Thanks to You... Dear Hope for Haiti Family
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25TH ANNIVERSARY ANNUAL REPORT Thanks to you... Dear Hope for Haiti Family, It is with great pride and tremendous gratitude that we share this special 25th Anniversary 2014 Annual Report with you. This report will take you through our beginning steps, when my grandmother, JoAnne M. Kuehner, f irst founded H.E.A.R.T. (“Haitian Education and Revitalization Team”) to where the organization has grown just 25 years later. The symbol has always remained the true essence of the organization and inspires the team to carry out our mission each day. Some of you have been side by side with Hope for Haiti for all 25 years and others have joined the family more recently. YOU make up this dream team of donors, board members, staff, volunteers, and partners who are passionate about tackling some of our world’s most pressing problems in innovative, holistic, and strategic ways. Together, we are working hard to Connect, Heal, and Empower men, women, and children to be change-makers within their own communities and to provide opportunities for generational success. With your help, we will continue to create critical and meaningful impact for the next 25 years to come. Thank you “Mesi Anpil!” With love from our heart to yours, Tiffany R. Kuehner President and CEO Children of Haiti The children of Haiti capture the heart and soul of JoAnne Kuehner on her first trip to Haiti. Make a Difference With a desire to make a difference through education, JoAnne Kuehner founds the organization “H.E.A.R.T.,” The Haitian Education and Revitalization Team. 2 2014 Hope for Haiti Annual Report Volunteer Driven Completely volunteer - driven activities. Spreading Awareness School JoAnne Kuehner spreads awareness in Naples, FL Sponsors 25 children to attend school. through a grassroots approach, fundraising through the sale of Haitian art and engaging friends in her passion - the children of Haiti. 2014 Hope for Haiti Annual Report 3 Creating a Better Future Ensures that over 95 cents of every dollar donated is used for programs that First Employee can help create a better future for the Hires first employee! Believing in People children of Haiti. Rather than reinvent the wheel, the organization Scholarship Support focuses on those who are successfully implementing Reaches 1,500 students through programs on the ground and who will be there for scholarship support. the long term. 4 2014 Hope for Haiti Annual Report Hope for Haiti, Inc. Hope for Haiti, Inc. officially forms with the help of Fr. Bob Tabbert and Nutrition & Healthcare Dr. Keith Hussey and absorbs the JoAnne Kuehner joins forces with Dr. Keith activities of H.E.A.R.T. Hussey to expand the mission to include nutrition and healthcare. 2014 Hope for Haiti Annual Report 5 Programs Reach 100,000 Programs reach 100,000 adults and children annually. Engages Next Generation JoAnne’s grandaughter, Tiffany Kuehner, takes first trip to Haiti. Education Program Doubles Education Program doubles support to over 7,000 students and 19 schools and saves the lives of over 3,500 babies a year through our Nutrition Program. 6 2014 Hope for Haiti Annual Report Humanity & Love Teams of volunteers help with building projects, transporting supplies and medications for Fundraisers clinics, orphanages, and schools and learn 1st Annual Dine-Around fundraiser lessons in humanity and love. engages supporters in Naples, FL and raises funds for programs. 2014 Hope for Haiti Annual Report 7 Response Plans Establish Les Cayes Home Base Responds to the back-to-back hurricanes Infirmary St. Etienne The Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate offer Hope for Haiti a with the distribution of key survival Renovates and opens the Infirmary Guesthouse to serve as the organization’s home base of operations. materials to help families quickly recover. St. Etienne to serve the primary Develops a preparedness and response healthcare needs of the most vulnerable plan to ensure the organization is populations in Les Cayes. Dedicated to positioned for immediate action. the memory of Charles J. Hughes, the facility has a full-time Haitian medical team and serves as the base of all of First Haitian Staff Hope for Haiti’s healthcare operations. Hope for Haiti hires first Haitian staff member. 8 2014 Hope for Haiti Annual Report Seedling Nursery Teacher Salaries Medical Supplies Supports the success of a 100,000 seedling Supports teacher salaries at 37 schools, Distributes $15 million in medications nursery in Aquin, Haiti, to help with soil reaching 500 teachers and 12,000 students. and medical supplies to over 60 conservation and provide for the nutritional education and healthcare sites. needs of the community. Impacting Lives Impacts the lives of over 500,000 vulnerable Nutrition Clinics men, women and children annually. Funds four nutrition clinics saving the lives of over 5,000 children annually who suffer from severe malnutrition. 2014 Hope for Haiti Annual Report 9 Helping Disaster Victims Addressing Immediate Needs Establishes a clinic at an IDP camp Sends private planes, six 757s, and 1 DC-10 with supplies and to serve over 10,000 residents in personnel to address immediate needs in the disaster zone. disaster zone. Emergency Buckets Provides immediate response to January 12, 2010 earthquake with distribution of 1,000 Emergency $30 Million in Aid Buckets to earthquake survivors. Safely ships, stores and distributes $30 million in aid to internally displaced people (IDP) and hospitals within the first six months. 10 2014 Hope for Haiti Annual Report Emergency Support Provides additional emergency support Distribution of Supplies to partner schools in the aftermath of Distributes $20 million in the earthquake. non-earthquake related medications and medical supplies. 1st Anniversary of Infirmary Celebrates 1st anniversary of Hope for Haiti Infirmary in Les Cayes. Volunteer Hours Volunteers contribute over 11,000 hours! 2014 Hope for Haiti Annual Report 11 Vitamins & Medications Distributes over 1.5 million children’s Community Nursery multivitamins, 2,228 doses of Vitamin A, and Cultivates over 15,000 mango, lime and hardwood seedlings in a 13,000 doses of de-worming medication. Primary Healthcare community nursery selling over 600 to 350 school children and Infirmary St. Etienne provides primary community members, reinvesting profits back into the nursery. healthcare to over 10,000 patients. Providing Clean Water Installs a GE water purification system capable of providing clean water to 125,000 people. Textbooks to Students Organizes a Book Share Fund to 33 schools which provides 27,500 textbooks and notebooks to students. 12 2014 Hope for Haiti Annual Report Healthy Babies Sustainable Communities 80 midwives successfully deliver Progress out of Poverty Launches multi-year partnerships with Health & Dental 449 babies! Surveys 366 households using the Progress The Bob & Renee Parsons Foundation Provides primary care to over out of Poverty Index (PPI™). and the Dalio Foundation, Inc. to push 8,400 patients and dental the sustainable communities and social Organized Lesson Plans care to over 1,500 at Hope Organizes lesson planning and business models forward. for Haiti’s Infirmary. French/Math instruction training Reforestation for 137 teachers. Cultivates over 27,000 seedlings to reforest mountainsides, Distribution of Supplies Supporting the Schools providing nourishment and Distributes over $10 Million in medications and Supports over 10,000 students and income to communities. supplies through our Pharmacy and network of over 400 teachers in 40 primary and 60 education and healthcare partners. secondary schools. 2014 Hope for Haiti Annual Report 13 Investing in Women Renewable Electricity Provides over 200 women with financial School Reconstruction Installs 20 Bosch 230 watt solar panels literacy training and micro-credit loans to Freezer/Cell Phone Business Reconstruct and fully equip two major in two community schools providing invest in their small commerce activities. Launches a Solar Powered Freezer primary and secondary schools that renewable electricity to over 700 people. Business to provide community with cold are completely devastated by the 2010 Rerouted a River earthquake in Port-au-Prince, meaning Reroutes a river to protect a rural drinks and ice and a Cell Phone Charging that 2,000 students have a safe place school from future flash flooding with business, providing families with greatly to learn that is built to international the support of Connecticut-based firm needed access to electricity. building standards. Improving the Schools Building and Land Technology. Implements small social infrastructure projects at the school Upcycled Jewelry level, including a school garden, nursery, improving landscape Women-owned and led Upcycled Jewelry business is design and leasing a soccer field for community use. marketed online at local retailers in Haiti and the US. 14 2014 Hope for Haiti Annual Report Girls Soccer A Focus on Care Launches and supports 2 girls’ 5th Anniversary of Infirmary Collaborates with mPower to install Clean Water Infirmary celebrates 5th anniversary and soccer teams in two rural school an Electronic Medical Records System Installs two wells at school partner sites. Dr. Elmide Nazaire, Infirmary Director, communities, which are the first of streamlining patient files and enabling Haitian Water Technician provides education receives the 2014 Real Award presented to around the importance of clean water and its kind in this area. an exceptional global health worker. staff more time to focus on providing quality care to our patients. proper hygiene to the health of a community. Hot Meals Promoting Health Provides 832 students in our two Gifts-In-Kind sustainable community schools with Best Care Center Trains 24 Community Health Distributes over $11 million USD in Gifts-in-Kind Infirmary recognized as the best care hot, nutritious and locally produced Workers to promote health and including life-saving medicines and medical center for the diabetic, high-blood meals every school day. provide medical care and supplies supplies to 19 partners in Southern Haiti.