Recently, Vitamin Angels received the below update from our partners at No Time for Poverty in Haiti.

No Time for Poverty (NTFP), a 501c3 in St. Paul, MN, has been working in Haiti since 2004.  Currently we are developing a comprehensive community health care program for children ages one day to sixteen years old.  The program includes a pediatric clinic (currently under construction) in Port Salut, Haiti, and a community outreach program for children ages one day to five years old.  Through both the clinic and the outreach program NTFP will offer a health education component including programs for breast feeding, vitamin distribution, nutrition, environmental concerns, etc.

In response to the earthquake, No Time For Poverty sent three medical teams to work in Port au Prince.  Our team members, working in coordination with Partners in Heath, JPHRO, and Quisqueya Crisis Relief, were placed in hospitals, mobile medical clinics, tent cities, and orphanages.  On each trip our team members brought with them medications (including many, many, many, many bottles of vitamins from Vitamin Angels!), and medical supplies.

The children in the crib pictures are from “Friends of the Orphans” an orphanage in Port au Prince Haiti, that some of our team members worked at and delivered vitamins to.  The other photographs are of children waiting in line to be seen at a mobile medical clinic, playing amidst the chaos, and living in one of the tent cities. 

While the needs in Haiti before the earthquake were great, they are now greater than ever.  Our thanks goes out to Vitamin Angels for the wonderful work they do in Haiti and throughout the world! 
 

All photos courtesy, No Time For Poverty