LOVE A CHILD INC

We address the chronic poverty in rural Haiti by meeting physical and spiritual needs of the poor in Haiti and beyond, while seeking to empower those families to help themselves through sustainable development.

Love A Child envisions a Haiti where children and families facing extreme poverty can reliably access nutritious meals, education, and healthcare to improve their living conditions and work towards self-sustainability.

Love A Child provides humanitarian assistance in times of crisis for Haitians living in extreme poverty. Sourcing supplies received (of nutritious food, medicine, health, and building supplies) from all segments of the supply chain, our team then delivers the items to an established network of 90+ community agencies serving vulnerable populations in Haiti.

Our aim:

Education Programs: Serve approximately 8,000 children each day at all our 22 Love A Child Schools with education and nutrition services.

Feeding Programs: Deliver approximately 25 million meals through our Food Distribution Program, a program that stabilizes and benefits thousands of families.

Medical Programs: Through our Regional Medical Clinic and Mobile Medical Clinics in the mountains of Haiti, serve approximately 50,000 of the country’s most disadvantaged people.

Sustainability: Implement approximately six programs providing employment for no less than 2,400 Haitians through sustainability programs.

Love A Child provides gainful employment to 240+ school teachers throughout its network of 22 schools that are also maintained by the organization. Students receive school-uniforms, school supplies, and nutritious meals thanks to the strong global support received through donors.

Love A Child collaborates with a network of 93+ partner groups across the country of Haiti, consisting of orphanages and other ministry organizations that provide services to the most vulnerable populations. Through consistent donations and a centralized distribution process, we can distribute millions of meals with efficiency.

With the assistance of volunteer doctors and nurses, Love A Child regularly conducts remote mobile clinics in isolated areas of Haiti where there is no doctor, nurse, or local clinic. These "mobile medical clinics" have been established to treat such things as typhoid, malaria, worms, respiratory illnesses, charcoal burns, and many other life-threatening illnesses. Children with severe malnutrition or children in need of surgery are brought to our LAC Jesus Healing Center Clinic in Fond Parisien, Haiti for additional care.

To increase capacity, Love A Child is constructing a new, larger Regional Medical Clinic, that will be two and a half times the size of our current clinic and operate 24/7 to meet the increasing need for compassionate health care for the poor.

After the 2010 earthquake, LAC established a sustainability and development outreach model to help break the cycle of poverty of most Haitians. The model relies upon eight, interdependent elements working together, such as:

1) Grand Miracle Marketplace for more than 600 new businesses, providing more than 2400 jobs.
2) A regional Agriculture Training Center (ATC) to demonstrate and teach best sustainable farming practices for that area of Haiti.
3) Introducing Appropriate Technologies, small-scale technologies appropriate for use in developing countries, to provide immediate improvements to living conditions.
4) Established a chicken Co-Op providing job training and meat for the community.
5) Established an edible plant nursery to increase food security from new plant varieties, teaching plant propagation and maximizing nutrition from edible plants.
6) A reforestation program using various trees and plants, including bamboos and vetiver grass to reclaim and improve the soil and control erosion.
7) Provide Life Skills Mentoring to teach and equip Haitians to have successful businesses, not just job skills.
8) Introduce basic financial services and training to facilitate developing a local economy.

Love A Child is structured to achieve our mission and vision with maximum impact and efficacy. The 30,000 square foot Food Distribution Center in Fond Parisien, Haiti houses and distributes food, health supplies, medicines, disaster relief supplies, and building provisions.

Through 80+ freight shipments annually from our Worldwide Missions Headquarters Office in Fort Myers, FL, Love A Child can sustain the established programs and continue to see growth in the numbers of children being reached every day.

Love A Child has staff in the United States and in Haiti to support partnership initiatives, food distribution, medical care outreach, sustainability, and development initiatives. We also collaborate with agronomists, aquaculture experts, the World Poultry Foundation, entrepreneurs, researchers, and companies across the globe to strengthen and improve our sustainability outreach initiatives.

Love A Child (LAC) was incorporated in 1985 by missionaries Bobby and Sherry Burnette. With a focus to improve living conditions, particularly for children throughout Haiti, Love A Child provides aid during humanitarian disasters, distributes food, delivers medical care, and builds schools and churches. In addition, the organization operates a 21,500-square foot orphanage (home for more than 80 children), assists in developing industry through a marketplace, and educates Haitians about sustainable life improvements.

During the aftermath of the major earthquake in Haiti on January 12, 2010, and in partnership with the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI), Love A Child provided the land and resources for the largest field hospital operation available. The care for earthquake victims included treatment of infections, amputations, skin grafts, physical therapy, meals, prayer sessions, hygiene kits, and day-to-day living supplies. More than 2,000 patients were treated. Once the patients were treated, more than 2,500 earthquake evacuees and amputees were also provided the opportunity to move into 500 newly built homes.

Most recently, when Hurricane Matthew made landfall over the southwestern area of Haiti on October 4, 2016, Love A Child responded with supplies, including medicine, food, water, and blankets, as well as medical care.

The ministry extends internationally through the televised broadcast of Love A Child featured on television networks such as Christian Television Network (CTN) and Daystar. Furthermore, the organization broadcasts a Christian radio program in both Creole and English through CTN.

Last year, Love A Child delivered more than 25 million meals through our Food Distribution Program, a program that benefits thousands of families in some of the most remote mountain villages where people regularly die from starvation.

Our work includes rebuilding villages on the way to rebuilding lives. Love A Child is undertaking new and expanded programs in the areas of housing, medical care, as well as sustainable agricultural training for nearby villagers.

In 2020, we began the construction of a new Jesus Healing Center in Fond Parisien, Haiti, which provides Haiti’s poor with access to quality medical care at no cost.

In addition, Love A Child began construction of our new Malnutrition Center to broaden access to healthcare for children with malnutrition in Haiti.