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Nutrition Educating children is IAAC’s primary goal. However, children cannot be educated if they are dying of starvation. That’s why nutrition was the first program we established. Five days a week, IAAC provides a hot a meal for 500 needy children in the community of Les Cayes.
For most of those children, this is the only meal they receive for the entire day. Without the meal they receive at the center, they are unable to concentrate at school, and learning becomes impossible.
English as a foreign language, and Computer Training IAAC provides English literacy and technical skills program that will help prepare young Haitians for employment opportunities in technology in the future. This program will also connect Haitian youth to the outside world.
Dental and Medical Care
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IAAC ACCOMPLISHMENTS
2003—2009
Number of individuals served……………………15,920
Hot meals served……………………………… 3.2 million
Uniforms and school supplies provided…………...10,000
Dental procedures done…………………………… 1,056
Number girls attending vocational training……………22
Number of volunteers taken to Haiti……………..……80
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every child is a star! |
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© 2003-2009 International Alliance for the Advancement of Children. All Rights Reserved. |
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According to the UNICEF, under-nutrition has been judged to be an attributable cause for more than one third of all child deaths worldwide. Undernourished children have lowered resistance to infection and are more likely to die from common child-hood ailments like diarrheal diseases and respiratory infections. Frequent illness saps the nutritional status of those who survive, locking them into a vicious cycle of recur-ring sickness and faltering growth. Their plight is largely invisible: Three quarters of the children who die from causes related to malnutrition were only mildly or moderately undernourished, showing no outward sign of their vulnerability. That’s why at the nutrition center, IAAC gives priority to children under 5 years old. |
