Grant Spotlight: Daughters of Charity

Daughters of Charity is one of the many grantees we were able to award funding to thanks to the generous support of our Members donating to the Annual Appeal last year. This organization, based in Haiti, was awarded $10,000.00 to help infants to children in sixth grade.

The Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul maintain a school and health and nutrition center in Cite Soleil, the worst slum in Port au Prince, for children from infancy to grade six. Here, they treat infants and children suffering from severe malnutrition, feeding them breakfast and lunch, providing medical care, and educating them in their school. They also educate the children’s mothers, most of them single parents, in parenting, cooking and sewing skills.

Program Administrator Sr. Victoria Obando Pineda states, “In the health clinic they see daily 100 pregnant women and 200 children less than 5 years old, plus the students at the school and kindergarten that might be sick. From Monday to Friday, they have 50 children in the center for nutritional recuperation, and every 15 days they are tracking 80 children that are in the process of recuperation. They have monthly counseling sessions for pregnant women with HIV.”