Two of Haiti's significant barriers to health care are the lack of transportation and lack of providers. Those who can't travel to get care and tests are the most vulnerable and often left without proper health care. There is no public transportation in Haiti, and even when available, transportation is costly and can be unsafe for pregnant women and children.
Through our fantastic giving community, we were made aware of Hands Up for Haiti, an organization that delivers lifesaving healthcare services to the sickest and most impoverished people of northern Haiti. For Project 27, eMite will sponsor a laboratory at Hands up for Haiti's facilities in Madeleine, a neighborhood in Cap Haitien that serves a population of 20,000 people.
Once the lab is up and running, they will provide testing services to women in their prenatal program, children in food programs, and individuals who exhibit signs of underlying health conditions. Having this newly built and furnished laboratory will allow Hands Up for Haiti to promptly provide accurate lab test results, significantly improving their care delivery.
Project 27 – Healthcare for Haiti is your opportunity to give those most in need access to essential health care services. Let's join together to show the people of Haiti hope!
Project Scope
Country: Haiti
City: Cap-Haitien
# Served: 20,000+
Need: COMPLETED
Project Updates:
October update
Because of your support over the last several months, the sickest and most impoverished people of northern Haiti have received quality healthcare. Earlier this year, you sponsored a laboratory at our partner Hands up for Haiti's facilities in Madeleine, a neighborhood in Cap Haitien that serves a population of 20,000 people. The laboratory provides testing services to women in their prenatal program, children in food programs, and people who exhibit underlying health conditions.
Our team has already traveled infield to complete Project 27 and is now hard at work to deliver a Celebration Video straight to your inbox so you can see the lives touched through your giving. Stay tuned!
June Update
Infant check up at mobile clinic.
The team on the ground is very busy buying all of the supplies and establishing the formal protocol. This truly will enhance Hands up for Haiti’s ability to deliver quality — and timely — care to their program participants.
It may also be the first step in realizing their team on the ground’s grand dream: to not just continue to run all of their programs to serve the poorest of the poor, including Mobile Santè, but also to establish a community health center where services would be provided on a sliding scale.
April Update
We want to share an email we received from Karen Schecter, our partner at Hands Up For Haiti.
"Please know that this project is getting more exciting by the moment; I truly believe that this lab is not just a powerful addition to the services we provide that will clearly have a positive impact on our program delivery, but it is also the starting point for the dream held by our staff on the ground: a community health center that will continue to offer our programs free for those in need, as we do now, but that will also offer significantly discounted health services for the entire community and surrounding areas with local doctors donating time and services in exchange for being able to use the space."
Our partner is currently in the process of converting the room with the cabinets pictured below into the laboratory. It has good lighting, windows, and electrical wiring. We are excited to see the laboratory up and running, serving thousands in Madeleine!
March Update
Meet the Hands Up for Haiti team that will be in charge of the medical laboratory you're helping sponsor in Cap-Haitian, Haiti.
Thermitus Jean, in-country Executive Director, Pharmacist, and an accomplished interpreter, speaks Haitian Creole, French, English, and Spanish.
Dr. Rose-Laure Jeanty, Medical Director, who served as a generalist physician at Promoteur Objectif Zerosida, with Médecin Sans Frontières/Doctors without Borders, and at Orphelinat Maison D’Espoir.
Miguel-Ange Michael, Malnutrition Program Administrator & Logistics Coordinator, who studied political science at the Police Academy in Port-au-prince and information technology at Dominicano Haitiano Centro Tecnologico in Cap-Haitian.
January Update
The goal of Project 27 explained by Hands Up For Haiti's Leadership Team:
"To reduce two of the major barriers to health care in Haiti -- lack of transportation and lack of providers -- and with our goal of continuing to provide better health care services to those most in need, the most vulnerable -- the ones who can't travel to get care and tests, especially the women in the prenatal program, we would like to set up our laboratory. We would love to assist women and children who are very vulnerable. We work in more than 4 sites where we work to help people through health difficulties; getting lab tests done in a good way is not always possible."
Once the lab is up and running, they will provide free lab tests to women in their prenatal program, children in the malnutrition program who exhibit signs of other underlying health conditions, adults in their hypertension program, and those they see in their Mobile Santè clinics. Results will be timely and accurate, significantly improving their medical care.