Canadian Feed The Children - 2010 Haiti Earthquake Response
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- Mission
- Canadian Feed The Children is the bridge between caring Canadians who want to reach out to help and the precious children we support together. We are an independent, registered Canadian charity that exists to reduce the impact of poverty on children. We work with local partners in Canada and around the world to enhance the well-being of children and the self-sufficiency of their families and communities.
- Areas served
- Port-au-Prince, Gressier, Delmas, Carrefour, Goyavier
- Service
- Temporary
Notes
On January 12, Haiti experienced a 7.0 earthquake with extensive loss of life and destruction in the Port-au-Prince area.
We have confirmed that our staff and sponsored children are safe. Our community partners are viable and ready to provide urgent aid.
Your donations will help address critical food and water shortages, and other urgent needs, in the communities we support.
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Assesments -
http://www.canadianfeedthechildren.ca/pdfs/Fact-Sheet-on-Haiti.pdf
Canadian Feed The Children’s involvement in Haiti -
We have been providing support to partners in Haiti for over a decade.
We have a field office located in Port-au-Prince that provides on the ground support to our partners.
Our main sectors of focus include health, nutrition, food security, and education.
We have also provided funding for agriculture, environmental protection and water/sanitation programs.
Currently we are working with four partners in Haiti -
House of Hope, Grace Children Hospital, Organisation de la Mission Evangelique Salem (OMES), Service Oecumenique d’Entraide (SOE)
- supporting over 12,000 people.
Location of Canadian Feed The Children partners:
• HOH – Gressier, MMI level: IX
• GCH – Delmas, MMI level: VII
• OMES –Carrefour, MMI level: VIII
• SOE –Goyavier, with head office in Port-au-Prince, MMI level: VII
Assesment report in:
http://www.canadianfeedthechildren.ca/pdfs/Fact-Sheet-on-Haiti.pdf
http://www.canadianfeedthechildren.ca/pdfs/releases/Haiti-Quake.pdf
Based on information from the U.S. Geological Survey, some of the charity’s Haitian community partners are in the worst hit areas: The House of Hope orphanage is in Gressier where damage to the area has been rated 9 out of 10 on the intensity scale; the OMES partnership in Carrefour has an 8 out of 10 rating; Grace Children’s Hospital in Delmas rates 7 out of 10; and Canadian Feed The Children’s office and its partner SOE’s office is in Port-au-Prince, which rates 7 out of 10
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Note -
What's in a name? Our organizational name is similar to that of other charities, which sometimes causes confusion.
We are an independent Canadian organization, overseen by a dedicated board of directors and are not affiliated with Feed The Children Inc.,
headquartered in Oklahoma USA, or its Canadian affiliate, FTC Canada, which recently began operations out of Guelph, ON.