New CIDA Grant
The Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) has just approved a three-year, $660,000 project for Haiti, through ICC Canada.
Dear friend of ICC,
If you are a long-time supporter of International Child Care, and the people of Haiti and the D.R., you know that our history is full of stories of God's grace. It has been a year of challenges and transition, for the people of Haiti and the Dominican Republic, and for our programs. In recent days, the media have brought us news of the turmoil in Haiti as the poorest of the poor, who often earn less than $2 per day, are facing the brunt of world food prices spiraling out of their reach.
I am writing today, first, to thank you for sticking with us in prayer, and financially. And second, to share with you important news.
The Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) has just approved a three-year, $660,000 project through ICC Canada for Haiti. It will allow us to provide vital new health services to mothers at risk in northern Haiti, and confront a rising maternal mortality rate.
Integral to this project – and this is where our part comes in – is a 3-to-1 matching component. That is, over the next three years, every dollar given to ICC Canada for this project will turn into four dollars, thanks to the new CIDA grant. You have to like that kind of math.
To launch this project, and leverage the full match of about $50,000 in our current fiscal year, ICC Canada must raise about $12,000 before the end of June. I am writing today to try to mobilize you and the community of ICC supporters to consider this exceptional opportunity to make a difference.
Here are the facts behind the grant. Maternal mortality rates in Haiti have climbed an estimated 18 per cent since 2000 to 630 per 100,000 births. Up to 80 per cent of deliveries still take place in the home. Homes are typically small, poorly lit and ventilated, with dirt floors and leaky roofs. Basic commodities like running water, electricity, telephones and roads are non-existent.
Simply put, too many women die en route to help, often being carried down mountains on either a chair or a door converted into a makeshift stretcher.
ICC’s project will address these problems in northern districts of Haiti with a general population of about 70,000 people.
Your gifts will help launch the project that will include activities like:
• prenatal clinics and health education in remote areas, with a goal of getting pregnant women to the nearest hospital in Grande Rivière du Nord, or clinic in Bahon – the two main health facilities in the area – for their deliveries.
• providing voluntary counseling and testing for pregnant women, and fathers, for HIV/AIDS – along with appropriate treatment.
• building and upgrading labor and delivery rooms at the two nearest facilities, and providing for the set up of “centres d’hebergement,” or homes for pregnant mothers to stay near the two health facilities, while they wait to deliver.
All in all, with your support ICC will be able to provide an innovative and integrated range of vital support services to reduce the number of pregnant women who die from complications. It is a fantastic program that falls very much into the ICC model of showing God’s love by providing practical, on-the-ground, health care that makes a difference.
Such a remarkable opportunity to extend our dollars, I think, is a reflection of the credibility of ICC health programs, and the steadfast aid of our supporters that has sustained us through thick and thin. In many ways it is through the help of friends like you that we have seen God’s grace open new chapters.
This new project follows upon the successful completion of our last multi-year health project funded by CIDA last year. We are also in the research phase of another CIDA grant to grow our health programs in Santiago, Dominican Republic. And we hope to soon be able to renew our Mission Education Encounter Team trips to these countries. All of this, while we continue a search for a national director to lead us in our next chapter of growth.
As always, our hearts and our vision are big, ever mindful of Him to whom we have been called to respond. Stay tuned, as we move forward. And thank you for considering this new opportunity before us to stand with the people of Haiti.
In partnership,
Liz Froese Board Chair, ICC Canada
Black Pantone 280
Dear friend of ICC,
If you are a long-time supporter of International Child Care, and the people of Haiti and the D.R., you know that our history is full of stories of God's grace. It has been a year of challenges and transition, for the people of Haiti and the Dominican Republic, and for our programs. In recent days, the media have brought us news of the turmoil in Haiti as the poorest of the poor, who often earn less than $2 per day, are facing the brunt of world food prices spiraling out of their reach.
I am writing today, first, to thank you for sticking with us in prayer, and financially. And second, to share with you important news.
The Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) has just approved a three-year, $660,000 project through ICC Canada for Haiti. It will allow us to provide vital new health services to mothers at risk in northern Haiti, and confront a rising maternal mortality rate.
Integral to this project – and this is where our part comes in – is a 3-to-1 matching component. That is, over the next three years, every dollar given to ICC Canada for this project will turn into four dollars, thanks to the new CIDA grant. You have to like that kind of math.
To launch this project, and leverage the full match of about $50,000 in our current fiscal year, ICC Canada must raise about $12,000 before the end of June. I am writing today to try to mobilize you and the community of ICC supporters to consider this exceptional opportunity to make a difference.
Here are the facts behind the grant. Maternal mortality rates in Haiti have climbed an estimated 18 per cent since 2000 to 630 per 100,000 births. Up to 80 per cent of deliveries still take place in the home. Homes are typically small, poorly lit and ventilated, with dirt floors and leaky roofs. Basic commodities like running water, electricity, telephones and roads are non-existent.
Simply put, too many women die en route to help, often being carried down mountains on either a chair or a door converted into a makeshift stretcher.
ICC’s project will address these problems in northern districts of Haiti with a general population of about 70,000 people.
Your gifts will help launch the project that will include activities like:
• prenatal clinics and health education in remote areas, with a goal of getting pregnant women to the nearest hospital in Grande Rivière du Nord, or clinic in Bahon – the two main health facilities in the area – for their deliveries.
• providing voluntary counseling and testing for pregnant women, and fathers, for HIV/AIDS – along with appropriate treatment.
• building and upgrading labor and delivery rooms at the two nearest facilities, and providing for the set up of “centres d’hebergement,” or homes for pregnant mothers to stay near the two health facilities, while they wait to deliver.
All in all, with your support ICC will be able to provide an innovative and integrated range of vital support services to reduce the number of pregnant women who die from complications. It is a fantastic program that falls very much into the ICC model of showing God’s love by providing practical, on-the-ground, health care that makes a difference.
Such a remarkable opportunity to extend our dollars, I think, is a reflection of the credibility of ICC health programs, and the steadfast aid of our supporters that has sustained us through thick and thin. In many ways it is through the help of friends like you that we have seen God’s grace open new chapters.
This new project follows upon the successful completion of our last multi-year health project funded by CIDA last year. We are also in the research phase of another CIDA grant to grow our health programs in Santiago, Dominican Republic. And we hope to soon be able to renew our Mission Education Encounter Team trips to these countries. All of this, while we continue a search for a national director to lead us in our next chapter of growth.
As always, our hearts and our vision are big, ever mindful of Him to whom we have been called to respond. Stay tuned, as we move forward. And thank you for considering this new opportunity before us to stand with the people of Haiti.
In partnership,
Liz Froese Board Chair, ICC Canada
Black Pantone 280
posted by Linda Pascoe at 2:51 PM 
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