Give Haitian Girls a Choice to Safety from COVID19

Dear Friends and Donors

While 2021 is coming to an end, I would like to express our deepest gratitude to all our generous support. Thanks to your support, adolescent girl’s lives are slowly coming back to normal in light of the Covid-19 pandemic.

In fact, we have provided psychosocial support for over 1,500 adolescent girls. Also, we have provided relief emergency support including food, face masks, sanitizers and cash voucher for economic recovery. More than 25 mentors have strengthened their capacities in new technologies and communication. They are now organizing remote meetings with girls in order to strengthen their capacities on sexual and reproductive health, financial literacy, prevention of gender-based violence, children’s and Covid-19 prevention measures. So, our mentors became our very strong contact on the ground.

But we can’t continue all this important work without your support. The financial difficulties in Haiti are dire, all due to lost jobs and a lack of any aid from the Government. Currently, the country is facing alarmingly high rates of violent crime and mass displacements. Unfortunately, adolescent girls are at the most elevated risks of sexual violence. So, our communities and girls need our help more than ever.

Help us spread the word to help collect the remaining funds. Please consider sharing with your friends, colleagues, and networks.

The HAGN team wish you Happy Holidays and the best for the New Year!

With our warmest gratitude.

Links:

• HAGN Website

Dear Friend of HAGN Girls,

It’s with great pleasure and gratitude that I am sharing positive results on our Give Haitian Girls a Choice to Safety from COVID project.

For the past three months, Haiti experienced an upsurge of COVID-19 cases, unreliable electricity, and increased urban violence threatening the well-being of adolescent girls and families. These problems has accentuated the humanitarian crisis and increased the risk of violence against girls.

Thanks to your generous support, HAGN provided to 12 mentors air time and smartphones to facilitate communication and promotion of safety measures for keeping adolescent girls safe from the virus and the risk of violence in rural zones of Grand-Anse (where girls are at the most elevated risks of sexual violence). Now, mentors use their smartphones to communicate with girls and share useful information on Gender-based Violence and Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Prevention and Protection in these times of crisis.

This is an uncertain time for all of our girls. Haiti is currently enduring an extraordinary period of compounding political, economic, and public health crises including a magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck it August 14 in the southwestern, killing at least 1200 people and injuring more than 5,000. So, your financial support is very important and gave our girls the resources to remain safe, protect them against gender-based violence and strengthen them and their families' well-being.

So, I would like to thank you very much for your support. Other adolescent girls rely on your support to help them deal with emergencies. Help us spread the word to help collect the remaining funds. Please consider sharing with your friends, colleagues, and networks.

With my profound appreciation.