Lide Haiti

HEALTH PROGRAMTo support girls healthy development, our team of nurses and health partners provide physical health, mental health, and nutrition services to all our participants. Our physical health services include: offering regular health screenings, reproductive health education, training in first aid and CPR, distribution of health kits, and promotion of activities like oral hygiene, handwashing, and food hygiene to maintain good health.Lid offers mental health supports through individualized psychological counseling to participants in need, home visits to program participants, and support calls to participants and their families.Our community food program serves hundreds of meals a week to our participants and over 4,000 a month. Our participants receive a meal on every program day, often the only meal girls will have that day. These meals are prepared locally by women in the communities and have a variety of healthy foods including vegetables, whole grains, and beans, which are all sourced locally.

PARENT AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENTBuilding relationships with participants parents and like-minded community organizations is central to our efforts to help build an ecosystem that supports gender equality in the communities where we work and is essential for the success and health of our programs. This means regularly holding spaces for parents, school principals, and community organizations working on child protection to come together and share, learn, and deepen collaboration on behalf of the girls we serve.Through these meetings, our partners feel how much we respect them and value their time and opinions and we benefit from hearing their insights and perspectives about what is working and not working. In turn, Lid has the chance to share our reflections and outline our program progress and priorities.

ART PROGRAMSGirls in Lid discover their unique voice through our arts programs, which include creative writing, theater, photography, and visual arts. These programs are designed to support girls to: foster healthy relationships, appreciate diversity, strengthen their ability to resolve conflict, and cultivate flexible thinking, adaptability, innovation, and hope. The arts also enable girls to deepen awareness of their emotions, develop a growth mindset, improve their cognition and communication skills, build their ability to problem-solve, and develop a sense of dignity and confidence in their ability to create a better world.Our arts programs become a gateway into an academic education as well as a means for improving literacy, leadership and critical thinking. And, all our arts activities incorporate values-based themes, such as compassion, service, kindness, and justice, which help adolescent girls explore the life questions that all youth face on a local and global scale.