Provide care for malnourished children in Haiti

Dear Friends,  

On behalf of all our staff and patients, thank you for your generous giving to Partners In Health! We are so grateful for your partnership in supporting our fight against child malnutrition in Haiti.

Haiti is grappling with an escalating humanitarian crisis, pushing the country closer to famine. Armed groups are operating in the areas where we work, which really impacts how we can address malnutrition.

Despite this, all facilities are open and providing essential care. For our community health workers addressing child malnutrition, this work is a testament to their unwavering compassion. Our team continues to work to fulfill our promise to Haitian children.

Over the past 5 months,we manufactured 44,729kg of Nourimanba, our fortified, peanut-based food supplement used to treat children with malnutrition.The nutrition program continues to support patients in 12 sites. Over the same five months, almost 6,000 patients were fed from the nutrition program, and 43,418kg of Nourimanba was distributed. Through mobile clinics outreach, patients who are malnourished are referred to our facilities to receive treatment. The team accomplished 144 mobile clinics between Hinche and Saint- Marc from July to Sept 2024.

We have an emergency protocol in place that focuses on the continuity of essential health services, which includes child malnutrition programs. We are truly grateful for our staff’s immense bravery, as they remain committed to serve those most in need.

In times like these, your support allows us to keep going for children in Haiti. Thank you for standing with us, for believing in our mission, and sharing in our commitment to Haiti’s future.

With gratitude,

Partners in Health

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On behalf of all our staff and patients, thank you for your generous giving to Partners In Health(PIH)! We are so grateful for your partnership.

Despite the unprecedented challenges facing the Haitian people, many of our Zanmi Lasante (ZL), as PIH is known is Haiti, colleagues are feeling cautiously optimistic. The current situation is marginally less chaotic compared to the spring. Unfortunately, gangs continue to spread violence while obstructing the movement of food, fuel, and medical supplies. 

Your support is making it possible for Zanmi Lasante, to continue provide malnutrition screening, treatment, and education to respond to this crisis.

 Nourimanba, ZL’s ready-to-use therapeutic food for combating child malnutrition (produced in partnership with local farmers), experienced a five month production pause due to difficulty importing key ingredients. Thankfully, the long-awaited shipping containers were finally released from port and production is once again operating as usual. Clinicians and community health workers continue to address malnutrition through mobile clinics and other initiatives throughout communities in the Artibonite region.

 The mobile clinics are critical to the program because they allow our teams to reach remote communities and identify malnourished children earlier, so treatment can be delivered before health problems turn fatal. However, amid the current national instability, it has become exceedingly challenging for our teams to travel with mobile clinics, as they face fuel shortages, violence, and unpredictable roadblocks that restrict the team’s movement.

Despite this, our nutrition team has persisted, finding ways to reach our patients at home–whether by rescheduling clinic visits or finding alternative routes. Their dedication has provided lifesaving care for families all over Haiti.  

Haiti’s population continues to be vulnerable to malnutrition, facing food insecurity, poor infrastructure–particularly in terms of water and sanitation–and, currently, political and economic instability. We can’t thank you enough for your continued, critical support of our patients and staff in Haiti. 

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