The chronic food shortage in Haiti weighs heaviest on the country’s most vulnerable citizens. A nutritionally inadequate diet makes many women and children underweight, weak, and anemic. These conditions are especially dangerous for expectant mothers of which 80% lack prenatal care.

AYITI GOUVENANS and local organizations in targeted areas have launched the Enhanced Food Production Capacity Project. This program has helped many women farmers improve their living standards, nutrition, and overall health of the members of their households. Through organic vegetable gardening, raising goats, and grain production, organized market networks ensure better profits for an estimated 7,500 people each year. Additionally, the PARTNERS IN DEVELOPMENT Healthy Moms and Kids Program provides free quality healthcare to approximately 900 expectant mothers and 1,200 children each year.  This includes prenatal and neonatal visits, sick and well-child visits, vitamin supplementation, hemoglobin testing, and careful health monitoring.

Most Haitian families survive on one nutritionally unbalanced meal per day. As a result, many women, infants, and children are malnourished.