Plan Haiti Annual Program Report 2007

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Challenge and change in Haiti

Real progress

Haiti is the poorest country in the Americas and faces huge challenges to improve its children’s lives. Economic and social conditions have deteriorated over the past decade due to continued political turmoil, resulting in extreme poverty, high inflation and unemployment running at 70%.

With the support of Plan, children and adults in Haiti are working together to develop their communities and claim their right to a better future. And real progress is being made.

Last year, our work included:

Plan concentrates on health, water and sanitation, education and improving household incomes. We raise the profile of child rights so that children are protected from violence and can take part in the development of their communities. We help local organisations develop projects for children and encourage children and families to take part.

Rezene Tesfamariam, Plan’s Country Director in Haiti, says: “Children and young people are challenging us to achieve our goals and we would like to thank all who are supporting us to meet this challenge.”

In this Country Progress Report, we look at just one successful project among the many we have helped to carry out this year.

Providing clean

drinking water is a cruc

ial part of our work in

Haiti

Haiti country facts Population: 8.5 million

People without adequate sanitation: 70%

Capital: Port-au-Prince UN Human Development Index ranking: 154th (of 177 countries)

Primary-age children in school: 55%

• Training 100 media personalities on violence towards children and on how to raise public awareness of children’s rights

• Setting up three savings and loans

nursing, accounting, carpentry, and plumbing

• Improving standards of education by building 22 classrooms, equipping 224 classrooms, and training 740 teachers.

Plan’s greatest successes come from a joint effort combining the hard work and determination of communities, children, volunteers, staff, and partner organisations. The ongoing support of our sponsors is a vital ingredient, too. It’s their generosity and commitment that allows us to continue to help children in 49 of the poorest countries in the world.

So on behalf of the children and communities we work with, thank you to all our sponsors!

Plan UK Registered Charity No: 276035

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Haiti

• Providing vocational training for 178 young people, in areas including

(Sources: the UN, the Foreign & Commonwealth Office)

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Small busin ess owners are benefiting fro and loans pro m our savings jects

centres and providing business skills training: 91% of participants have increased their incomes and started to save

Life expectancy at birth: 52 years

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148.5mm FRONT

Country Progress Report 2007

146.5mm FLAP

148.5mm BACK

Challenge and change in Haiti

Real progress

Haiti is the poorest country in the Americas and faces huge challenges to improve its children’s lives. Economic and social conditions have deteriorated over the past decade due to continued political turmoil, resulting in extreme poverty, high inflation and unemployment running at 70%.

With the support of Plan, children and adults in Haiti are working together to develop their communities and claim their right to a better future. And real progress is being made.

Last year, our work included:

Plan concentrates on health, water and sanitation, education and improving household incomes. We raise the profile of child rights so that children are protected from violence and can take part in the development of their communities. We help local organisations develop projects for children and encourage children and families to take part.

Rezene Tesfamariam, Plan’s Country Director in Haiti, says: “Children and young people are challenging us to achieve our goals and we would like to thank all who are supporting us to meet this challenge.”

In this Country Progress Report, we look at just one successful project among the many we have helped to carry out this year.

Providing clean

drinking water is a cruc

ial part of our work in

Haiti

Haiti country facts Population: 8.5 million

People without adequate sanitation: 70%

Capital: Port-au-Prince UN Human Development Index ranking: 154th (of 177 countries)

Primary-age children in school: 55%

• Training 100 media personalities on violence towards children and on how to raise public awareness of children’s rights

• Setting up three savings and loans

nursing, accounting, carpentry, and plumbing

• Improving standards of education by building 22 classrooms, equipping 224 classrooms, and training 740 teachers.

Plan’s greatest successes come from a joint effort combining the hard work and determination of communities, children, volunteers, staff, and partner organisations. The ongoing support of our sponsors is a vital ingredient, too. It’s their generosity and commitment that allows us to continue to help children in 49 of the poorest countries in the world.

So on behalf of the children and communities we work with, thank you to all our sponsors!

Plan UK Registered Charity No: 276035

HTI

Any enquiries please contact: Nick Burton. e: nick@bright-uk.com m: 07884 367567. d: 020 7620 8150 Size (Prod)

Colours(Prod)

Art (A/D)

Copy (C/W)

Content (Acc.)

Haiti

• Providing vocational training for 178 young people, in areas including

(Sources: the UN, the Foreign & Commonwealth Office)

0407 100647 PLAN 0407_Haiti 28.11.07 210x443.5mm FOLD TO A5 3 Client proof: 2

Small busin ess owners are benefiting fro and loans pro m our savings jects

centres and providing business skills training: 91% of participants have increased their incomes and started to save

Life expectancy at birth: 52 years

Admagic No: Bright No: Client name: File name: Date: Size: Studio proof:

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Children fight against HIV/AIDS Haiti has the highest rates of HIV/AIDS outside sub-Saharan Africa.

190,000 Haitians have the virus, 17,000 of them children. Their health is usually already poor because of poverty and limited access to basic healthcare.

HIV/AIDS makes it much harder for them to work, worsening poverty and placing a burden of care on families who may already be struggling.

To stop Haiti’s HIV problem getting worse in future, we need to work with children – the adults of tomorrow.

But only 15% of girls and 28% of boys know enough to protect themselves, and those who do have enough knowledge often fail to act on it: condom use is low among young people.

But when they’re given the tools, young people can be incredibly effective and committed in the fight against HIV/AIDS. Take the example of Pierre.

He is 15, the third child in a family of four. Pierre’s childhood was tough.

He was born in Port-au-Prince and lived there until his mother died in 2002. He and his siblings went to live with their grandmother in Marigot, a small, isolated community in Southeastern Haiti.

Pierre shares information about HIV/AIDS with a youth group at his school in Marigot

Pierre remembers what this difficult period was like: “When we arrived there, we were newcomers in a strange area and life wasn’t easy. Every day when I woke up, I asked myself what the next day would be like. I was so upset and confused. I enrolled in the sixth year at the local primary school but found it tough attending daily.”

But Pierre’s life took a new direction when Plan staff visited his school. “They showed an awareness film on HIV/AIDS and led a debate,” he remembers.

“I kept thinking about the film, wondering about HIV, how it was transmitted and how could we protect

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ourselves from it. I knew most people in my community were saying AIDS was a supernatural disease. Two weeks later, the Plan staff came back and invited students to volunteer for advanced training. I joined in.”

“Thanks to the Plan project, I summoned my strength, forgot my sorrows as an orphan, stopped complaining about my future, and improved my self-esteem as well as that of my classmates.

Confidence and enthusiasm

“I have devoted myself to the fight against HIV/AIDS and will do so through the course of my life. I strongly encourage other young people to do the same. As positive sexual behaviour promoters, we have contributed a great deal to the fight against HIV/AIDS.”

“After the training, I felt like another person and I was less troubled day by day,” says Pierre. “I wasn’t a stranger anymore. I was chatting joyfully with friends who paid more attention to what I was saying. Our group was trained how to make our classmates and friends aware of HIV/AIDS during ordinary conversations. I had a lot to say and shared my knowledge with everybody!

“After the training, I felt like another person and I was less troubled day after day.”

“I also took part in training on organising youth groups, community participation, and life skills. Now I’m in the fourth year at secondary school in Marigot and I’m fully committed to public awareness activities related to HIV/AIDS in my local area. I also share my knowledge with children and young people from other schools during events and celebrations.

Plan also promotes HIV/AIDS prevention through concerts and video presentations. We get key community members involved, working with religious leaders and health workers to reduce prejudice against those with HIV/AIDS. This work is getting results: awareness of the disease has now reached 99% in areas where Plan works. We provide care and support for people living with HIV/AIDS, particularly children and orphans.

Children are making change happen Organised groups of young people have long been significant in social and political change in Haiti, in the form of student unions at universities and secondary schools, as well as religious

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youth groups and sports clubs.

As Pierre’s story shows, youth groups can capture the energies and commitment of their members and are vital in spreading public health messages, like that of HIV/AIDS prevention.

“I have devoted myself to the fight against HIV/AIDS and will do so through the course of my life.”

Pierre campaigns on HIV/A

Plan helps young people to organise themselves so that they can make their views heard. We provide training on taking part in decision-making, and on how to work together to press for change. We support groups to build local and national networks, bringing them together to learn from each other.

IDS

Through working with children and young people, Plan can help to bring about some of the changes that are needed in Haiti, and have a positive influence on its future.

Some names have been changed for privacy and child protection reasons.

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Children fight against HIV/AIDS Haiti has the highest rates of HIV/AIDS outside sub-Saharan Africa.

190,000 Haitians have the virus, 17,000 of them children. Their health is usually already poor because of poverty and limited access to basic healthcare.

HIV/AIDS makes it much harder for them to work, worsening poverty and placing a burden of care on families who may already be struggling.

To stop Haiti’s HIV problem getting worse in future, we need to work with children – the adults of tomorrow.

But only 15% of girls and 28% of boys know enough to protect themselves, and those who do have enough knowledge often fail to act on it: condom use is low among young people.

But when they’re given the tools, young people can be incredibly effective and committed in the fight against HIV/AIDS. Take the example of Pierre.

He is 15, the third child in a family of four. Pierre’s childhood was tough.

He was born in Port-au-Prince and lived there until his mother died in 2002. He and his siblings went to live with their grandmother in Marigot, a small, isolated community in Southeastern Haiti.

Pierre shares information about HIV/AIDS with a youth group at his school in Marigot

Pierre remembers what this difficult period was like: “When we arrived there, we were newcomers in a strange area and life wasn’t easy. Every day when I woke up, I asked myself what the next day would be like. I was so upset and confused. I enrolled in the sixth year at the local primary school but found it tough attending daily.”

But Pierre’s life took a new direction when Plan staff visited his school. “They showed an awareness film on HIV/AIDS and led a debate,” he remembers.

“I kept thinking about the film, wondering about HIV, how it was transmitted and how could we protect

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ourselves from it. I knew most people in my community were saying AIDS was a supernatural disease. Two weeks later, the Plan staff came back and invited students to volunteer for advanced training. I joined in.”

“Thanks to the Plan project, I summoned my strength, forgot my sorrows as an orphan, stopped complaining about my future, and improved my self-esteem as well as that of my classmates.

Confidence and enthusiasm

“I have devoted myself to the fight against HIV/AIDS and will do so through the course of my life. I strongly encourage other young people to do the same. As positive sexual behaviour promoters, we have contributed a great deal to the fight against HIV/AIDS.”

“After the training, I felt like another person and I was less troubled day by day,” says Pierre. “I wasn’t a stranger anymore. I was chatting joyfully with friends who paid more attention to what I was saying. Our group was trained how to make our classmates and friends aware of HIV/AIDS during ordinary conversations. I had a lot to say and shared my knowledge with everybody!

“After the training, I felt like another person and I was less troubled day after day.”

“I also took part in training on organising youth groups, community participation, and life skills. Now I’m in the fourth year at secondary school in Marigot and I’m fully committed to public awareness activities related to HIV/AIDS in my local area. I also share my knowledge with children and young people from other schools during events and celebrations.

Plan also promotes HIV/AIDS prevention through concerts and video presentations. We get key community members involved, working with religious leaders and health workers to reduce prejudice against those with HIV/AIDS. This work is getting results: awareness of the disease has now reached 99% in areas where Plan works. We provide care and support for people living with HIV/AIDS, particularly children and orphans.

Children are making change happen Organised groups of young people have long been significant in social and political change in Haiti, in the form of student unions at universities and secondary schools, as well as religious

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youth groups and sports clubs.

As Pierre’s story shows, youth groups can capture the energies and commitment of their members and are vital in spreading public health messages, like that of HIV/AIDS prevention.

“I have devoted myself to the fight against HIV/AIDS and will do so through the course of my life.”

Pierre campaigns on HIV/A

Plan helps young people to organise themselves so that they can make their views heard. We provide training on taking part in decision-making, and on how to work together to press for change. We support groups to build local and national networks, bringing them together to learn from each other.

IDS

Through working with children and young people, Plan can help to bring about some of the changes that are needed in Haiti, and have a positive influence on its future.

Some names have been changed for privacy and child protection reasons.

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Children fight against HIV/AIDS Haiti has the highest rates of HIV/AIDS outside sub-Saharan Africa.

190,000 Haitians have the virus, 17,000 of them children. Their health is usually already poor because of poverty and limited access to basic healthcare.

HIV/AIDS makes it much harder for them to work, worsening poverty and placing a burden of care on families who may already be struggling.

To stop Haiti’s HIV problem getting worse in future, we need to work with children – the adults of tomorrow.

But only 15% of girls and 28% of boys know enough to protect themselves, and those who do have enough knowledge often fail to act on it: condom use is low among young people.

But when they’re given the tools, young people can be incredibly effective and committed in the fight against HIV/AIDS. Take the example of Pierre.

He is 15, the third child in a family of four. Pierre’s childhood was tough.

He was born in Port-au-Prince and lived there until his mother died in 2002. He and his siblings went to live with their grandmother in Marigot, a small, isolated community in Southeastern Haiti.

Pierre shares information about HIV/AIDS with a youth group at his school in Marigot

Pierre remembers what this difficult period was like: “When we arrived there, we were newcomers in a strange area and life wasn’t easy. Every day when I woke up, I asked myself what the next day would be like. I was so upset and confused. I enrolled in the sixth year at the local primary school but found it tough attending daily.”

But Pierre’s life took a new direction when Plan staff visited his school. “They showed an awareness film on HIV/AIDS and led a debate,” he remembers.

“I kept thinking about the film, wondering about HIV, how it was transmitted and how could we protect

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ourselves from it. I knew most people in my community were saying AIDS was a supernatural disease. Two weeks later, the Plan staff came back and invited students to volunteer for advanced training. I joined in.”

“Thanks to the Plan project, I summoned my strength, forgot my sorrows as an orphan, stopped complaining about my future, and improved my self-esteem as well as that of my classmates.

Confidence and enthusiasm

“I have devoted myself to the fight against HIV/AIDS and will do so through the course of my life. I strongly encourage other young people to do the same. As positive sexual behaviour promoters, we have contributed a great deal to the fight against HIV/AIDS.”

“After the training, I felt like another person and I was less troubled day by day,” says Pierre. “I wasn’t a stranger anymore. I was chatting joyfully with friends who paid more attention to what I was saying. Our group was trained how to make our classmates and friends aware of HIV/AIDS during ordinary conversations. I had a lot to say and shared my knowledge with everybody!

“After the training, I felt like another person and I was less troubled day after day.”

“I also took part in training on organising youth groups, community participation, and life skills. Now I’m in the fourth year at secondary school in Marigot and I’m fully committed to public awareness activities related to HIV/AIDS in my local area. I also share my knowledge with children and young people from other schools during events and celebrations.

Plan also promotes HIV/AIDS prevention through concerts and video presentations. We get key community members involved, working with religious leaders and health workers to reduce prejudice against those with HIV/AIDS. This work is getting results: awareness of the disease has now reached 99% in areas where Plan works. We provide care and support for people living with HIV/AIDS, particularly children and orphans.

Children are making change happen Organised groups of young people have long been significant in social and political change in Haiti, in the form of student unions at universities and secondary schools, as well as religious

146.5mm INSIDE

youth groups and sports clubs.

As Pierre’s story shows, youth groups can capture the energies and commitment of their members and are vital in spreading public health messages, like that of HIV/AIDS prevention.

“I have devoted myself to the fight against HIV/AIDS and will do so through the course of my life.”

Pierre campaigns on HIV/A

Plan helps young people to organise themselves so that they can make their views heard. We provide training on taking part in decision-making, and on how to work together to press for change. We support groups to build local and national networks, bringing them together to learn from each other.

IDS

Through working with children and young people, Plan can help to bring about some of the changes that are needed in Haiti, and have a positive influence on its future.

Some names have been changed for privacy and child protection reasons.

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148.5mm BACK

Challenge and change in Haiti

Real progress

Haiti is the poorest country in the Americas and faces huge challenges to improve its children’s lives. Economic and social conditions have deteriorated over the past decade due to continued political turmoil, resulting in extreme poverty, high inflation and unemployment running at 70%.

With the support of Plan, children and adults in Haiti are working together to develop their communities and claim their right to a better future. And real progress is being made.

Last year, our work included:

Plan concentrates on health, water and sanitation, education and improving household incomes. We raise the profile of child rights so that children are protected from violence and can take part in the development of their communities. We help local organisations develop projects for children and encourage children and families to take part.

Rezene Tesfamariam, Plan’s Country Director in Haiti, says: “Children and young people are challenging us to achieve our goals and we would like to thank all who are supporting us to meet this challenge.”

In this Country Progress Report, we look at just one successful project among the many we have helped to carry out this year.

Providing clean

drinking water is a cruc

ial part of our work in

Haiti

Haiti country facts Population: 8.5 million

People without adequate sanitation: 70%

Capital: Port-au-Prince UN Human Development Index ranking: 154th (of 177 countries)

Primary-age children in school: 55%

• Training 100 media personalities on violence towards children and on how to raise public awareness of children’s rights

• Setting up three savings and loans

nursing, accounting, carpentry, and plumbing

• Improving standards of education by building 22 classrooms, equipping 224 classrooms, and training 740 teachers.

Plan’s greatest successes come from a joint effort combining the hard work and determination of communities, children, volunteers, staff, and partner organisations. The ongoing support of our sponsors is a vital ingredient, too. It’s their generosity and commitment that allows us to continue to help children in 49 of the poorest countries in the world.

So on behalf of the children and communities we work with, thank you to all our sponsors!

Plan UK Registered Charity No: 276035

HTI

Any enquiries please contact: Nick Burton. e: nick@bright-uk.com m: 07884 367567. d: 020 7620 8150 Size (Prod)

Colours(Prod)

Art (A/D)

Copy (C/W)

Content (Acc.)

Haiti

• Providing vocational training for 178 young people, in areas including

(Sources: the UN, the Foreign & Commonwealth Office)

0407 100647 PLAN 0407_Haiti 28.11.07 210x443.5mm FOLD TO A5 3 Client proof: 2

Small busin ess owners are benefiting fro and loans pro m our savings jects

centres and providing business skills training: 91% of participants have increased their incomes and started to save

Life expectancy at birth: 52 years

Admagic No: Bright No: Client name: File name: Date: Size: Studio proof:

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Country Progress Report 2007