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Haiti Marycare

Organization:
Facility Type: Info/Hotline
Status: Open

Address:
U.S. Address: 55 King St., Danbury, CT 06811
, HT 00000

Region:Haiti, Caribbean
County/Parish:



Website: http://www.haitimarycare.org/

Other Contacts:(hidden)

Mission: Haiti Marycare works with local partners to improve lives through child and family health programs, education, and community development.





This organization provides Temporary or Permanent Service? Temporary

Notes:

See Clinics Haiti Marycare supports in the database at:

http://www.citizencommandcenter.org/shelters/show/5513
http://www.citizencommandcenter.org/shelters/show/6919

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Our Activities

Haiti Marycare's efforts are concentrated in the isolated fishing village of Jacquesyl, located on Haiti's northeast coast between Cap Haitien and Fort Liberty, and in Cite Soleil, the poorest of the slums in the capitol, Port-au-Prince. We have been active in Haiti since 1994, addressing three areas:

Child and Family Health. Our health services focus on prenatal and childbirth care and on the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases, including HIV/AIDs, tuberculosis, and malaria.

Education. We support preschool and primary school education for all children, as well as educational and economic opportunities and gender equality for girls and women.

Community development. We promote quality of life by providing clean drinking water, encouraging ecological preservation of land and sea, supporting improvements to subsistence farming and fishing, and cultivating Haitian arts, music, and culture.

Our Approach

We come first to observe, listen, and learn from the community as they describe their most urgent needs, then to reflect with them to discern the action required to meet those needs, and finally, to work together with mutual respect to achieve integrated health, education, and community development goals.

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We believe that every person has gifts and talents that can be useful to help others. Some may want to join us on a service trip to Haiti, but you do not need to travel there or be a health professional, engineer or agriculturalist to help. Whatever your back-ground, there are many creative ways to help out. Our volunteers have helped using writing skills, computer skills, accounting backgrounds, board experience, cooking and nu-merous other experiences to assist Haiti Marycare. Our featured volunteer, Kris Beckman, has not only gone to Haiti as the first dental hygienist in Jacquesyl, but in addition to her many other skills is designing, painting and sewing an original quilt for auction to benefit Haiti Marycare. If you are interested in volunteering or would like further information about ways to help, please contact Joan DeFrances at jdefrances@haitimarycare.org or (203) 248-0244 or Tom Larkin at tlarkin @haitimarycare.org or (203) 797-1893.

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Created At: Mon Feb 21 23:37:09 +0000 2011
Updated At: Tue Feb 22 15:17:04 +0000 2011
Updated By: LTel


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