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Part III, Line 4: In 2022, HRI served 12,898 people through all our programs and services. This included an expansion of our work in Haiti to include a focus on Maternal & Child Health. In this endeavor, HRI partnered with several local and international organizations, public clinics, and hospitals. We shared our expertise, and provided medications, medical supplies, micronutrients, food, and other necessities to extremely vulnerable children and women through this initiative. The objective is to improve the health and outcomes of pregnant women, newborns, and children under the age of 5. In turn, fewer children are likely to be abandoned in orphanages or trafficked as mothers will be healthier and better positioned to care for them. In Guatemala, HRI launched a new effort to establish programming in the Western Highlands of the country, a largely indigenous region with significant levels of poverty and extreme hunger and malnutrition, particularly among children. HRI continued to adapt and expand our programs to meet growing needs with long-term, sustainable responses to the daily struggles of vulnerable children, women, and families. The security situation in Haiti continued to deteriorate in 2022 with rampant gang violence, daily kidnappings, and blocked neighborhoods. Regardless of the insecurity, HRI maintained a strong presence on the ground, working with extremely vulnerable children and families, including large groups of women, children and elderly displaced from their homes due to gang violence. Even as other organizations continued to withdraw from Haiti due to the growing instability and violence, HRI continued to expand our programs to serve those in need. Extreme poverty leads to painful hunger, preventable illness, poor access to basic services, lack of education, and the inability to generate sufficient income to support a family. Throughout 2022, HRI strove to ignite the power and strengths of every individual we served; to give each the hand up they needed to break the cycle of poverty, and to become self-reliant. This was accomplished through life skills programming for youth and adults, income generation and micro-enterprise training and projects, and access to vocational and technical training by youth and women headed households. Simultaneously, HRI ensured that no child in our programs went hungry or struggled to access nutritious food due to political instability, or any other natural or manmade disaster. 2022 StatisticsA total of 537,188 meals were provided to over 1,300 children and families in 13 orphanages, 3 school breakfast programs, and to families living in distress. 3,787 children and young people benefitted from educational programs.576 trainings provided to thousands of children and adults including health, hygiene, nutrition, business, leadership, communication, problem solving, life skills, and more.2,251 benefited from medical care including prenatal care, deliveries, vitamins, medications, surgeries, vaccinations, hygiene products and more.3,673 benefited from improved sanitation. 144 benefitted from micro-enterprise training programs.238 people received access to clean water. 55 hygiene and handwashing stations were provided to prevent the transmission of cholera and other preventable diseases to thousands of children in orphanages, homes,and displaced persons camps.192 people benefitted from safe cookstoves. 2,938 people benefitted from other special projects.5,570 women and children under the age of 5 years were indirect beneficiaries of HRI support receiving vitamins, minerals, deworming tablets and prenatal care. |
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