我们相信孩子应该属于安全、有爱和自立的家庭，而不是孤儿院……“小脚印，大步”致力于保护海地的弱势儿童，帮助他们与家人团聚，并为他们提供资源和机会，建立一个自给自足的未来。通过加强他们的家庭单位，我们努力促进受虐待儿童的健康、自我价值和重新融入社会。我们通过与当地工作人员、当局和合作伙伴. . . .合作，尊重和重视海地的自治LFBS通过支持地方保护当局建立更强大的儿童保护机制，为已经失散或面临失散风险的弱势家庭提供支持……阅读更多我们相信孩子应该属于安全、有爱和自立的家庭，而不是孤儿院……“小脚印，大步”致力于保护海地的弱势儿童，帮助他们与家人团聚，并为他们提供资源和机会，建立一个自给自足的未来。通过加强他们的家庭单位，我们努力促进受虐待儿童的健康、自我价值和重新融入社会。我们通过与当地工作人员、当局和合作伙伴. . . .合作，尊重和重视海地的自治LFBS通过支持地方保护当局建立更强大的儿童保护网络，为失散或面临失散风险的弱势家庭赋权。家庭与家庭服务致力于通过在儿童福利和发展、家庭和社区发展、倡导儿童权利和医疗外展. . . . .方面制定方案，解决造成分离和贫穷的根本原因，从而使家庭团聚孤儿院里超过80%的孩子都有活着的家人。他们是“贫困孤儿”，因为他们的家庭负担不起照顾他们的费用而被分开。海地有750多家孤儿院，其中大多数是“营利”企业，剥削儿童以获得外国援助。据海地政府称，这些孤儿院中只有4.6%达到了最低的护理标准。 Children raised in institutions are 6 times more likely to be a victim of violence and 500 times more likely to commit suicide (compared to children raised in families). Children should not be separated from their families due to poverty. Children living in corrupt orphanages, the streets, or the restavec (modern slavery) system are all easily exploited because they have been separated from their families. However, when children are separated from their families, there is a reason for it. To truly change these children's lives we must not only reunite them with their families, but also address the issue that caused separation in the first place. This is why following up with family mediation and strengthening, while facilitating preventative efforts in vulnerable communities, is so important. . . . The secret to our work is the passion and dedication of our staff. Our team of Haitian staff continually receive training to reinforce their capacity, yet their personal investment in our work is what makes the impossible possible. We work very closely with local Haitian authorities such as Haitian Social Services (IBESR), the Child Protection Brigade of the local police (BPM), and the Ministry of Women's Rights (MCFDF). Our main focus is on family reunification of children who have been separated from their families. This includes children living in corrupt orphanages, children living in the streets, restavecs (modern slaves), victims of sexual assault, lost and abandoned children. When referred by local authorities, we receive these children in our Transitional Safehouses while their families are being traced or a long term placement (such as a foster family) is being prepared. During their temporary stay in our Transitional Safehouses, children receive nutritious meals, medical care, counselling, literacy tutoring, life skills training, and a safe space. . . Once children have been reunited with their families, we continue to follow up with them. We provide access to education, vocational skills, small businesses, agricultural development, and medical care for vulnerable families in order to empower them to care for their children, and to ensure their children have the opportunity for a brighter future. . . Together with local authorities, we facilitate community training for the prevention of violence and exploitation. We work alongside community leaders to ensure those workshops have a long lasting impact. We raise awareness globally about the value and effectiveness of deinstitutionalization, and the importance of ensuring that international aid truly helps - not harms - children. . . We have lengthy, strong and respected relationships with the people, families, communities and partners we work with. Our team is deeply invested in our work. Our staff are Haitian, led by our Cofounder/Head of Haiti Operations who lives and works alongside them. We work closely alongside local authorities such as Haitian Social Services and the Child Protection Brigade of the local police and support their initiatives. Our programs have a vast geographical reach as we follow up with families wherever they've been reunited - which has brought us to over 25 different communities across Haiti. We continually strive to improve and better serve the Haitian community - which means we are continually learning from our beneficiaries, as they are the experts on their own needs. Our intervention for each child is personalized, based on their own situation, needs and dreams. Our focus is being a catalyst for sustained change.
