NUTRITION/FEEDING THE HUNGRY

HEALTH: THE CYCLE OF POVERTY

Being hungry means more than just missing a meal. It’s a debilitating crisis that has nearly 4 million people in its grip. Hunger is a perilous cycle that passes from one generation to the next: Families who struggle with chronic hunger and malnutrition consistently go without the nutrients their minds and bodies need, which then prevents them from being able to perform their best at work, school, or to improve their lives.

Every day too many men and women in Haiti struggle to feed their children a nutritious meal. Eradicating hunger and malnutrition is one of the great challenges of our time.

Hunger is a perilous cycle: Families who struggle with chronic hunger prevents them from being able to work, go to school, or improve their lives. Every day, we provide nutritious food to those in urgent need across crisis & conflict hit areas. Meanwhile our complementary programs address the root causes of hunger, building the resilience of communities, empowering them with the tools to lift themselves out of poverty, distributing food aid to victims of disaster, violence and famine, providing communities with the education they need to feed themselves over the long-term.

Our Comprehensive Food Program Involves:

Food parcels & Nutritious Meals.
Irrigating our farmland.
Food programs to fight malnutrition.
Installing Water Wells & Hand Pumps in the communities where in we work..
Providing communities with education and training on sustainable farming.
Providing families with farming tools and seeds to sustain their livelihoods.

We deliver your donations to the neediest and feeding the hungry. Your generous donations have been enabling us to provide critical food packages to the most needy and vulnerable.

With your generous support we have been able to provide nutritious meals to thousands of poor vulnerable children, women, families and communities in Haiti.

We need at least US$15,000 each month to send to Feed My Starving Children to ship a 40ft container of rice food, Mama Pack, A container cannot meet the needs of the communities in which we work. We would like to be able to find money to transport at least one container each month.

Please, get involved by supporting us financially so that we can receive food for thousands of children affected by famine in Haiti.

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Hunger And Livelihoods

Being hungry means more than just missing a meal. It’s a debilitating crisis that has nearly 4 million Haitians in its grip.
Every day too many men and women in Haiti struggle to feed their children a nutritious meal. Eradicating hunger and malnutrition is one of the great challenges of our time.

Hunger is tightening its grip on vulnerable Haitians in a deepening humanitarian crisis. The complex emergency situation across the country – which has one of the highest levels of food insecurity in the world – has been compounded by insecurity, violence, deepening economic woes and a cholera outbreak.

Worrying trends shows a steady deterioration of the food security situation, with the number of hungry people tripling since 2016. Latest reports indicate a steady increase in the number of people requiring urgent humanitarian assistance in Haiti, with 4.9 million acutely hungry. This is an increase of 200,000 people compared to the previous analysis. Notably, close to 1.8 million remain in Emergency phase and need urgent assistance.

The security situation has worsened all over the country throughout the past year, especially after the country lockdown.

Humanitarian Needs.

We are ensuring families have access to clean water, receive food and hygiene kits, and provide trauma counselling and awareness campaigns.

Whether it’s a natural disaster or a humanitarian one, we are on the ground to meet immediate needs. And when the time is right, we shift our focus to long-term recovery. When people are forced to flee from their homes, we work hard to make sure they have safe and dignified lives.

The road to recovery and safety may be a long one, but no one should walk it alone. We also maintain a presence through the immediate response and recovery phases following an emergency. Our process begins, when possible, before the disaster hits by assisting with preparation activities.

The DAMABIAH Foundation and its partners including local staff in Haiti are always ready to respond to urgent situations with speed and efficiency thanks to our generous donors. We also maintain the highest standards of best practices, dignity, and cultural sensitivity, and we make sure that our response aligns with survivors’ needs immediately, for the longer-term, or both!

We are ensuring families have access to clean water, receive food and hygiene kits, and provide trauma counselling and awareness campaigns.The Foundation has always worked collaboratively with our public health officials, community leaders, and other organizations in the community to secure the continuum of care and other services following disasters. For example, following Hurricane Matthew in 2016 and the August 2021 Earthquake, the DAMABIAH Foundation immediately coordinated with the local hospital the delivery of very much needed emergency services with medicines, medical supplies, medical personnel assistance, fuel for the generators and, often some support with construction.

At the DAMABIAH Foundation, we take the commitment and support of our donors to our work very seriously. It is through your generous support and donations that we are able to make a difference in the lives of so many children, women, families and communities in Haiti.

You can join us in improving the health and well-being of women, children, and families through our health care, education, agriculture, and community development programs with a one-time ongoing donation.

Your donation can deliver tools and temporary shelters when survivors need them most.\

Thank you!

Emergency Feeding Programs Partners. Food. Hope in Haiti. Jesus said: “Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.” – Matthew 22:39

The goal of our hunger relief feeding program in Haiti is to provide nutrient-rich food to prevent illnesses, rehabilitate children from malnutrition, and offer hope in the name of Jesus Christ.

Children in our schools receive a hot meal every day; that’s food for more than 2,800 children daily! For many of our students, it’s the only meal they will eat that day. Beyond filling their bellies, these nutritious meals fuel their developing minds and bodies giving them a chance of reaching their full potential. Humanitarian needs

Humanitarian needs are rising sharply in Haiti. Please donate today and help life-saving food reach those families who need it the most.

Sustainable Agriculture

At the DAMABIAH Foundation we contribute to long-term reconstruction in Haiti.

The DAMABIAH Foundation first helped members of peasant groups to obtain food and basic necessities for their families after the earthquake. Today, the DAMABIAH Foundation works with local organizations to create community businesses, provide technical training and promote the long-term development of Haiti.

Rural Haitian farmers face major challenges that have been exacerbated since the January 2010 earthquake and recent long droughts.

These issues are environmental (erosion, drought, climate change); economic (12.5% inflation, 60% unemployment), political instability (loss of functioning institutions). 20 years of field experience has proven that with the right support, training and education, the rural farmer has been able to make an effort in extreme conditions and needs help.

Provide community organizations in Haiti with the tools and resources they need to make identified priorities a reality. This means strengthening local food production efforts through sustainable agriculture, providing access to affordable credit through locally managed community credit funds, and creating income-generating opportunities like goat-rearing projects. Strengthen their capacities through education, training and strengthening local advocacy to improve the response to their needs.

These efforts will build a strong foundation in Haiti for self-sufficiency and improved livelihoods. As communities come together to realize their strength, they become stewards of their own futures, innovators and champions of a stronger Haiti. The earthquake happened in Haiti thirteen years ago, but there were no major reconstruction works.

An essential part of building a stronger Haiti requires strengthening rural communities. Our partnership approach is proven by 20 years of experience. Support our farmers!

The DAMABIAH Foundation Helps Families Grow Their Own Food In Rural Areas Of Haiti

Help the DAMABIAH Foundation develop sustainable agriculture projects to help farmers in rural communities feed their families and increase their income.

Building the capacity of rural communities to produce food is essential to long- term development in Haiti. Food imports such as rice continue to flood the country, making food costs high and quality lower. Strengthening local food production not only provides a means of income for rural farmers, but increases food security for the whole country.

Sustainable agriculture projects strengthen food production by training rural farmers in organic farming methods that increase crop productivity, restore and protect Haiti’s environment, and increase crop yields. In addition to training, additional resources are imperative. Community credit funds that provide farmers with low-interest loans and grain mills are helping to boost food production in Haiti.

Increasing Haiti’s capacity for local food production will not only improve food security, but also create a vibrant local food economy that will employ farmers and traders across the island.

Bill Clinton’s Trade Policies Destroyed Haitian Rice Farming.

In 2010, former President Bill Clinton publicly apologized for forcing Haiti to drop tariffs on imported subsidized U.S. rice during his time in office. It wiped out rice farming, seriously damaging Haiti’s ability to be self-sufficient.

Since 1981, the United States has followed a policy, until the last year or so when we started rethinking it, that we rich countries that produce a lot of food should sell it to poor countries and relieve them of the burden of producing their own food, so, thank goodness, they can leap directly into the industrial era. It has not worked. It may have been good for some of my farmers in Arkansas, but it has not worked. It was a mistake. It was a mistake that I was a party to. I am not pointing the finger at anybody. I did that. I have to live every day with the consequences of the lost capacity to produce a rice crop in Haiti to feed those people, because of what I did. Nobody else.

This is the president apologizing at a hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. At the time, he was the U.N. special envoy to Haiti.

Thirteen years after Clinton’s apology, Haiti faces a food crisis 4.5 million people in Haiti do not have enough to eat. Your support makes a huge impact.

There’s no reason why Haiti should be importing rice, because it’s something that’s always—the rice grown in Haiti is much healthier. Ever since this rice has been coming in, there have been diabetes epidemics. People didn’t used to have that much diabetes. This is the worst thing that could have happened to Haiti.

Despite the violence in Haiti, we are helping farmers to grow our own organic rice in the Artibonite department. We support them with the little money we have received from our donors abroad.

In Haiti, more and more mothers and fathers no longer have the means to provide adequate care and nutrition to their children, and parents cannot take them to health centers due to the terrible increase in violence by armed groups.

Nearly one in four children in the country are also chronically malnourished, with long-term physical and cognitive consequences, the statement said.

Breaking Cycles Of Poverty

In Haiti, the impact of extreme poverty on children’s development is devastating.

DAMABIAH Foundation is striving to reduce the cycle of poverty. This will enable the most vulnerable children to reach their full potential and enjoy life in its fullness.

We’re aiming to reach the most vulnerable children and their families being affected by hunger with food, livelihoods, and protection. We focus our impact on areas with pre-existing vulnerability and fragility, where children are most at risk: places affected by conflict, urban slums, and refugee settlements.

The DAMABIAH Foundation knows that children are more likely to be safe, educated and healthy when their families have secure livelihoods and they themselves are capable to transition to safe and decent work as they grow up.

Our sustainable livelihoods programs focus on breaking the intergenerational cycle of poverty by developing and maintaining families’ income and food supply, and by economically empowering young people with the skills and opportunities to succeed in work and life.

Food security and livelihoods: We empower women to secure and control basic assets and income so they can afford to pay for their own and their families’ basic necessities, and can access sufficient, nutritious food all year round, even in the face of shocks like rising food prices or emergencies.

Adolescent & youth economic empowerment: We work with young people to build their skills and assets, and connect them to market opportunities and services.

We connect young people, their families, communities, markets and governments to create equitable, inclusive and safe work opportunities, where young people have the power, agency and voice to make economic decisions for themselves and lead the change they want to see.