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orphanage founder Michael Geilenfeld falsely accused of abuse

orphanage founder Michael Geilenfeld falsely accused of abuse

Here is a picture of orphanage founder Michael Geilenfeld who was falsely accused of abusing children in his care.

In the late 2011, Paul Kendrick, a Maine activist for sexual abuse victims, led an email and blog campaign accusing Michael Geilenfeld, the founder of St. Joseph's Home for Boys and North Carolina-based 'Hearts with Haiti' in allegation of child abuse. He accused Geilenfeld as a serial pedophile and 'Hearts with Haiti' of refusing to do anything about him. On his claim, the Department of Homeland Security had launched an exhaustive investigation and found them to be baseless. It was found that Kendrick had never visited any of the three children's homes for disabled and disadvantaged children in Haiti run by the defendants and the jury has awarded $7 million in damages to Michael Geilenfeld and $7.5 million to the Hearts with Haiti. The false allegation had kept Geilenfeld behind the bars for 237 days and cost 'Hearts with Haiti' several million dollars in donations.

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Maternity Center Isaie Jeanty

Maternity Center Isaie Jeanty

Isaie Jeanty Women's Hospital is located in the slum of Cite Soleil. It is a maternity hospital not equipped to handle the women it admits due to a bed shortage. The hospital doesn't even have a kitchen.

Non-profit Outside the Bowl made a deal with the Haitian government to build a Super Kitchen. The government will provide the property gratis and OTB will feed hospital staff and patients as well as provide to other food programs in Cite Soleil.

Boulevard Jean-Jacques Dessalines - Port-au-Prince, Haiti
509-222-2757

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No Place Like Home Orphanage, Clercine Port-au-Prince

No Place Like Home Orphanage, Clercine Port-au-Prince

The family that prays together stays together. They also build their lives together in faith and open an orphanage to offer shelter and love to needy children--at least this family did. Jacques and Marie Alexandre both graduated in 1988 from Arlington Baptist College. They would soon found their Baptist church and minister to nearly 900 people on a weekly basis after a humble beginning from the confines of their living room. Their conversion number grew from 31, when still just a home-run project, to now nearly 5000 conversions and baptisms from 1989 to the last count in 2010.

The couple did work in the early part of the new millennium to educate and feed nearly 100 children on the island. 2010 and the January earthquake that killed so many was a pivotal year for the couple and their ministry. Both survivors, they added more Feeding Centers and schools near Petion-Ville and in Leogane. It was during this period that they opened the orphanage in the country's capital called No Place Like Home.

Just 10 minutes away from the Port-au-Prince International Airport, the orphanage currently takes care of nearly 30 children and finds itself in need of assistance to grow its number and remain sustainable. The couple currently use funds meant for construction to keep the facility operational, and count on the kindness of sponsors to keep them running. Donating to the facility attracts no administrative fees, allowing all the money given to go towards the operational costs of running the orphanage.

Address:
Clercine 14-A Impasse, Obama # 4 - Port-au-Prince
1-800-429-3369 ext. 186

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All God’s Children International

All God’s Children International

All God's Children International was started in 1991 to give care to orphans who deserve to be loved and cherished. The non-profit organization operates under an Orphan Care Program, which gives help to partner homes where children are cared for all day, an Orphan Prevention Program that seeks to help vulnerable women, widows, and children at risk to reunite and stabilize their families, and an Adoption Program which places orphans with loving families. One may contact them at 404 e. 15th, suite 14, Vancouver, WA 98663, call at 503-282-7652, or visit allgodschildren.org/

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CCCWA Adoption Services

CCCWA Adoption Services

Adopting a child from the EAC adoption agency can be a more seamless matter if one knows the criteria. Children up for adoption are over 3 months old, and they may be adopted by natives or foreigners who are either legal relatives (evidence of which must be shown), or at least nine years older than the child. Relatives over 50 may also adopt, and the families may have in their home any number of children, biological or adopted, already. You may find the EAC at 12608 Alameda Drive, Strongsville, OH 44149 or at adopt@eaci.com

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The CCAI Adoption agency

The CCAI Adoption agency

The CCAI Adoption agency was instrumental in providing care for abandoned or orphaned children throughout the years, but especially following the events of the earthquake in 2010. With international adoption services and other humanitarian aid, the agency has earned its 2013 accreditation with Haiti's main international adoption authority, IBESR as an OAA, or an Organization Approved for Adoption--a first for the country. The agency may be reached at:

Address: 6920 South Holly Circle, Centennial, Colorado 80112
Phone: 303-850-9998
Fax: 303-850-9997
Email: mail@ccaifamily.org
haitiadoption.org

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Most young children in Haiti will only see a hard life

Most young children in Haiti will only see a hard life

Here is a picture of some innocent school children in Haiti

There is one group of Haitians who doesn't believe that election in Haiti will do anything for them. This group, although considered to be the largest group of the population, has always been ignored in so many aspects. This is the group where you will find the highest rate of unemployment, the highest rates of violence, the highest rate of imprisonment and also the highest rates of death. Most of the youth in Haiti have seen a hard life. They are the youth of Haiti

As legislative, presidential, and local elections approach later in 2015, one segment of the population will not bother to show up at the ballot box, its youth.

Young people want to elect their representatives, but are aware politicians could care less about their views. They suffer more unemployment, violence, incarceration, and death than other age groups.

Haitian well-to-do and moderate-income citizens dismiss youth as thugs and think they possess little value to society.

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Newborn male circumcision, a way to fight HIV/ Aids in Haiti

Newborn male circumcision, a way to fight HIV/ Aids in Haiti

A new way to fight sexually transmitted diseases in Haiti such as HIV Aids. The introduction of newborn male circumcision.

One would think any procedure that had the promised potential to reduce the risk of HIV/AIDS by up to 60 percent would be wholeheartedly adopted by the government of Haiti. First Lady Sophia Martelly did, and thanks to the efforts of the man who convinced her, an infectious diseases physician from UCLA, Jeffrey Klausner, some Haitian doctors have been trained in the practice that had been largely left behind in the country. With a team he trained to impart the knowledge of the procedure, Klausner spearheaded the setting up of a surgical facility in the capital aimed at offering contraceptive and protective solutions.

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SOS Children's Villages in les cayes,

SOS Children's Villages in les cayes,

Here is the most recent SOS Children's Villages built in Haiti. It is located in the city of Les Cayes

SOS Children's Villages (SOSCV) will launch its newest children's village in Les Cayes in January 2015. COO Hanne Rasmussen says the new village emphasizes SOSCV's ". . . commitment to providing vulnerable children with a loving home"

SOSCV Les Cayes has been made possible by donations from its member organizations in northern Europe and the USA.

SOSCV invests in education, community and vocational training centers, as well as its other villages in Port-au-Prince and Cap-Haitien.

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Haitian mothers abandoning children in hospital in Dominican Republic

Haitian mothers abandoning children in hospital in Dominican Republic

Several cases of Haitian mothers found to be abandoning their children in hospital in Dominican Republic.

Dominican Hospitals tasked with finding Homes for Abandoned Children

Haitian mothers are deserting their children at Dominican hospitals. Arturo Grullon Hospital Director, Dr. Morel, says the hospital must take care of the children while CONANI looks for foster families or an orphanage.

She says mothers bring in a sick child, get them admitted, and then flee, never to return. She adds new policies will be implemented for Haitian mothers bringing in sick children, to stop the practice of child abandonment.

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