UNICEF has been a development partner in Haiti for over 60 years. With expertise in education, child protection, nutrition, health and water sanitation and hygiene, UNICEF and partners have coordinated a large-scale emergency response for children and families. We will continue to develop and strengthen systems that protect the rights of children.
Your crucial support has [...]
I’d been in Haiti after the earthquake in July 2010 and it took me a long time to try to come to terms with what I’d seen. To witness people desperately trying to survive – enduring anywhere they could find a scrap of land to live on. Back then, six months on from the earthquake, [...]
A UNICEF-supported clinic provides care and treatment for women with HIV in Haiti. Report by Thomas Nybo
Life has become complicated for 16-year-old Clodine (not her real name). Six months pregnant and HIV-positive, she lives in a dirt-floor tent with her aunt in a camp for displaced people. A few months ago, she left [...]
UNICEF Ireland Ambassador Rory McIlroy is currently in Haiti on his first ever field visit with UNICEF Ireland. Since becoming an Ambassador for the international children’s organisation, Rory has been very keen to make a field visit. This week Rory has had the chance to see for himself what the lives of children in Haiti [...]
Gallianne Palayret is a Child Protection Specialist with UNICEF Haiti whose work focuses on protecting children against child trafficking between Haiti and the Dominican Republic. This past January, she visited two official and several unofficial crossings on the Haitian border to assess the protective environment for children. Field report by Gallianne Palayret
PORT-AU-Prince, Haiti, 16 February [...]
Two years ago, when Winston was 12, his mother remarried. His stepfather didn’t want to look after him, and Winston was left out on the street. It is not an uncommon story in Haiti. UNICEF’s Gabi Menezes reports on efforts to protect Haitian children from trafficking and exploitation at the border with the Dominican Republic.
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UNICEF has been a development partner in Haiti for over 60 years. With expertise in education, child protection, nutrition, health and water sanitation and hygiene, UNICEF has led the large-scale emergency response for children and families.
Your crucial support has helped drive some extraordinary successes for children over the past year, as detailed below.
EDUCATION
720,000 children were [...]
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, 17 January 2011 – It’s hard to overstate the life-saving role that nutritional supplements can play in bringing acutely malnourished children back from the brink in Haiti and around the globe. Report by Benjamin Steinlechner
VIDEO: UNICEF’s Gabrielle Menezes reports on efforts to deliver nutritional supplements to earthquake-affected Haitian children suffering [...]
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