Saving lives in Haiti – and around the globe.
For 42 years, GHESKIO’s mission of treatment, research, training and social services has been a steadfast beacon of hope and health. Despite innumerable challenges, GHESKIO has never closed its doors.
On the Frontline
GHESKIO Rapid Response to Haiti Humanitarian Crisis
Despite the violence and chaos with 80% of health clinics closed, GHESKIO stands as one of the few healthcare providers still operational in Port-au-Prince.
As of april 1, 2025
Rapid Response Program
- GHESKIO has served over 19,000 patients since starting the Rapid Response program.
- GHESKIO is one of the few institutions still showing up, every day, delivering life-saving care in impossible conditions.
- GHESKIO and FAES have supported over 600 displaced residents — providing cash assistance, medical care, food, and hope.
- GHESKIO continues to 12 camps with healthcare, nutrition supplements, vaccines for children, and treatment for chronic diseases.
Crisis Facts
- Gangs now control almost 90% of the capital
- Youth are being recruited into gangs in record numbers
- Half of all Haitians – 5.5 million people – face acute food insecurity and two million have been reduced to emergency hunger levels.
- Only half of health facilities in the capital are fully operational
- 1.2 million children are subject to the threat of armed violence
- Sexual violence against women and children is used as a weapon of psychological terror
- The number of displaced persons has well surpassed 1,000,000
- 500,000 children are displaced – a quarter suffering stunted growth due to malnutrition.
- The international airport in Port-au-Prince continues to be closed to commercial air traffic at least until June 2025.
- Gangs control all the main roads in and out of the capital.
Rapid Response Program
Since the end of May, GHESKIO’s ongoing efforts have reached more than 25,000 people, rehabilitated and facilitated access to safer homes for more than 2,000 families, delivered a wide range of health treatment services to more than 19,000 individuals, and provided psychological and social support to over 600 victims of gender-based violence and 850 individuals with PTSD.
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Your support provides medical care, food, and psychosocial services to thousands of displaced persons due to gang violence.
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Our healthcare workers are facing grave critical risks daily, but we remain committed to sustain hope for the thousands of people who have lost everything.
Dr. Jean William Pape
Founder & Executive Director of GHESKIO
52,789
Community visits with patients
189,684
Total patients served in 2024
13,385
Children in the nutritional program to treat and prevent malnutrition
352
Children attending GHESKIO’s primary school, receiving a robust education, hot meals daily and medical support
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While the tumult, brutality, and insecurity of the conflict persists indefinitely, our adolescents remain the most vulnerable. We remain unwavering in protecting their right and need for education, as well as shielding them from the threat of trauma and violence that they face every day.
Dr. Marie-Marcelle Deschamps
Deputy Executive Director of GHESKIO
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Social Services
Empowering women & children to escape poverty
We treat the whole patient, delivering support to break the generational cycle of poverty.
The Cholera Treatment Center at GHESKIO Center in downtown Port-au-Prince.
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