http://www.studentsforhaiti.org/sfh.org/Projects/Projects.html In Haiti, the current state of healthcare is not sufficient enough to serve its citizens well. Without adequate healthcare, Haitians lack the foundation upon which they can better their community. It is much more difficult to get an education or earn a living if basic healthcare needs are not met. Partners in Health reports that over ten million children living in developing countries die each year before they reach the age of five. Most of them from very preventable causes. Basic healthcare could prevent most of these deaths. They also report that in Haiti, there is on average one doctor for every 1,000 Haitians. In Haiti alone, the World Health Organization states that almost 50% of the population goes without healthcare every day. This has serious implications. UNICEF reports that if a child is born in Haiti, her or she is ten times more likely to die before the age of five than if born in the United States. This cannot continue. <br/> iWeb 3.0.4 http://www.studentsforhaiti.org/sfh.org/Projects/Entries/2011/9/14_Scholarship_Program.html 260b72cb-7108-4560-b073-ad03e14b14f5 Wed, 14 Sep 2011 18:01:57 -0400 <a href="http://www.studentsforhaiti.org/sfh.org/Projects/Entries/2011/9/14_Scholarship_Program_files/IMG_1069.jpg"><img src="http://www.studentsforhaiti.org/sfh.org/Projects/Media/object001_1.jpg" style="float:left; padding-right:10px; padding-bottom:10px; width:183px; height:126px;"/></a>There is a dire need for education with Haiti. The majority of schools in Haiti require tuition that many families can not afford to pay. In order for the haitian people to have a strong future generation their children must go to school. Help us fund the education of children through out multiple communities in southern rural Haiti. We have the opportunity to send send a child to school for 100 dollars. The scholarship will pay for the child’s tuition, uniform, food and textbooks, and transportation for the year.<br/><br/><br/> http://www.studentsforhaiti.org/sfh.org/Projects/Entries/2010/1/1_Reconstructing_Villa.html 901d7915-f9d1-4792-810d-c84ae9800956 Fri, 1 Jan 2010 18:08:15 -0500 <a href="http://www.studentsforhaiti.org/sfh.org/Projects/Entries/2010/1/1_Reconstructing_Villa_files/DSC_0766.jpg"><img src="http://www.studentsforhaiti.org/sfh.org/Projects/Media/object000_1.jpg" style="float:left; padding-right:10px; padding-bottom:10px; width:182px; height:137px;"/></a>Villa needs to be rebuilt but St. Boniface does not possess the funds necessary to do so -without our fundraising, Villa may never receive health care again. What Haiti needs, and has always needed, is long term, sustainable solutions that will allow generation after generation to experience the benefits. Health care in rural Haiti is in greater need now more than ever. Rebuilding this hospital serves Haiti in the short term and the long term. As thousands of Haitians flee Port–au-Prince and head into rural Haiti, into villages like Villa, this hospital is missed more and more. We are working to change that. Villa needs their health care back today. Tomorrow, someone will go untreated, someone will possibly die. <br/>Villa’s healthcare programs extend beyond the treatment of illness. The hospital provides over 100 annual educational programs in nutrition, women and children’s health, HIV/AIDS, and more.  Villa recognizes that education is also the key to the prevention and treatment of disease and eventually breaking the endless cycle of poverty. This is why Villa’s nutrition programs work with the community’s schools and provide over 700 children with scholarships. These programs send the most promising students to universities, medical schools, and nursing schools so that students may return to the Villa area to work in the hospital upon graduation. <br/>Once Villa is rebuilt, we can continue to provide 80 annual mobile clinics, vaccines and vitamin supplements for 8,000 children per year, meal plans for 500 severely malnourished children, and prenatal services to 2,000 pregnant women. Villa has treated close to 20,000 patients a year, and the need has been increasing every day since the earthquake.