Tag Archives | haiti

Karate teacher strikes back against HIV/AIDS

By on January 11, 2012 in Sponsor Impact

This story comes from FH staff member Renee Targos. Through Food for the Hungry’s HIV/AIDS program in Haiti, people are winning the fight. Jure Gaston lives in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Once a physically strong man working as a karate teacher, Jure became so ill he was unable to stand. He didn’t understand what was happening to his [...]

Read full story • Comments { 0 }

BACK TO HAITI — Pushing back AIDS in the midst of an emergency

By on December 21, 2011 in Disaster Relief, Sponsor Impact

As the second anniversary of Haiti’s massive earthquake approaches (Jan. 12), we’re taking a look at the work God accomplished through Food for the Hungry in the past year. This time last year, we reported how the earthquake made way for more HIV infections in Haiti because attention to HIV prevention and care was diverted [...]

Read full story • Comments { 0 }

BACK TO HAITI — How to protect vulnerable girls from slavery

By on December 15, 2011 in Sponsor Impact

As the second anniversary of Haiti’s massive earthquake approaches (Jan. 12), we’re taking a look at the work God accomplished through Food for the Hungry in the past year. Only since 1982 have Haitian women been considered equal to their husbands in legal status (not subject to their husbands as minors) and allowed to own [...]

Read full story • Comments { 0 }

BACK TO HAITI — Victories in clean water, health and hygiene

By on December 9, 2011 in Sponsor Impact

As the second anniversary of Haiti’s massive earthquake approaches (Jan. 12), we’re taking a look at the work God accomplished through Food for the Hungry in the past year. If you’ve been around FH for a while, you know we don’t give a lot of handouts because they’re simply not that helpful in the long [...]

Read full story • Comments { 0 }

BACK TO HAITI — What if your child’s education cost 20-70% of your annual income? Would you still send him to school — could you?

By on December 7, 2011 in Sponsor Impact

As the second anniversary of Haiti’s massive earthquake approaches (Jan. 12), we’re taking a look at the work God accomplished through Food for the Hungry in the past year. I’m no math whiz. Trust me. But it’s not too hard to figure out why so many Haitian children go uneducated when school costs $75-250 a year, and [...]

Read full story • Comments { 0 }

WORLD AIDS DAY–More people than ever are living with HIV. Why is this GOOD news??

By on December 1, 2011 in Sponsor Impact

Today is World AIDS Day – a day when the global community takes a hard look at the AIDS pandemic and our progress in defeating it. The United Nations said 2011 was a “game changing year” for the AIDS response (source). The good news is that fewer people are dying from HIV than ever before, meaning more [...]

Read full story • Comments { 0 }

Striving to help mothers give birth to an HIV-free generation

By on September 2, 2011 in Sponsor Impact

“I think this is one of the best things we could ever do for HIV; it’s one of the most successful prevention methods,” says FH’s HIV/AIDS programs coordinator, Kim Buttonow, MPH. “You can have an HIV-free generation.” By expanding the prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT), children of HIV-positive mothers actually could choose whether to protect [...]

Read full story • Comments { 0 }

Seven ways women and girls are especially vulnerable during emergencies

By on August 10, 2011 in Disaster Relief, Sponsor Impact

I always sort of had an idea that women and girls living in extreme poverty suffered a bit more than men from disasters like war, a flood, an earthquake or a drought — it just seems logical, if you think about it. But I had no idea how much more acutely they feel pain from [...]

Read full story • Comments { 0 }

A proven way to slow the progression of HIV to AIDS

By on March 2, 2011 in Sponsor Impact

March 8 is the 100-year anniversary of International Women’s Day – a day to celebrate the accomplishments of women and reaffirm our commitment to gender equality. This week, Poverty 180 focuses on women in relation to education, clean water, HIV/AIDS and gender-based injustice. Living with HIV/AIDS — From thoughts of suicide to hope for the future Leriange Gelin started planning her suicide [...]

Read full story • Comments { 0 }

Mom Keeps Family Healthy During Cholera Outbreak

By on January 11, 2011 in Sponsor Impact

In October 2010, a cholera epidemic spread through Haiti killing 3,300 and infecting more than 30,000 people. The island’s capital of Port-au-Prince, devastated by a magnitude 7.1 earthquake 10 months earlier, still lay in ruins with broken sewage lines, water pipes, buildings and roads. Having no prior exposure to cholera, Haitians feared the disease.  People [...]

Read full story • Comments { 0 }