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Action Humanitaire

Organization:
Facility Type: Info/Hotline
Status: Open

Address:
Cavaillon, HT 00000

Region:Sud
County/Parish:Aquin, Anotte



Main/General Business Number: (509)-3472-6161 (Haiti) / U.S. (617)777-4363
Website: http://www.actionhumanitaire.org/

Management Contact: (hidden)
Management Phone: (hidden)

Mission: Background
Action Humanitaire is an outreach organization in Cavaillon,Haiti . Our primary goal is to provide free health care services to children and adults in the community of Cavaillon and it’s surrounding villages. This initiative took place after a group of medical and nursing students originally from Cavaillon noticed the mortality rate in the region steadily increasing year after year. Based on this alarming statistic the students took the initiative to help and educate this community on how to better care for their loved ones and themselves.

Cavaillon is a community in the district of Aquin, south of Haiti. It was founded in 1796. It has 5 communal sections: Boileau, Martineau, Gros-Marain, Marre-Henry and Laroque which are respectively first, second, third, fourth and fifth section. Each section is divided into villages. The town of Cavaillon is located in a flat plain region; it’s climate varies from mild to extreme heat and humidity. Its people are called Cavaillonais (Males) or Cavaillonaises (females). The population of this region is approximately 47500 people for a surface of 246.16 square kilometers and it’s density is 192 people per square kilometers.

The roads which connect the town of Cavaillon to the communal sections are severely damaged and difficult to drive on. The Communal sections have no infrastructures, more than 90% of the people live with less than 1 U$D per day and they live off only from agriculture, in these sections there is no drinking water and there is not even a nurse to care for people when they are sick.





This organization provides Temporary or Permanent Service? Temporary

Notes:

12/7/10 Update from Christina Kriach (Humanity Road volunteer):

Jude did receive all those supplies from Partners in Health today, basically a complete CTC. He received 10 beds, 64 buckets, a big tent, lots of IV fluids, oral meds, chlorax, antibiotics, special meds for pregnant women,
they came with a truck and delivered all that.

NOTE: Per Paul Rudenberg of American Univ. there is no one to man the hospital site and run the CTC. No update as of 12/12/10 on this status.

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URGENT PLEA FROM JUDGE LEANDRA 12/5/10:

-22 Cholera patients in Sud Dept, District-Aquin, Cavaillon, Custine
-No more IV supplies
-No transportation to CTC
-No. of fatalities unknown
-No local medical facilities

Phone for Jude:

3779 7965
3472-6161

LTeltoe has queried:

Judy Foster - Harvest House Haiti
Cosy Joseph
PAHO

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11/7/10: Jude Leandre of Action Humanitaire is reporting an urgent need for food, medical care and supplies for this region on Twitter after assessments post Tomas.

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Project Description

Construction of a Public Health Center
Location Anotte
City Cavaillon
County Aquin
Department Sud

For a long time the people of the second section of Cavaillon, especially those of Anotte and it’s surroundings, have been left on their own and have been living in extreme poverty in a degree often not being able to care for their vital needs.

Besides this precarious economic situation the access to basic health care is made difficult by lack of a Basic Health Care Center. Up to now Haitian government, represented by the Secretary of Public Health and Population (MSPP) has never taken effort to bring a solution to this problem.

5% of the population have minimal financial resources. When they become ill, the hospital to turn to is Hôpital de Lumière, a private and thus very expensive hospital. It is located about 70 km away. The fee for transport to and back by a motorcycle (the easiest way to travel) varies between 500 and 700 gourdes (ca. US$15-18) and can reach up to 2500 gourdes (US$57) to rent of a small truck in case the sick can’t be transported via motorcycle.

Those 95 % who have to get along with less than US$1 by day have to address a badly equipped medical station in Cavaillon which is also very dysfunctional for all the 475000 citizens of Cavaillon. To get there and back the patients have to pay a minimum of 200 gourdes (ca. US$5) transport fee. When they arrive and can find a health station (which has no drugs) in the same day because of the mass of patients, they have to pay a fee for the consultation and the examination, for the laboratory and finally they have to buy medications which are very expensive. About 80 % of the inhabitants are not able to come up with the money for all those fees due to their bad financial situation.

The people of Cavaillon are very young, however the mortality rate among young people, especially among mothers and babies are increasing on a yearly basis . This is due to the lack of a public health care center. Due to this facts, Action Humanitaire has set the goal to establish a public health centre in Anotte. To realise this vision the organisation needs to raise about US$24,394.78.

Benefits of this Project

The project will be open for all people of Anotte and the surrounding communities (Bercy, Cassignol, Berette, Mission, Mapangue).

Aims of the Project

* Improvement of the living conditions of the people of Anotte and surrounding communities. Granting these people free access to basic health care of high quality.
* Diagnose, treatment and prevention of maladies.
* Reduction of the mortality rate.
* Possibility for pregnant women to deliver in a clean environment.
* Basic vaccination for children
* Free laboratory examinations for the desperately sick.
* Free access to medication needed for the desperately sick people.
* Employment

Expected Results

Action Humanitaire expects the following results:

* A well equipped public health care center with qualified staff that is capable of giving quality care.
* Reduction of the mortality rate in this area
* Increasing life expectancy.
* Improvement of living and the sanitary conditions can motivate the beneficiaries to develop these in their environment
* Improvement of information about prevention of infectious diseases, especially those sexual transmitted diseases
* Improvement of information about family planing
* Enhancement of the immunization rate of children
* Creation of new employment
* Finally improvement of the general living conditions of the population
* Indicators of progress
* Prolongation of life expectancy
* Decreasing the mortality rate
* Increase in numbers of children vaccinated
* Increase in numbers of women delivering in clean environment
* Number of staff employed

Activities Cost (USD)
Settlement 323.00
Groundwork 117.00
Spoil, Foundation, Basement 4432.00
Construction 7276.00
Ceramic Tiling 4443.00
Electricity 401.00
Rendering and Painting 4216.00
Sanitary installations 1001.00
Total 24395.00

Info Source/Changes:

Created At: Sun Nov 07 23:14:41 +0000 2010
Updated At: Sun Dec 12 18:33:53 +0000 2010
Updated By: LTel


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