• -73.751278 18.194228

  Les Cayes

• -72.86155 18.434558

  Petit Gôave

• -73.925214 18.095627

  Port Salut

• -73.887827 18.20303

  Chantal

• -73.916495 18.115765

  Arniquet

• -73.811574 18.165613

  Torbeck

• -73.867464 18.325082

  Camp Perrin

• -72.770355 18.429998

  Grand Gôave

What Tdh can do in haiti with

• CHF 25.-: Provide one child with a stay in a nutritional care unit
• CHF 100.-: Give a one-day training session on child nutrition to 10 people

The situation of the children

• 45,000 children under five years die each year
• 26% of births are attended by a trained person

Delegate: Sergio Trevisan
Expatriate staff: 15
National staff: 220
Budget: 6'546'746 CHF

In collaboration with: UNICEF, Médecins Sans Frontières, Médecins du Monde Suisse, Terre des Hommes Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg

Mother and child health

In the south, Tdh has already sensitised more than half the population to the risks of malnutrition and assisted the hospital in Les Cayes in caring for malnourished children. These projects were expanded in the region as well as in the west, the epicentre of the quake, to relieve authorities overwhelmed by the crisis and by the arrival of displaced people.

Water, hygiene and sanitation and fight against cholera

In 2011, Tdh reoriented its activities to respond to the cholera crisis. As the country had never been afflicted with this disease before, there were no mechanisms in place. Tdh assisted in the construction of two care centres, started prevention campaigns, treated the contagion areas and referred sick people to the care centres. The teams also continued their normal work: constructing latrines, improving access to drinking water, promoting hygiene and distributing hygiene kits.

Child protection

Tdh cooperates with IBESR to improve living conditions for vulnerable children, victims of neglect, violence, exploitation, those who have no access to their minimum rights and teenage mothers. Tdh also works to reunite children who were sent to live with relatives or in residential centres with their families to avoid the risk of abuse or exploitation as domestic help.

• 14,000 malnourished children were identified and treated
• 100,000 people were informed of the risks of cholera
• Access to water and hygiene was improved for 3,350 people
• 831 children received protective measures
• 61 residential centres were evaluated by Tdh and IBESR
• 2,295 displaced children were documented, and 388 of them were reunited with their families
• 1,866 children participated regularly in psychosocial activities and 146 volunteer counsellors were trained
• 300 parents and teenage mothers participated in parental education sessions

In this country we deal with the following themes

• Health and nutrition
• Humanitarian crises