Complex & Outreach Facility for Displaced Children

Thanks to all of you, as well as some other very caring people, the HSKI Complex & Outreach Facility for Displaced Haitian Children is well on it's way to being realized.  Appropriate land has been located and funds to purchase this land have been secured.  As soon as the paperwork and formalities for purchasing the land is completed, the next step of physically securing the land and preparing for the structures and infrastructure will begin within the next few weeks.

In has become increasingly imperative that we get the children currently with HSKI out of the camps and into this new safe complex as soon as possible. In the last three weeks there have been 3 cases of cholera requiring hospitalization, one case of a boy coughing blood from active tuberculosis requiring treatment at GHESKIO, and another of the younger boys suffering from a recurrence of malaria requiring treatment.  As a result of the unmaintained, unhygienic and violent conditions of the camps, another child lacerated his foot fairly severely last night at the camp which required numerous stitches and treatment. We have contacted volunteers that will help staff an in-house clinic on the new complex that will immensely improve the children's ability to remain safe and healthy.  Aside from this are the winds, continuous rain and flooding that is making life very miserable and destroying the tents and little houses in the camps on a continuous basis.

The conditions at the camps are what is making the land and complex a priority and making it imperative that we work as quickly as possible to remove the children from the camps and into a permanent, safe and clean environment.  It is also becoming increasingly difficult for the young street kids still on the streets to remain safe and obtain what they need to survive. The new complex, when complete, will allow us to take in many more of these children, and as we expand will have a place for even more. The Outreach Facility that will be a part of the complex, will also offer services and substance to the children that we are not yet able to take in on a full time residential basis. 

The initial structures that will be placed on the new land for the children will be domes of various sizes that will be obtained from The Haiti Domes Project which has a manufacturing facility in Port au Prince and will allow us to avoid any tax, customs or overseas shipping expenses while obtaining good dependable shelter for the kids on a timely basis. As time goes on, we will solicit various organizations and private donors to sponsor one or more of these domes to allow us to take in more deserving children. Thirty beds have already been donated by a Florida manufacturer and are currently being shipped to Haiti for placement at the complex once the domes are in place.

Thanks again to all of you that have made, and will continue to make, this very vital and important project become a reality.  Your generosity and caring has helped put an end to much suffering and has replaced misery with hope. Your caring and continued support will help save many more lives and give a home and family to street kids and runaway slave children still living in torment and danger.

Links:

• HSKI - The Mission

• Haiti Domes Project (PDF)