35 Cents Feeds a Hungry Child

With 100% of operations run by local, trusted Haitian employees with facilities outside of the gang-controlled areas, we are not running away from this crisis.  Instead, we are committed even more to help our sponsored children and families survive this crisis.  Our priorities have been to secure food for the children we serve and provide shelter for our sponsored children’s families who were displaced from their homes by the gangs in Port-au-Prince.   We continue to keep 3 months of food in reserve for our 63 orphaned children in Port-au-Prince.  In addition, are thankful to many compassionate donors, we have been able to pack 400 crisis relief kits filled with food staples and personal care items and distributed them all to displaced families.   The notes of thanks from our sponsored children’s parents have been so encouraging.  We are now looking at a second round of food assistance in April to these families as the crisis continues and can certainly utilize additional crisis relief gifts for this effort.

I am thankful to report that nine of our ten schools continue to operate most school days and are serving a hot meal to all the children at their schools.   We are making alternative arrangements for the students of our one school unable to physically operate – Delmas Christian – since it is still in a gang-controlled area.   Our 9^th grade and 13^th grade students at the school will meet at the Cazeau Christian School to continue studying for their national examinations and our Delmas teachers are providing online lessons for the other grades through the end of this semester.  

Links:

• Providing Emergency Relief Kits