. Your support enables midwives to teach Haiti’s youth the skills needed to develop healthy relationships and to prevent and not perpetrate (and perpetuate) violence.
Please consider a one-time donation or becoming a FAHM IMPACT PARTNER (monthly donor). Your strong and steady monthly support will empower Midwives in doing what they do best: keeping sexual and reproductive health services safe, respectful and accessible.
Investing in midwives means investing in a stronger and equitable today and tomorrow. Together we can make an impactful difference.
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International Women's Day is celebrated each year on March 8th.
Theme: International Women’s Day: “#BreakTheBias. Changing Climates: Equality today for a sustainable tomorrow recognizes and celebrates the contribution of women and girls around the world who are working to change the climate of gender equality and build a sustainable future.
Breaking stereotypes, building self esteem, opening doors to a life of possibilities starts with our youth.
Thank you Grace Community Birth Center for your partnership and hosting 80 youth for a day full of celebration and learning about gender equity and building a sustainable future through interactive activities (music, poetry, dance, plays). Each participant was given a citrus tree plant, from Jardin Verdure Pepiniere, to take home and care for. They learned about the impact of agriculture on climate change, and the nutritional benefits of citrus. This is part of an ongoing pilot project with New York University's first ever Global Doctoral of Nursing Practice studying Positive Youth Development.
Imagine a gender equal world. A world free of bias, stereotypes and discrimination. A world that's diverse, equitable, and inclusive. A world where difference is valued and celebrated. Together we can forge women's equality. Collectively we can all #BreakTheBias.
Join us in calling for equal pay, equal economic opportunity, equal legal rights, reproductive rights, and the prevention of violence against women and girls.
Please consider a one-time donation or becoming a FAHM IMPACT PARTNER (monthly donor). Your strong and steady monthly support will empower Midwives in doing what they do best: keeping birth and reproductive services safe, respectful and accessible and #BreakTheBias.
Investing in midwives means investing in women and girls for a stronger and equitable today and tomorrow.
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