Our Current Projects:
(Click on each project to learn more)
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| Marie-rose Community School |
"Ecole Communautaire de Marie Rose" is located in Jacmel, Haiti's Southeastern region. At-Risk Children Foundation's plan is to address the urgent humanitarian needs of the children, and to simultaneously establish the basic for recovery. The approach for the strategy of intervention is by phases. Phase I was the rehabilitation of an old coffee warehouse depot into a two-classroom school, four cubicle's Pit Latrine, and a water reservoir to ensure that the children live in a secure, safe and healthy environment, according to the minimum standards. This has been accomplished.
In order to achieve Phase II, which is to add six more classrooms, a small cafeteria with kitchen, and a warehouse depot, we need US$117,000. Support this transition. It comprised projects for lodging, water, preventive healthcare, education, nutrition and more... (Not funded yet) |
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| Home-Group Care |
After February 2004, the population displacement in Haiti, although difficult to evaluate, has been on the move from urban centers to the countryside and vice versa, seeking protection and subsistence. Some of our children were forcibly removed from Port-au-Prince to a safer environment in the southeastern region of Haiti. The relocation caused us to add 26 more children in the program. We provide them with food, clothing, and more. The parents who are temporarily helping raise these children until we build their own home., require ongoing special resources and support.
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| Healthcare Surveillance |
Despite the distance, rough roads traveling through the country, the volunteer Doctors, maintain their routine clinical visit. Dr. J. Estrada has never wavered in his commitment toward the children's well-being. He's using one of the classrooms for its routine medical checkup, follow-up visits for the children and staff with our part-time nurse.
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| Meet Half Way Program |
Although public education in Haiti is free, the cost is still quite high for the Haitian families who must pay for their children's uniforms, textbooks, supplies, food and other necessities. These additional costs result in school being out of reach for poor families' children. This problem resulted to an illiteracy rate of more than 55% of the Haitian population not being able to attend school.
The At-Risk Children's Foundation "Meet Half Way Program" encourages parents to provide for the uniforms, food, transportation and the foundation will do the rest by paying the school entrance fees, the yearly tuition fees and provide for each child a pair of sneakers and books.
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| Water Project |
The main source of water for the children and the entire community is a river called “Zorangé,” located down the mountains, almost two walking hours back and forth from where they live. Only getting to the river is a challenge. As a result, they have to drink rainwater collected in buckets or, more commonly, in natural potholes in the stony ground, many livestock roam freely, grazing the sparse vegetation. This polluted water has been responsible for serious public health problems, in particular gastrointestinal distress and worms, leading to malnutrition, and to death.
Good planning, generous donors and quick actions have resulted in plentiful water for sixty-six orphaned Haitian children, for the staff and families who look after them and for the community which housed them. “It must have been meant to be “ stated OFI Vice-president, Pat Winkley. Mr. A. Kernan a supporter of At-Risk Children’s Foundation contacted OFI seeking urgent support to build a water cistern to catch and hold water for the Home-Group families and the surrounding community. The urgency was due to the fact that the rainy season begins in late April and end in mid-August. A formal proposal was submitted to OFI which funded that project and the Haitians involved provided the design of the cistern and the labor to build it. The project was completed before the rainy season. It will serve 30 families in the surrounding area, resulted to a clean environment. Organization like OFI is the fuel that drives us to reach the neediest. We thank them. |
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AGENCY FOR INERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
MISSION TO HAITI
USAID / HAITI
Department of State
Washington, D.C 20521-3400
To Whom It May Concern:
This is inform you that USAID-Haiti has had a professional relationship with Mrs. Marlene Mathurin for the past few years, through her work as the founder of Fondation pour la Survie de l’Enfant Haitian (FSEH) and Director of the “Chambre de l’Enfance Necessiteuse Haitienne” (CENH) since, 1996. From March 1998 to September 30, 2001, CENH successfully implemented USAID’s at-risk youth program on behalf of orphan and at-risk children in Haiti, through a subcontract with our contractor Adventist Development and Relief Agency Haiti (ADRA /H)
Despite the ending of this latest subcontract, we understand that Mrs. Mathurin has remained involved in trying to establish a sustainable structure for the program.
With her dedication, we wish her the best in her continue efforts to advocate on behalf of orphaned and at-risk children in Haiti.
Port-au-Prince, November 16, 2001
Marion Warren
Education Officer
UNITED METHODIST COMMITTEE ON RELIEF
Lynx Air Intl, Box 407139
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33340
To Whom It May Concern:
As a long-standing partner of Fondation pour la Survie de l’Enfant Haitien (FSEH). UMCOR is pleased to write this letter of recommendation.
Our partnership with FSEH has been mutually beneficial. We have supported several FSEH’s projects with several donors since 1997.
The staffs at FSEH and the group of volunteers are commendable in reliability and professional ability. UMCOR has had success in implementing programs through FSEH. We have them agreeable and responsible in all project areas, to name a few; the “Block Making Project”.
I do not hesitate to recommend FSEH as a worthy organization to receive funds or implement programs.
Sincerely,
Janet Bauman
Head of Mission
UMCOR Haiti
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