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Terre des hommes

Organization:
Facility Type: Info/Hotline
Status: Open

Address:
Les Cayes, HT 00000

Region:Sud
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Main/General Business Number: +41 58 611 06 66
Website: http://www.tdh.ch/en/

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Mission: from the website:

Terre des hommes is mobilising its forces to face the cholera epidemic. Easily treatable, with reasonably priced medicines, the mortality rate with suitable care is no more than two to three percent. However, in Haiti, more than one sick person in ten, dies… Tdh has set up measures for ...

Since its creation in 1960, the mission of Terre des hommes (Tdh) has been to come to the aid of children in need. It endeavours at all times to defend the rights of children, in times of war and natural disasters, or in less publicised situations of distress.

Today, the Terre des hommes Foundation is a significant force among children’s aid organisations in Switzerland and throughout the world. It is the largest non-governmental organisation (NGO) for children’s aid in Switzerland. Tdh has development projects and emergency relief programmes in more than 30 countries. This engagement is financed by individual and institutional donations, of which 85% flows directly into the Tdh programmes.
Core areas

The values and mission of Terre des hommes remain the same as those that founder Edmond Kaiser set down in the 1960 charter. Over the last fifty years, Terre des hommes has developed in two core areas: healthcare and child protection. Every year, Tdh offers sustainable solutions and a better future for over one million children and their relatives.
Direct aid and an ambassador for children’s rights

Terre des hommes is Switzerland’s largest private organization for children’s aid and works on two levels to help children:

* providing direct aid worldwide for children in need, whereby projects are carried out under our own management or in partnership with local organisations;

* as an ambassador for children’s rights in Switzerland and throughout the world, through campaigns that promote the fundamental rights of children or that denounce violation of these rights, in particular those contained in the Convention on the Rights of the Child adopted by the UN in 1989.

Client/Case Management Information
Contact Name:Director
EMail:info @ tdh.ch




This organization provides Temporary or Permanent Service? Temporary

Notes:

This is the TDH (Terre Des Hommes) 11/28/10 press release translated regarding HIC & the Les Cayes Cholera situation:

Progression of cholera in the department South and the city of Les Cayes call for the urgent mobilization

The situation on the front of the epidemic of Cholera in the department of the South and in particular in the town of Cayes is extremely worrying. The health services are totally obsolete while the number of cases is constantly increasing and that no major medical humanitarian agency is not present in the area. The fourth city of country does not have today treatment center at the measurement of the humanitarian crisis which is increasing.

The agglomeration of Les Cayes account a global population of more than 320'000 inhabitants. The city is significantly from the size of Cap Haitien. Urban areas are densely populated areas, the populations the poorest live in the vicinity of river mouths, without any sanitation system. With its channels of evacuation open skies and the major part of the city center located flood area to, Les Cayes presents high risk of contamination (see map DINEPA).

The number of persons contaminated in the department of the South, even if it remains in absolute terms well below the number of cases recorded in Port au Prince or in the Department of Nord, is constantly increasing. Until now, in the whole of the department, 12 outbreaks of contamination , including 5 located in the city, have been identified. Official figures state of 160 cases treated, but they are largely under-evaluated.

The health authorities have been made destitute face the outbreak program and already sorely lacking the means, human and material, to face a situation which is constantly to worsen.

Located in the enclosure of the hospital, the CTU transitional has a capacity of only 25 beds. Women, men and children do not have spaces separated. Managed by staff insufficiently trained and overloaded, missing of supervision, it saves 10 15 admissions daily since a few days. It is completely saturated. The inmates of the central prison are also referred to it.

All indicators show that the epidemic will explode in the city of Cayes. It is already beginning to strike the surrounding agglomerations. There is an urgent need for mobilization of actors medical and WASH in order to build in the shortest possible time CLC to a minimum of 100 beds, dimensioned to the needs of a city of 140 000 inhabitants and thus to avoid that the situation in South is out of control. The MINISTRY lack of means and penalty to mobilize its staff.

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3 Dec 2010 - Cholera in Haiti: Tdh mobilizes against the epidemic

Launched on Monday 29th November, the mobilization appeal of Terre des hommes against cholera has not remained unanswered. Three specialists from the Swiss Humanitarian Aid Unit (attached to the SDC) are a hand to our team against the epidemic since early December, together with the doctor already lent to Tdh by the University Hospitals of Geneva. Two other experts are expected to join soon.

In Les Cayes (South) the third city of Haiti, MSF Holland will assure the medical component of the Cholera Treatment Centre (CTC). Soon, the equipment needed to treat 2’000 sick people, requested to the SDC, will land on the island by cargo aircraft.

Michel Roulet, a pediatrician who has experienced several outbreaks in humanitarian contexts, said: “I had some concerns last month on the capacity to meet the new health crisis. I note today that Tdh teams react with skill and intelligence to care for the sick and to prevent communities. The CTC of Grand Goave, which includes a hundred beds, is remarkably conducted with the support of other NGOs.”

Tdh collaborates with Medecins du Monde, Medecins sans Frontieres and with the Haitian Ministry of Health and Population to curb the epidemic.

The World Health Organization has revised its forecast: cholera would reach up to 400’000 people by next April with a peak expected in late December. Among those people, one in twenty could die.

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Created At: Wed Dec 01 15:07:27 +0000 2010
Updated At: Sat Dec 04 21:31:44 +0000 2010
Updated By: LTel


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