Help PROFAMIL Help Haiti

Amidst the rubble from the devastating earthquake that shook the Haitian capital and its surrounding areas earlier this month, it is clear that recovery and rebuilding efforts are merely just beginning. International Planned Parenthood Federation/Western Hemisphere Region (IPPF/WHR) has sent a three-person emergency response team to Haiti to work side by side with PROFAMIL, IPPFs Member Association in Haiti. PROFAMIL knows Haiti because their staff consists of local Haitian nurses, doctors and volunteers who have been providing quality reproductive health services on the ground since 1984.

PROFAMILs two largest clinics (that two weeks ago each served 200 Haitians a day) in Port-au-Prince and Jacmel have been destroyed in the earthquake. PROFAMILs staff is working to set up set up temporary distribution points to provide first aid, as well as obstetric care and basic surgery. PROFAMIL is organizing its outreach workers who, starting this week are moving through the main tent cities providing essential supplies and contraceptives, along with basic counseling and information.

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