After the January 2010 earthquake in Haiti, which killed over 200,000 and displaced over 1 million people, KidCare International began a full-scale response that continues today.
With over 10 years of partnering in Haiti, KidCare International launched a large-scale relief program and has actively participated in the relief efforts since the earthquake. While our relief efforts continue at full pace, providing food and care for children, we are transitioning from emergency relief to rebuilding and long-term projects.
KidCare International continues to assist thousands of children still living in the tented encampments in Port-au-Prince and the Central Plateau. After distributing more than 70,000 pounds of food, bringing medical emergency teams to care for the sick and injured, and providing tarps and tents in the early months of the response, we are gearing up to establish sustainable sources of food and jump start projects for early recovery.
Daunting challenges continue to face the suffering in Haiti. Aside from basic needs of food, housing, and medical care - there is a critical need for laying a new foundation for stability and economic growth. While this road to lasting recovery may take many years, we know it will take more than money to move Haiti down this road. Our role is to come along side and support Haiti during these next years - to actively participate in meetings with national government and other organizations and make a plan to rebuild Haiti - the right way.
KidCare International:
Sent, met, and distributed a 40-ft ocean-freight container of food and emergency relief supplies through Dominican Republic border to the Central Plateau region.
Provided food assistance to displaced persons living outside Port-au-Prince, in the Central Plateau region.
Sent medical teams to treat the sick and injured in Port-au-Prince.
Delivered 1000 pounds of medicine.
Partnered with the US Navy to deliver 14 crates of medical supplies.
Distributed tents, tarps, and blankets to displaced people in Port-au-Prince.
Airlifted and distributed 5 thousand pounds of emergency food to hardest hit regions.
Sent a 40 foot ocean-freight container of red beans to feed school children.
Partnered with the World Food Program. Received grants of food for emergency relief and summer school program from the WFP.
Fed over 10,500 meals to school children in the Central Plateau Region.
Medical team taught HIV/AIDS prevention and self-esteem program to 650 girls and young women in Port-au-Prince.
Attended Kick Start for Early Recovery, UNICEF, Agriculture, Food Cluster, and Nutrition meetings at the UN log base in Port-au-Prince.
Partnering to develop an Aqua-Ponics fish and garden system for a sustainable source of food.
Partnering to develop a replicable Village Garden Project for villages in the Central Plateau region.
KCI has years of experience overcoming the many obstacles facing relief organizations in channeling aid to areas devastated by natural disasters. Those obstacles can be significant - severely damaged communication lines and transportation venues, police or military in disarray, a lack of orderly distribution points and, of course, the desperation and frustration of victims dealing with injuries and the loss of loved ones.
By quick action, careful planning and coordination with multiple partners and agencies, KCI continues to work in Haiti during this time of recovery to deliver - quite literally - on the promises: that humanitarian aid will quickly reach those who need it the most.
KIDCARE INTERNATIONAL
KidCare International is a humanitarian relief and mission's organization founded by our pastor, Larry Kapchinsky. KidCare provides food and clothing to disadvantaged children and their families around the world. In addition to its humanitarian efforts, KidCare is actively involved in planting churches in Russia and supports pastors and their efforts to serve the poor in Africa, India, Haiti, Mexico, Romania, and Albania. KidCare ships ocean freight containers filled with relief goods, and believes in taking the "hands on" approach to insure that the needy families are benefited. Teams regularly travel to Russia and Africa and representatives have been sent to Yugoslavia and Kosovo (during the war), as well as Colombia.
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