Program areas at Love A Child
Love A Child conducted outreaches in the areas of disaster & hunger relief, children's development outreach, community medical outreach, & community development. These outreach operations included food distribution to the hungry, medical care through its clinics, education through its schools, running A large orphanage of more than 80 children, development programs for sustainability and home building programs.disaster & hunger relief:food distribution: through our school feeding outreach in lac's 18 schools, approximately 8,600 children received prepared meals daily. We also conduct community food distribution programs where we cook hot meals for villages and also fed approximately 45,000 people, distributing more than 26 million fortified rice meal packages in bulk.
Community medical:medical outreach: our medical outreach programs include our primary regional medical center; occassional remote medical clinics; A malnutrition center; A birthing center; and A dental and eye care clinic which collectively served more than 200,000 patients in the fond parisien region during 2022.lab services: we continued to work in conjunction with the university of Florida with our medical lab programs to detect strains of tuberculosis and other diseases as A part of country wide prevention education.
Children's development:education: approximately 8,600 children received education in our 18 schools.orphange: lac continued to operate A 21,500 square foot orphanage in fond parisien, housing 86 children.
Community development:sustainability: in our "development for sustainability" outreach, lac operated A marketplace, slaughterhouse, tilapia farm, chicken farm, agriculture training center and demonstration gardens and conducted sustainable agriculture training courses, graduating 32 students with A focus on sustainable agriculture and developing job creation opportunities as "business as missions".construction programs: Love A Child completed constructing 100 permanent replacement houses for families who lost their homes in the earthquakes in southern haiti in august 2021.