International Needs Canada

Published purpose

This project aims to reduce death and illness among mothers, newborns and children under the age of five in the surrounding communities of Grand Rivière du Nord and Bahon, in northern Haiti. The project is designed to: (i) improve the ability of health care systems, including community-based health systems, to deliver quality health care that meets the needs of people; (ii) prevent and treat malnutrition among children and mothers; and (iii) improve access to basic primary health care services to reduce the number of women and children dying of common diseases such as malaria and HIV/AIDS. Some project activities include: providing approximately 20 mobile clinics; training approximately 30 community health care workers and community groups; conducting vaccination and de-worming campaigns for children; purchasing equipment and medicine for community health care facilities; training traditional birth attendants; and constructing latrines. Approximately 12,000 families are expected to benefit from this project including over 1,600 pregnant and lactating women. International Needs Canada is working with International Child Care Haiti to implement this project. This project is part of Canada's Maternal, Newborn and Child Health commitment. The maximum contribution allocated to this project includes $10,000 for monitoring purposes.