Program areas at Love A Child
Community medical: the medical programs include our primary regional medical clinic; conducting occasional remote medical clinics; operating A malnutrition center and A birthing center. All clinics collectively served more than 28,000 patients during 2023. Diagnostic lab services provided in conjunction with the university of Florida's emerging pathologies institue to detect strains of tuberculosis and other diseases as A part of A country-wide detection, prevention, and education effort.
Children's development: orphange: lac continued to operate A 21,500 square foot orphanage housing 86 children in fond parisien, haiti. Education: 1,593 children received education in our 4 schools.
Love A Child (lac) conducted humanitarian outreaches in the areas of disaster and hunger relief and health care, including children's development outreach, community medical outreach, food distribution to the hungry, and development of sustainability programs in haiti and the dominican republic. Food distribution: lac conducted community food distribution programs where we cooked hot meals for villages and distributed more than 7 million fortified rice meal packages in bulk.
Community development: sustainability: in our "development for sustainability" outreach, lac operated A marketplace, butcher shop, tilapia farm, chicken farm, agriculture training center, and demonstration gardens. Lac conducted sustainable agriculture training courses, with A focus on sustainable agriculture. Lac also emphasized job creation by helping set up small businesses.