Combat Childhood Malnutrition in Haiti

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Summary

Zanmi Lasante (Partners In Health) fights childhood malnutrition by producing Ready To Use Theraputic Foods, enrolling kids in a food supplement program, and providing nutritious school lunches.

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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

A Haitian proverb spotlights the connections between disease and hunger, medicine and food: "Giving drugs without food is like washing your hands and drying them in the dirt." Almost one quarter of the children in Haiti face chronic hunger. We work to prevent childhood malnutrition through nine clinics in Central Haiti and the Artibonite District with a combination of malnutrition treatment and prevention programs for children.

Activities

Treat severely malnourished children with Nourimanba (peanut-butter based Ready to Use Theraputic Food); provide moderately malnourished children with Nourimil (ereal-legume blend); support local production; provide a daily warm lunch to schoolkids

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $2,664
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $47,336
Total Funding Goal: $50,000

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This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

ZL can currently meet the needs of approxiamtely 12,800 children. This project will enable Zl to enroll more children in these programs, preventing childhood malnutrition and supporting the farmers and workers who produce the Nourimanba and Nourimil

Project Message

"This program not only treats malnutrition, but benefits the farmers and employees in Cange who are part of this program - local production creates jobs that would otherwise not be there."
- Erica Phillips, Leland Hunger Fellow, staff at Zanmi Lasante

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Ali Lutz,
Haiti Program Coordinator
641 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02115
United States
6174325256
Email:

Project Sponsor

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Organization

Partners In Health (PIH)
641 Huntington Ave, 1st Floor
Boston, MA 02115
United States
(617) 432-5256
http://www.pih.org

Learn more about Partners In Health (PIH) and the project team.

Partners In Health (PIH)'s Current Projects on GlobalGiving

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Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in Haiti and can also be found under Health.

For more information about Haiti, read the Human Development Report on Haiti or the Wikipedia entry for Haiti.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on November 17, 2008.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on November 17, 2008.

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