Maison de Naissance

Maison de Naissance is a midwifery based maternal and infant health center which provides a broad spectrum of care for mothers and infants in the remote SW community of Torbeck, Haiti. Services include prenatal, birthing, and postnatal care, family planning, STI testing and treatment (including HIV and HPV), reproductive health, well-baby care, and community health outreach. Our zone of service encompasses a very rural, remote region with a population of roughly 100,000. Service is provided at our main campus, with two very remote, outpost screening centers in otherwise difficult to access locations. (We plan to open four more of these to reach women in more difficult to access communities.)Following the 2021 assassination of the Haitian president, gangs quickly rose up to take control of the capital city, Port-au-Prince. They closed the three highways leading into the city, effectively cutting off all commerce, aside from what little could be safely shipped via small and expensive charter flights.

We recently responded to an invitation from Helping Children Worldwide to submit a grant request in support of operations at Maison de Naissance, and decided to focus on our most critical staff and program – midwives safely delivering healthy babies to healthy mothers.With these funds, not only are we confident we have the funds necessary to support our most critical services, but the funds previously designated for midwife salaries have been re-allocated to our second highest priority operating expense – medical supplies. After nearly five years of limited local resources and constant inflation, we are now fully stocked with critical supplies in reserve for any future issues with our very fragile supply chain.We are truly thankful for the support provided by Helping Children Worldwide, and hope to have an ongoing relationship for the near future and the long term, too.