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Salvation Army Programme
Health promotion through Child-to-Child Clubs in Haiti
This programme introduces Child-to-Child activities through clubs known as ‘Scouts for Health’. One of the centres in Port-au-Prince focuses on domestic children and another centre in Fond des Nègres targets HIV-AIDS orphans. Auxiliary nurses are the ones who are the facilitators and trainers of Child-to-Child approaches and Child-to-Child materials have been adapted and new ones created in French. Read more
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Children in Duffaiyi
A community programme sponsored by UMCOR (the United Missionaries Committee on Relief) Youth groups in North America use Child-to-Child the materials their own communities and link up with a school/community programme in Duffaiyi in which children, led by a ‘groupe de reflection’ use the approach to identify key health needs and plan and execute programmes in school and community. Later youth from US have raised money and taken part in work camps in the area.
Date: 2005
Source: UMCOR website
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Readers in Haitian Creole
A health education programme organised in Jen Rabel (in North West Haiti) by the NGO Initiative Development, with support from CARE and Agro Action Allemande (AAA), has launched a programme in 58 primary schools serving 8,731 children and aiming to retrain 243 teachers ‘selon la methode l’Enfant pur l’Enfant’ (following the Child-to-Child method) Child-to-Child material from both London and Paris is being recommended and already three readers produced by l’Enfant pour l’Enfant (Accidents, Diarrhoea and Immunisation) have been translated into Haitian Creole.
Date: 2005
Source: Reported by Inter Aide
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