05/12/2024

While many of us are spending the festive season in a safe environment and with our loved ones, the people of Haiti continue to struggle with existential challenges. This has a particular impact on women with high-risk pregnancies and their newborn babies. With our Christmas donation this year, we are supporting nph Kinderhilfe Lateinamerika e. V., which does life-saving work in a high-risk maternity ward at Saint Damien Children’s Hospital.

oneword has been a social partner of nph Kinderhilfe Lateinamerika e. V. (only available in German) for over a decade and supports the organisation on a voluntary basis with translations and donations. Their commitment remains essential, especially in Haiti, where inflation and shortages are further exacerbating an already critical situation.

Criminal gangs control access to necessary goods. As a result, there are shortages and enormous price increases. Hospitals are threatened with closure due to a lack of funding, medicines, staff and fuel for the power supply. In the midst of these challenges, the high-risk maternity ward at Saint Damien Children’s Hospital is an indispensable shelter. It is one of the few centres in Haiti that specialise in providing care for complicated and high-risk pregnancies. Every day, the centre treats cases that have potentially fatal complications, such as haemorrhaging, eclampsia or diabetes, which other facilities in the country are unable to cope with.

With our Christmas donation, we would like to help ensure that women and children in Haiti receive the medical help they urgently need. Of course, it will take far more than that to improve the situation in the long term. We therefore invite you to support nph Kinderhilfe Lateinamerika e. V. with a donation (only available in German).