2015 Annual Report

Children’s Nutrition Program of Haiti 2015 Annual Report TARYN S I LVER TARYN i ng hannah sterl Executive Director Chris Devaney Founder’s Renews Support for the Next Letter Generation of Children in Haiti Board of Directors 2015 was a year of renewal for the Children’s Nutrition Program (CNP) of Haiti—or Kore Rev. John Talbird, Chair A Word From Mitch Peter Rawlings, MD, Vice Chair Timoun as it is known in Haitian Creole. Chris Devaney came on board as Executive Anna Manley, Secretary Director in April, and under his leadership, Kore Timoun renewed efforts to improve health Laura Reid, Treasurer I started working in Haiti at Hopital Saint Croix in 1988 on a in the communities of the Léogâne region through coordinated health-care services and com- 15 Mitchell L. Mutter, MD, Founder Ex 20 medical mission trip. Along the way, I have had the opportunity munity participation. ec r ut be Charles Sternbergh, MD ive em to work with a number of individuals dedicated to God and Di ec Richard Randolph, MD rect in D Kore Timoun Founder, Dr. Mitch Mutter Chris came to Kore Timoun after 25 years in the political arena; he most recently served as or Ch tina Robert Stone service to others. ris Devaney with Kore Jim Hudson Tennessee Republican Party Chairman. He, his wife Heather, and their four children live in Annette Vaughn In 1998 the Children’s Nutrition Program of Haiti became a Chattanooga and are active members of Lookout Mountain Presbyterian Church, where he 501c3 dedicated to the development and nutrition of Haiti’s serves as a deacon. Chris is a long-time Kore Timoun supporter through mission trips and children. Since then we have had many wonderful volunteers. Deb Watlington epitomized the dedication and church involvement. He particularly appreciates our organization’s emphasis on empower- Advisory Council ment—the concept that families must “learn to fish” in order to sustain their own health. S I LVER TARYN Ashley Aakesson, MAA character of those who inspired to help raise a generation of healthy children empowering them to raise Haiti Gretchen Berggren, MD out of its poverty. Chris says he sees his role as Executive Director as one of “cheerleader and organizer” who Kathryn Bolles, MPH communicates the significance of the work we do in Haiti to our supporters. “Haiti is a short Chris Buresh, MD Deb Watlington, a dental hygienist, and her dentist husband Rob, made many trips to Haiti. In addition, Deb Susan Cook, RN plane ride away from the US,” he says, “and it has severe and unique problems. God doesn’t supported all of our medical trips to Haiti over the past 15 years, ordering medicines and supplies and organiz- Cathy Dorvil, OTR, MS know borders. They are our neighbors. I am committed to ensuring we have the resources and Peter Ferris ing materials and teams. Deb went home to be with our Lord on October 5, 2015. the plan going forward as we continue to help raise a healthy generation of Haitian children.” Harold Latta, MD David Rainey, MD Deb truly exemplified Matthew 25:35. “For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and Founded in 1998, Kore Timoun is beginning to renew its programs by supporting the next Priscilla Stockwell, FNP you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was generation of Léogâne children. Chris is particularly interested in expanding our programs Kara Telesmanick, MPH Jack C. Vaughn, Jr. sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.” Deb was guided by this scripture in her in the urban areas. In 1998, he says, there was a significant malnutrition problem among call to God’s work. She also displayed the Holy Spirit in her work. Galatians 5:22 states “But the Fruit of the children in isolated, rural, mountainous villages of Léogâne. Then, the malnutrition rate Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self control.” All of us who among children under 5 years of age was 25%. Now, it has been reduced to “an astonishing U. S. Staff knew Deb saw these attributes in her character. 3%.” But Chris notes that malnutrition in the city of Léogâne seems to be growing: “Just Chris Devaney, Executive Director like in the United States, this more urban area has new and different challenges from the Chris Devaney at the St. John’s Episcopal School in Ti Harpon Russell Robards, Finance Director Deborah Watlington’s works were truly part of her spiritual journey. To know Deb was to know her faith and rural villages where we have historically operated.” works. Deb would often say, “We all become “best buds” when we have worked together in Haiti. It is difficult to Leogane Staff imagine our work without our “best bud.” Deborah Watlington’s spirit and legacy will continue to live through Chris says his political background prepared him to communicate the CNP message to sup- contents Taryn Silver, Country/Program Director CNP Haiti. porters, oversee responsible management of resources, and articulate to new audiences what Yvon Jean, Operations Manager CNP can accomplish. Though he is headquartered in Chattanooga, Chris says he bridges the Nutrition Efforts Expand 2 Dominique Brizard, Executive Assistant distance between himself and Haitian staff through collaboration and trust. But he encourages Djego’s Story 3 Rose Elene Veillard, Community everyone in the U.S. to travel to Haiti: “Every time I have travelled there, there has been a Programs Manager Maternal Health 4 Yva Aristyl, Community Coordinator person or experience that has really made an impact on me.” He tells the story of visiting a Metichael Vilus, Assistant Operations Dr. Mitchell Mutter, Founder dying mother who asked the CNP group to take and nourish her child: “I still remember WASH 5 Manager driving back to our headquarters in our crowded Land Cruiser with our monitrice holding Trevor Roose, Volunteer the child, which they nicknamed Koretina after our organization. The mother later died and Kore Timoun’s Impact 2015 6 – 7 Tania Mathurin, Fellow CNP staff nursed Koretina back to health” before she went to live with family members. “I Jessica Petz, Fellow Sustainable Livelihood Projects 8 Michelle Roose, Fellow am happy to report that Koretina is healthy and doing great,” says Chris. Alexander Baker, Fellow Meet Maggie Latta 9 robards Estelle Donse, Fellow In months to come, count on Chris to let you know that Kore Timoun is healthy, its programs Meet Monitrice Solene Riviere 10

Lexie Zimbelman, Fellow r u ssell thriving, and its staff doing great things to empower the people of Léogâne. Maggie Latta, Fellow 2015 Donors 11 – 13 56 Haitian staff CNP Partners in 2015 ABOUT THE COVER A family in Tom Gato after receiving a home visit from one of CNP’s monitrices. Photo by Nicole Wolf Photography i ng hannah sterl by P hoto 1 taryn silver Nutrition programs expand We are all family: Rose Andrè, efforts to monitor children and Marlyse, Kore Timoun and address malnutrition issues little Djego work together

Growth monitoring is a long-standing Kore medical problems receive outpatient therapy, photography to beat malnutrition Timoun project. Our monitrices have growth including weekly consultations at one of 15 CNP-operated outpatient clinics; they receive On December 31, 2014 while most of us were ringing in the NewYear, monitrice monitoring down to a science—a science D wolf n i cole j e they practice with love and compassion. Plumpy’Nut or medical peanut butter, a ready Rose Andrè embarked on a journey to save a young boy’s life. Later this year, another g o Child in Tom Gato is weighed during a home visit Monthly, our monitrices (local women who to use therapeutic food proven to treat acute monitrice, Marlyse, took up the torch to continue nursing the boy to health. This is is by monitrice Francoise Lazarre. p provide education and support to families malnutrition. Children under five and pregnant the story of how Rose Andrè and Marlyse gave new life to a baby named Djego. ic tu or lactating moms found suffering from moder- re in their own communities) fan out into d h Léogâne’s mountainous communities to ate acute malnutrition are referred to Kore e Rose Andrè monitors the health and nutrition re check all children under five years old to be Timoun’s supplementary feeding program, and w status of all children under the age of 5 in the ith sure they are well nourished and growing. they visit our outpatient clinics every other m area of Bel Jacques, where she lives. While out Rose Andrè grew deeply on tr A monitrice measures each child’s weight, week. ice on one of her routine house visits, Rose Andrè affectionate for Djego and she hoped s R height, and mid-upper arm circumference ose saw Djego, a severely malnourished boy whose to continue caring for him, but Haitian And r him and compares these measurements to those of Positive Deviance Hearth—Ti Fwaye in Haitian re an re fo condition was becoming worse. At age 21 social services required that he return to his d Marly lped ca average, healthy children. Children showing Creole—continues to be at the heart of Kore se that he months he was extremely tiny for his age and grandmother. His malnutrition worsened, and signs of acute malnutrition are referred to Timoun. This is a tried-and-true method of visibly wasted. He could neither walk nor stand he came back to the hospital. inpatient or outpatient treatment centers; identifying mothers whose children are well and had very little energy. Djego was suffering trouble communicating, an effect of severe parents of those who are underweight are re- nourished and determining what they do to from severe acute malnutrition with complica- This time, another monitrice, Marlyse, stepped malnutrition. Everyone loves little Djego ferred to Positive Deviance Hearth supported keep their families healthy. These women then tions, and he needed to be transferred to an in. With eight children of her own and two (we nicknamed him Koretino), and Marlyse by Kore Timoun. volunteer their time to help teach others in inpatient facility immediately. Djego’s mother grandchildren, Marlyse didn’t have a lot of and her family work hard to bring him up their communities how to keep their children had died a few months back and his father left to time on her hands for a malnourished baby. But to speed developmentally—with the help of Community Management of Acute Mal- nourished. The program encourages neighbors go to Port au Prince in search of work. He was she made time. She took little Djego to Petit Kore Timoun. nutrition is an internationally agreed-upon to adopt affordable, effective, and sustainable photography left in the care of his elderly grandmother who Goave and stayed with him for 11 days. Then she standard for treating children with acute nutritional practices already acceptable in the was not physically able to take him to his weekly brought him home and, with the help of a nearby Members of the Kore Timoun family en- malnutrition. Working with the Haitian community. Ten-day training sessions take appointments at Kore Timoun’s outpatient treat- Kore Timoun outpatient treatment center, she counter many vulnerable children like Djego, government’s Nutritional Stabilization Unit, place at the “hearth,” or home, of the volunteer wolf n i cole ment center, let alone all the way to the inpatient nursed him to health in less than two months. children who live in extremely difficult situa- mother. The program continues to thrive This child is having her mid-upper arm circumference Kore Timoun provides both preventive educa- facility in Petit Goave. tions arising from poverty, disease, and family tion and treatment for families of actuely because it is delivered through participatory (MUAC) measured. MUAC is an anthropometric Djego continues to stay with Marlyse, and he is complications. Their futures appear bleak and malnourished children. Severely malnour- adult learning and because it shows people how measure used to determine nutritional status. Rose Andrè knew that without proper treatment like one of her own children now. At 25 months their lives predetermined. But we have hope. ished children with medical problems are tpatient center. Djego could die, so she decided to take him Stories like little Djego’s new life give us all NP’s ou when he was discharged from the treatment sent to a stabilization center 40 minutes from t at C ’Nu to the center herself. After hiking through the center, he weighed 14 pounds. At 27 months he hope for a future in which the cycle of disease Kore Timoun headquarters, for five to seven py um and poverty is broken, and Haitians are em- Pl mountains of Oranger, taking a motorcycle taxi, weighed 19 pounds! We believe Djego is now days. Severely malnourished children without g in powered to raise their country from poverty. iv and then a tap-tap (a brightly decorated bus), almost three years old. He walks, but still has ce e r Rose Andrè and little Djego arrived at the stabili- d il Woman sorting beans during h zation center on New Year’s Eve 2014. C a Ti Fwaye session. before after Monitrice Djego was admitted and treated. For 17 days Felicia Rose Andrè stayed by his side day and night to Before: Djego after prepares the feed, care for, and love him. Once released, he first returned stove for a Diego and Rose Andrè returned to Bel Jacques from the inpatient Ti Fwaye together where she continued to look after him. stabilization center in January 2015. session. 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robards views” and “cool mountain breezes.” In Barèt says she is “learning a whole lot” as she helps Maggie came to Léogâne with pre-existing she works with “a great community that is Kore Timoun work towards its mission to r u ssell ties to Haiti, a place she has been familiar invested and motivated to get the job done.” raise a healthy generation of Haitian children.

8 donse estelle 9 Solene Riviere’s focus Thank you to our donors in 2015 on education spells a These individuals and organizations generously supported the Children’s Nutrition Program of Haiti this year. Fondate (Founder) Bill and Ann Aiken James and Marian Steffner Ann and Mitch Tyler Bill and Ruth Ann Honeycutt s i lver taryn $10,000 or more Subhi and Maysoon Ali Ken and Priscilla Stockwell Barry and Brenda Walston Andrea Huddleston bright future for the Anonymous (2) Kemmer and Martha Anderson Carol Swarts Richards and Evy Washburne Albert and Elizabeth Ignatowski Church of the Good Shepherd Tim Ashburn Marie Thatcher Kelly Watson Douglas Keebler Fleta Ricks Walls Fund Mary Beecherl John and Eileen Thornton Bill and Peggy White Craig and Laura Kellogg communities she serves HaitiServe Charlie and Phyllis Belcher David and Lee Ellen Trenner Beth Winstead Tom and Vicki Kolb Rivermont Presbyterian Church Richard and Kathryn Bolles Henry and Margaret Vosswinkel Patricia Yeo Ann Kozlow Sequoyah Hills Presbyterian Church Charles Brock David and Sandra Webb Eleanor Lamak Solene Riveire, 29, is a single woman whose primary focus is educating the communities she serves. The Generosity Trust Nancy Bryan Miller Welborn Zanmi (Friend) Harold and Lydia Latta Alfred and Carol Legendre A monitrice since 2010, she lives with her parents, three brothers, and four sisters in the community The Rotary Foundation Tara Burnette Bill and Jane Young $200 - $499 University of Tennessee Ted and Mary Wayne Bywater Anonymous (2) James and Mamie Levi of Paraison. Daily she travels to the mountainous villages of Paraison, Samson, Gibile, and Bois Olan and Norma Mills Virginia Caldwell Patne (Partner) Benevity Cummunity Impact Fund John Long Gauche, weighing children and providing lessons on nutrition and family planning to their parents. So Mitchell and Carol Mutter Collin Cherry $500 - $999 J P Morgan Chase Foundation Sandra and Richard Lopacki lene R We talked with Solene about what inspires her and how she spends her days. iviere with Ti Madam Chuck and Martha Sternbergh Carole Clark Anonymous (2) Second Presbyterian Women Leslie MacLean Robert and Lacie Stone Michelle Collins Rivermont Presbyterian Women Virginia Association of Family & Robert Main John and Mary Talbird William and Angie Conroy The Parish of the Epiphany Consumer Sciences Scott and Jeanie Manley David Mansouri Why did you decide to become a monitrice? all hours of the day and night. I am a strong What do you find difficult in your work? Jo Ann Yates Gregory and Joy Cook University Presbyterian Church Lamar Alexander Alan and Belinda Crisman W. W. Lynch Foundation Joanne Allen Judy and David Marlow When Kore Timoun came to my community leader in my community now. Everyone That would be hiking up and down the Bynefeke (Benefactor) Todd and Catherine Davis Women and Children’s Hope Carolyn Amiot Michael McGauley they were looking for someone who would help comes to me when they need family planning mountains! It is not easy, but I am used to $5,000 - $9,999 Fred and Amy Decosimo Foundation Billie Bagwell Gregory and Madelyn Mencio the children and women in the community. I or information about family planning. it now, so it is not a problem. Diocese of East Tennessee Fred Dettwiller Richard and Judy Austin Maxfield Bahner Carmen Mitchell Lydia Morton saw this was an opportunity to do something Lookout Mountain Presbyterian Church Nancy Devaney John and Billie Bacon Gordon Bell Maine Episcopal Missionary Society Janet Dwight Thomas Bagley David Bess Bruce Moyer good. I felt like I found my calling. Before the What is a typical day like for you? What is a memorable experience you have Parkway Presbyterian Church Cameron and Betsy Ellis Brett and Katy Billings Kathryn Bolles Donna Naifeh training I did not know a lot about health, but I normally wake up very early at 3 or 4 in while working with CNP? Ringgold United Methodist Church Eric Ellis John and Melanie Blake Emily Booker Chuck and Deborah Nash I was very interested. the morning. I need to help my mother to There are lots of memorable experiences, Saint Timothy’s Episcopal Church Beth and Fen Ewing Raymond and Carolyn Boles Thaddeus and Susan Boroughs Harriet New Tim and Kathleen O’Bryan get ready to go to work and then take her to but one would be a child that was maybe one Unum Group D. J. Farris Carolyn and Steve Brannon Susan Bosworth Fletcher Bright Peter and Laura Frederick Kathrin Brewer Scott and Rebecca Bowers Carter and Jennifer Paden What does monitrice mean to you? where she cooks and sells food on the road. month old when I found him. He was severely Herbert and Mary Berl James and Natalie Haslam Tim Bristol Paul and Susu Brock, Jr. Buz and Mary Parker Being a monitrice is being a helper and a guide When I get back I make a little breakfast for malnourished. He needed to go to the inpatient Carole Clark Cindy Hodge Andrea Crouch Hugh and Judy Brown Edward Pershing for my community. I help them take care of myself and head out to work. stabilization center in Petit Goave, but the Robert and Elizabeth Corker Charles and Robin Holt Lacie and Patrick Crow Harry and Joan Brown Alexia Poe Christine and Joseph Popolo themselves and their families. mother refused. She said it was not something Chris and Heather Devaney Marshall and Hilda Jemison Adam and Niki Davenport Cheryl and Samuel Chantilis Gail Ewing Marianne Jenkins Fred and Amy Decosimo Laura Cooley Deborah Radwan Every day is different. Some days I am doing that could be cured, but a spirit caused her Tom Hutcheson Gerald and Joy Jones Judy Elb John Crisman George and Wendy Robinson The community has a lot of respect for me and home visits. If the houses are close to mine child to be this way. Rotary Club of Chattanooga Breakfast Kerry Kelly Peter Ferris John and Meg Crisp Jeffrey and Kersti Rose comes to me for everything health related—at I can do 10 visits a day. If the houses are far B.W. and Rhoda Ruffner Don and Hollie Kent Jim and Nancy Ford Kelly Crockett Charles and Susan Rosenfelder Ann and Matt Schooler away I can only do five, and sometimes I I talked to the mother and explained to her Manish and Maya Sethi R. Lee and Christine Kern Dick Fowler Dick and Lyndia Crotteau Jack and Annette Vaughn Ashley Knickrehm Heather Furniss Wilbur and Margaret Davis Merrill Sexton need to stay overnight in a community what malnutrition was and how it can be cured. Rob Watlington Andrew and Janice Krouskop Sydney Hall Bradley Davis Angela Seymour because there is a lot of walking up and I told her about how breastfeeding the baby is Melba Wood Suzanne Lawson Robert Hartmans Kenneth and Carol Davis Suzanne Silver down mountains! Some families receive the best thing for her and the baby. I also told Dianna Lucas Lee Barnhardt and Jeff Hatling Laura Davis Sam and Donna Smartt, Jr.

s i lver taryn Margaret Spellings short visits if they understand the informa- her that this hospital was free. The mother said Lide (Leader) Mary Masterson Dorothy Howard Barbara Davison $1,000 - $4,999 Rusty Mckee Robert and Deborah Hulse Ramsey and Lucy Dethero Chip & Tasha Sternbergh tion, but some require longer visits to really that she could not go because she could not pay Anonymous (4) William McNinch Alex and Helen Jahangir Judith DeWitt Dick and Elsa Stuber get them to comprehend the lessons. I also for transportation, but I offered to pay for her Blessed John XXIII Parish Leigh Ann Michaels Barry and Leslie Johnson Cathy Dorvil Susan Tacito have one family planning club, two vaccina- transportation. I explained to the mother that Blue Cross Blue Shield Marshall and Kimberly Mitchell Lisa Johnson Joanne Ebanks Michael E. and Denise Taylor Joseph Thatcher tion posts, and one women’s group. I work her child could die if she does not bring him Community Trust Ted and Mary Moore John and Jane Kenyon Roy Exum Chattanooga Christian Community David and Vivienne Nichols Elizabeth Ligon Elizabeth Garner Ann and Wayne Tideman one day a week at our CMAM malnutrition before I left. Foundation William and Jill Obremskey Robert Lipman Mary Jo and Jay Gartner Rick and Christy Torok center in Gran Savanne. Child Aid International Rosemarie Otto Cristina Lynch Jeff and Monique Gefter Herbert Van den Bergh The next morning the mother showed up at my Fanm Djanm W. A. and Kathy Patten Peter and Dixie Mahurin Amity Gillespie Shawn Venezia Charlie Walldorf What do you like best about your work? house with the child ready to go to the hospital. First Presbyterian Church of Steve and Sue Powers Keith and Jan Michaels Susan and Mark Godvin Lake Jackson, Texas Richard and Jo Randolph Mary Beth Modic Lawrence Graham Marsha and Joe Watlington I like all my work, but I really love the When she came back from the hospital she Global Giving Anna Manley and Mathieu Rannou Nicholas Nichols James and Anne Hall Ray and Allison Webb trainings. The trainings we receive at exclusively breastfed her baby boy, and now at Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church Peter and Milly Rawlings James and Jane Palmer Lina and Charles Hart Colleen Welch Kore Timoun really help me to help my 16 months old he is in good health. Every time Harry & Jean Snyder Family Trust Robert and Ann Reid Jonathan Rawlings Beth and Sam Harwell John and Patricia Welker Jeanne Werner community. I go by their house to screen him he continues Mach Fuels Inc. James and Lynda Sattler Laura Reid Steve and Jean Hawkins Memorial Hospital Peter and Susan Scheidt Rick and Julie Reinink Ryan Haynes David and Stephanie Wharton to gain weight! National Christian Foundation Megan Schmidt John and Paula Rennich Patsy and Patsy Hazelwood Lauren White New Philadelphia Moravian Church Robert and Robin Sloane Russell Robards Eddy Hilger Kaari-Ana and James Wicklund During a rally post in Paraison, Monitrice Saint Michael and All Angels Episcopal Christine and Trip Smith John and Kim Roberts Dianne Hilger Michael Williams Solene shows women different options for Church Alice Smith Fred and Kathleen Robinson Cecilia and Norris Hill Laura and Blair Woodall William and Mary Wray holding an infant while breastfeeding. St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church Stephen Smith James W. and Rita Roxlo Harriette and John Hill Top Flight Inc. 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Here’s what your money can do in 2016

COST OPPORTUNITY

$5,000 Empower a Community. Your dollars go directly to help the community you assist. You will get an update on how your help is making a difference in that village.

$2,600 Sponsor a Monitrice. Our community nutrition workers are the heart of Kore Timoun/CNP. Your help assists CNP to help her in all facets of her job.

$1,000 Save a Child, Invest in our Plumpy Nut Program. This nutrition supplement is at the core of our malnutrition rehabilitation program.

$500 Train a Monitrice. Provide her with training and supplies. To help the children of Léogâne, our monitrices must be equipped with the best skills and proper supplies.

$250 Monitrice Transportation Fund. Provide a year of transportation for a monitrice. She travels great distances to help the children and families in her area.

$100 Support a Ti Fwaye. The Hearth Program (Ti Fwaye) is a crucial part of our fight against malnutrition. This program trains mothers through so they can learn to raise healthy children and learn about the importance of balanced meals, safe water, and proper hygiene.

❤ Donate to our operating budget to pay for Haitian staff, supplies, food, training – all of the support elements that allow our programs to exist. Any amount is appreciated.

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