Programs: Les Centres GHESKIO
Announced:
October 12, 2010
Category:
Facilitating Job Training & Workforce Development
Fund Amount: $908,700 Grant
Disbursed to Date: $908,700
In this video, meet a few of the students at GHESKIO
who are learning new skills and helping rebuild their country.
See more in the GHESKIO Photo Gallery.
The Clinton Bush Haiti Fund’s initial grant to GHESKIO provided immediate relief funding for operations at its Port-au-Prince clinic, which was transformed into a refugee camp, serving 7,000 patients with medical care, food, and water.
The second grant supported the socioeconomic needs of GHESKIO residents through a multi-faceted approach that included livelihood promotion activities such as education, vocational training, and access to microcredit. It also allowed GHESKIO to conduct lifesaving activities, including cholera treatment and prevention.
More specifically, this Clinton Bush Haiti Fund grant provided healthcare, sanitation, and other basic services for camp residents. This included disease screenings, immunizations, orthopedic and rehabilitation services, nutrition programs for children and pregnant women, prenatal care, and activities to prevent gender-based violence.
Why We Invested in Les Centres GHESKIO
Our grant to GHESKIO represents our commitment to filling near-term gaps that lay the foundation for longer-term reconstruction, by supporting the medical and social services displaced Haitians need and creating economic opportunity through workforce development and microfinance.
Transforming Lives and Livelihoods
- Provided cholera prevention training sites, education, and treatment centers, treating 8,324 cholera patients, with the lowest mortality rate recorded at any Cholera Treatment
- Center in Haiti (0.3%).
- Ran the only tuberculosis testing site around Port-au-Prince.
- Delivered a workforce development program in construction trades.
- Expanded microcredit services to patients and other eligible camp residents benefitting from GHESKIO’s services, particularly targeting the adult female population and young entrepreneurs graduating from the GHESKIO vocational school.
About Les Centres GHESKIO
GHESKIO Center in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, was the first institution in the world dedicated to the fight against HIV/AIDS. It has provided continuous medical care in Haiti since 1982 without ever shutting its doors or charging fees. In response to the January 12th earthquake, Les Centres GHESKIO, a Haitian medical research and care center for HIV and tuberculosis patients, accommodated 7,000 people in its site in downtown Port-au-Prince, providing emergency care and assistance. In addition to health programs, GHESKIO focuses on holistic assistance. Their other programs include microfinance loans to small business owners as well as schools which give children access to education and psycho-social counseling.
