In Haiti, this includes helping to fund one of the country's leading Spinal Cord Injury and Stroke Rehabilitation Centers, a respite center for children with disabilities, and a number of social inclusion projects including an inclusive sports center and Mon Bijou, a new bakery and cafe run by people with disabilities.  In Uganda we’re providing community-based rehabilitation among South Sudanese refugees, providing wheelchairs, training community rehab workers, running community events on disability inclusion and providing agriculture livelihoods for persons with disabilities displaced by the war.  

We focus on equipping and empowering inspirational local partners with training, materials, infrastructure and financial support. Together, your support can help those with disability to transform their lives.

We work in fragile countries that are prone to political instability, natural disasters and war. These events always impact the most vulnerable and HHA has been quick to respond. This has been a central part of our work since we were founded, responding to major hurricanes in Haiti since 2008, and the devastating earthquake of 2010.

Also in 2010, we responded to the Cholera epidemic in Haiti, one of the worst to hit a single country, by helping in the development of north Haiti’s largest Cholera Treatment Center, a 250-bed facility at our partner hospital, alongside an extensive community outreach program. This work in coordination with other groups helped reduce the cholera related mortality rate from 13% to less than 0.5%, saving thousands of lives.

More recently we’ve been providing emergency relief projects in Uganda and South Sudan in response to the war in South Sudan. This has included helping to tackle severe and acute malnutrition in refugee settlements, supporting persons with disabilities, and implementing a number of health and education projects. Working through our trusted local partners who have the grassroots knowledge of their communities, alongside careful coordination with government authorities and other partners, HHA remains at the forefront of emergency care in the countries we work in.

 

FACILITY BASED CARE

In 2007, HHA UK co-founded Hopital Convention Baptiste d’Haiti (HCBH), a general hospital in northern Haiti which is now one of the region's leading facilities.  HCBH is a 100+ bed hospital that is run by 300 Haitian staff and supports over 30,000 patients a year.  

In 2012 we co-founded the hospital's Maternity and Neonatal Unit which now supports over 1,600 deliveries a year, helping some of the region’s most high-risk pregnancies.  The neonatal unit is also a regional referral unit and supports over 600 babies a year, receiving premature babies from as far as 75 miles away.  The hospital also provides general and orthopedic surgery, trauma, internal medicine, rehabilitation and other clinical services.  Every day through HHA's support, HCBH provides life-saving care to those across northern Haiti.

HHA have now operate a disability care centre in BidiBidi refugee settlement, Uganda, providing prosthetic & orthotic services, wheelchairs and much more for hundreds of refugees and local Ugandans every month.

In 2023, we extended our reach into Kajo Keji, South Sudan but establishing a new community health clinic focussed around supporting the most vulnerable as refugees begin returning home. This new clinic already sees 1000 patients a month!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

COMMUNITY BASED CARE

In Haiti and Uganda, HHA supports local partners to provide effective health care and prevention for vulnerable women and children, through immunizations, health education, malnutrition treatment and the identification and referral of high risk cases that need the support of a clinic or hospital.

Our work includes empowering Community Health Agents and Traditional Birth Attendants in remote Haitian villages and equipping 3 UNHCR Refugee Settlements in Uganda with the CRADLE project which helps support the most high risk pregnancies. Every year, thousands of women and children receive critical healthcare through these efforts.