MEDICINES FOR HUMANITY

Project Overview: Based on the success achieved in improving maternal and child health in the batey communities by providing mobile healthcare services and training community health workers (CHWs), MFH was asked to help establish a model training program for CHWs in collaboration with two religious communities and the Ministry of Health. The project was such a success after its first year, the Ministry of Health considered "taking it national.”

Service Area Population: Approximately 16,770

Project Partner: The Grey Sisters, the Daughters of Charity and the Ministry of Health

From their founding in 1926, the Grey Sisters of the Immaculate Conception followed in the tradition of St. Marguerite d’Youville in responding to the changing needs of the world in which they live. Grey Sisters’ ministries have been as varied as their geographic locations – education, health care, care of seniors, pastoral care, prison ministry, music education, work with a focus on social and ecological justice. The Daughters of Charity serve the poor and marginalized in many different types of ministry such as healthcare, social services, teaching, counseling, prisons, and many other ministries. They have a deep passion for changing the world one person at a time. In the U.S. the Daughters founded what has become the largest non-profit health system in the country. They are an international community of over 19,000 women in more than 90 countries.

Project Overview: Prior to the mobile clinic run by the Daughters of Charity, almost none of the Haitians living in the batey communities had access to basic healthcare. With the collaboration and support of MFH, the mobile clinic now visits each batey twice a month, there are trained community health workers in each batey, and no child has died from malnutrition in the last year on any of the bateyes.

Additionally, MFH and the Daughters of Charity have worked to implement a WASH (Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene) health program to bolster our efforts to reduce child mortality in 42 batey communities of Quisqueya. Through education and improvements to infrastructure, the program aims to build the capacity of these communities to combat poor water quality, and promote sanitation and hygiene.

Service Area Population: Approximately 8,600 live on the Quisqueya bateyes.

Project Partner: The Daughters of Charity
The Daughters of Charity serve the poor and marginalized in many different types of ministry such as healthcare, social services, teaching, counseling, prisons, and many other ministries. They have a deep passion for changing the world one person at a time. In the U.S. the Daughters founded what has become the largest non-profit health system in the country. They are an international community of over 19,000 women in more than 90 countries.

Project Overview: The Daughters of Charity have established an effective maternal and child health clinic in this dangerous and daunting part of Port-Au-Prince. MFH is assisting the Daughters in increasing the number of children who are able to receive healthcare, essential medicines, and nutrition services. MFH is also helping to expand service to HIV positive pregnant women.

Service Area Population: Over 600,000

Project Partner: The Daughters of Charity
The Daughters of Charity serve the poor and marginalized in many different types of ministry such as healthcare, social services, teaching, counseling, prisons, and many other ministries. They have a deep passion for changing the world one person at a time. In the U.S. the Daughters founded what has become the largest non-profit health system in the country. They are an international community of over 19,000 women in more than 90 countries.

Project Overview: The Daughters of Charity have established an effective maternal and child health clinic in the impoverished area of Sibert in Port-Au-Prince. MFH is assisting the Daughters to increase the number of children who are able to receive healthcare, essential medicines, and nutrition services. MFH is also helping to expand health services available to pregnant women through the work of community health workers.

Service Area Population: Approximately 41,450

Project Partner: The Daughters of Charity
The Daughters of Charity serve the poor and marginalized in many different types of ministry such as healthcare, social services, teaching, counseling, prisons, and many other ministries. They have a deep passion for changing the world one person at a time. In the U.S. the Daughters founded what has become the largest non-profit health system in the country. They are an international community of over 19,000 women in more than 90 countries.

Project Overview: MFH is working with the staff of the Nyumbani orphanage in Nairobi to identify HIV positive orphans in several slum areas around Nairobi and make sure that they get the medicines and healthcare they need. This effort is part of a community-based project called "Lea Toto.” To keep these orphans living in the community, the project also offers support to family member "caregivers.”

Service Area Population: Approximately 4,000 orphans

Project Partner: Nyumbani Orphanage/The Jesuit Fathers
Nyumbani Orphanage was founded by Jesuit father, Angelo D’Agostino in 1992 in response to the devastation caused by HIV AIDS in Kenya. This facility serves HIV positive orphans, and has grown to include a laboratory, a village for HIV+ orphans, and a community-based program named "Lea Toto.”

Strengthening the capacity of the Little Sisters of St. Therese and congregations of women religious to implement traditional birth attendant training programs, IMCI, and nutrition programs at their health clinics.

Developing and strengthening clinic and community-based services with the Mother of Mercy Hospital in the Nuba Mountain region of South Kordofan.

Building the capacity of Catholic sisters and diocesan health staff in Beau, Bamenda, Kumbo, and Mamfe to provide efficient and effective clinic and community-based services to vulnerable women and children.

Increasing access to clean water among impoverished and vulnerable households in the Diocese of Batouri in East Cameroon.