Prevention & Relief to 15,000 in Haiti & Guatemala

HRI launched this project to help gain support for our dozen plus education & prevention projects due to COVID-19. Although we did not gain much support from GlobalGiving partners for this particular project, we received a lot of support from other fundraising platforms. As a result, HRI has been able to impact thousands of lives the past two years. This report will focus on 2021 program totals. 

2021 was another year of great challenges due to the devastating impacts of covid-19, natural disasters (including the Haiti earthquake which was the largest disaster in the world in 2021), civil unrest, and alarming rates of increasing poverty in Haiti and Guatemala. According to the UN, covid-19 has led to the first rise in extreme poverty in a generation, compounding the threats to progress raised by conflict and climate change. HRI staff saw this impact first-hand in the lives of the children and families we serve.

In 2021, HRI partners together provided 686,646 meals in Haiti and Guatemala including 595,439 meals in Haiti and 91,207 meals in Guatemala. Since we began working in Haiti and Guatemala, 15,427,382 meals have been provided to over 3,500 children!

We served thousands of people in 2021 in addition to continuing covid, health, mental health, and other education, prevention and disaster relief programs. A brief outline below shows how our support goes well beyond just meals:

Guatemala:

• Distributed 4 water filters in Guatemala.
• Completed 9 latrines in Guatemala.
• Distributed 35 safe cookstoves in Guatemala.
• Completed 46 Trainings with 663 total adults on: Hygiene, Sanitation, Covid Prevention, Family Planning, Nutrition, Health, Mental Health, Entrepreneurship, Child Care, Gender Equality, Community Leadership, Perspectives on Youth, Respiratory Disease, Digestive Disease, How to use Water Filter/Safe Cookstove/Latrine, etc.
• Completed 244 Trainings and Activities with a total of 480 youth/children served through HRI's Youth Peace Building Program: Up to 480 youth present at the largest event (festival) with an average attendance of 75 youth at 6 HRI Youth Safe Spaces. Trainings covered Sanitation, Hygiene, Confidence Building, Communication Skills, Decision Making Skills, Setting & Achieving Goals, Transforming Conflict, Problem Solving, Skills for School & Beyond, Meaning Making, Lving Healthy, Municipal Policies/Law/Rights of Children, Sex Ed/Reproductive Health, Nutrition, Environmental Care, Gender Equity, Spirituality, Entrepreneruship, Diaster Prevention, Creating Murals, Planting Trees, Festivals, Arts & Crafts, Sports, Violence Prevention and more!
• 188 children and 94 adults in the feeding program received 89,400 meals; most were served through baskets distributed to families due to school closures the majority of the year.
• 54 toddlers in the early childhood feeding program received 9,990 meals.
• Continued Faith Leaders in Action group with 10 church pastors from the community.
• Reached 100+ people through Covid Care Calls to check on people's mental health and pray with them.
• Christmas Celebrations for 3 rural villages, youth program, elderly program and for staff & volunteers; Total of 528 people served.
• Organized special projects for 134 people (improved homes, emergency medical care, entrepreneurship, speciality school tuition, food baskets and more).

Haiti:

• 478 children in Haitian orphanages received 503,889 meals.
• All orphanages had access to clean water.
• Sanitation improvements were provided by HRI's Engineer in many orphanages.
• One orphanage received new mosquito nets for all children.
• 73 total trainings in orphanages on Hand-Washing, Sanitation, Personal Hygiene, Health, Psychosocial Support Trainings, etc.
• 31 adult caregivers in orphanages received heath trainings as well.
• Weekly Spiritual Development through Pastor led Bible classes at 2 orphanages (several have their own pastors who do this already).
• Multiple Life-Skills Activities for children in orphanages and communities.
• Every child in orphanages that were safely accessible were de-wormed at least once by HRI's Nurse.
• Every child in orphanages safely accessible received medical exams and medications for conditions as needed by HRI's Nurse; 348 children total.
• 2 weeks of Youth Summer Camp with 100+ children and 50+ parents from the community present.
• 31 Children First Parent Trainings with 48+ families.
• 525 total children benefited from HRI's new Child Protection Program through Children First.
• 147 home visits were conducted.
• Christmas Celebrations in most orphanages.
• 50 hand washing stations distributed through the community as a covid prevention and sanitation project.
• 215 children in the school feeding program benefitted from school tuition and 58,050 nutritious meals.
• HRI responded to the devastating mag 7.2 earthquake by: 1) Distributing 3,000 emergency kits to 18,000 people; 2) Distributing food and water to 1,000 people totalling 5,000 meals and 1,250 gallons of safe drinking water; and 3) Distributing food and water to 2,160 people totalling 26,250 meals and 2,800 gallons of safe drinking water. In total we served 21,160 impacted by the quake.

Together with covid, earthquake, continuing and new programs, HRI served 326,052 people in 2021! If you remove the covid and earthquake disaster relief programs, we together served 4,702 people in 2021 (including 2,727 children). 

THANK YOU for your partnership! We hope you'll consider giving to one of our other projects on GlobalGiving moving forward!

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