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CNP - Children's Nutrition Program of Haiti (FIELD HOSPITAL/MEDICAL TEAMS/MEDICAL SUPPLIES)

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Mission
The CNP is a non-denominational, faith-based organization. Our mission is to raise a healthy generation of Haitian children, who will in turn raise Haiti from poverty. The CNP works to achieve this mission, in partnership with our Haitian brothers and sisters by: Empowering mothers and other caregivers through community-based health and nutrition education using locally available resources and employing Haitian supervisors Providing direct health care, including therapeutic rehabilitation for severly malnourished children, mobile medical clinics, and community treatment of pheumonia and rheumatic fever Supporting health-related community development programs, such as increasing access to safe water to prevent diarrhea and other water borne illnesses
Facilitating the participation of poor families in proven Haitian microcredit programs
The CNP was founded by Dr. Mitch Mutter, a cardiologist from Chattanooga, Tennessee in 1998 after repeated medical mission trips to Haiti throughout the 1980's and 1990's. The CNP was incorporated as a 501c3 non profit organization in 2004. The CNP is also registered as a Private Voluntary Organization (PVO) with USAID. The CNP works in partnership with Holy Cross Hospital, run by the Episcopal Diocese of Haiti, in Leogane, Haiti, 18 miles outside the capital, Port au Prince. Please click on the above links for more information about our work. The CNP is largely funded through individual contributions, which can be made by clicking on this link.
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Earthquake Response

Having Haitian and American staff on the ground allowed the CNP to quickly respond to the devastation caused by the earthquake. Within days emergency medical personnel and supplies were landing in Leogane. Our Emergency Response Team is working in Leogane full-time, coordinating medical teams, providing clean water, food and other resources, and operating a field hospital with several other organizations. A big focus for us has been rapidly scaling up our existing Nutrition and Safe Water Programs to meet the increased needs of the communities in Leogane.

Ashley Aakesson, CNP Executive Director, has been working with World Wide Villages to set up and manage a supply chain for Leogane including coordinating 2-4 charter flights a day ensuring the delivery of medical teams, medical supplies, safewater supplies and food. Albert Point Du Jour, CNP Deputy Program manager, has been working on logistics at Hopital Ste. Croix, the Nursing School and the Filariasis House.

Cathy Dorvil, former CNP Executive Director, and Nathan Michaels, CNP volunteer, worked for two weeks immediately after the quake setting up a safe water system for distribution to the displacement camps, distribution food in Leogane and assisting medical personnel. Cathy Dorvil reported that between January 19 – January 26, 950 patients were treated at the emergency clinic. Conditions treated have ranged widely including wounds, fractures, pneumonia, a variety of infections, malnutrition and pregnancy. Services provided include medications, wound care, amputations, tendon repair, and treatment of fractures, among others.

Kara Telesmanick, the CNP Program Manager whose home was destroyed in the quake, is back in Leogane and helping to plan the long term response to the quake and recovery.

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