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.
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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 June 11, 2025
Rapid Response Program
- GHESKIO has served over 34,000 patients since starting the Rapid Response program.
- GHESKIO is managing more than 3,000 cases of gender-based violence and more than 2,000 people have come to us for counseling and mental health
- GHESKIO is one of the few institutions still showing up, every day, delivering life-saving care in impossible conditions.
- GHESKIO and FAES have supported displaced residents — providing cash assistance, medical care, food, and hope.
- GHESKIO is increasing the number of camps we serve with healthcare, nutrition supplements, vaccines for children, and treatment for chronic diseases.
Crisis Facts
- The number of internally displaced people has eclipsed 1.3 million people
- An increase in homeless people has jumped 24% since December
- 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.
- Less than 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
- Gangs control all the main roads in and out of the capital.
Rapid Response Program
Since the middle of April, GHESKIO’s ongoing efforts have reached more than 36,000 people. We have rehabilitated and facilitated access to safer homes for more than 2,000 families, delivered a wide range of health treatment services to more than 20,000 individuals, and provided psychological and social support to over 3,000 survivors 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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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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