Our Work

In order to improve access to clean water and sanitation, World Vision continued to prioritize water, hygiene, and sanitation within its program. With only 54.4% of most vulnerable families had access to clean water in our area of operation, the objective of focusing on WASH is to reduce the prevalence of preventable diseases, improve health and nutrition conditions, and reduce child protection risk factors. As of 2018, World Vision was able to increase by 19.7% the number of the most vulnerable families that had sufficient access to water from an improved source (protected well or spring, or rainwater collection). Additionally, the proportion of the most vulnerable families using improved sanitation facilities increased by 24.7%. These improvements, among others can be attributed to various achievements:   

• More than 222,000 people (of them 15,285 school students) now have access to protected drinking water through the construction and rehabilitation of 144 infrastructures. World Vision supported with the establishment of and training for WASH committees in all new and rehabilitated water points to ensure optimal and continued functionality of water points.  
• World Vision efforts to encourage household water treatment and safe storage in communities, schools and health centers led to an additional 18,685 households treating their water with chlorine, effectively reducing the rate of waterborne diseases in the community. 
• World Vision engaged more than 72,766 people in hygiene behavior change sessions. As a result of intensive hygiene sensitization and promotion, 7,703 families set up hand-washing stations using buckets with soap and water or tippy taps built from local materials in their homes. 
• Families were able to dig their own latrines, and now 7,910 households now have access to basic sanitation facilities, reducing the number of people practicing open defecation in the community. Between 2016 and 2018, 40 communities reached open defecation free status. This accomplishment in part led to a 9.5% reduction of diarrhea prevalence within World Vision intervention areas.

Many parts of Haiti are characterized by yearly seasonal food insecurities, and whenever food insecurities occur, children are among the most impacted, especially when common negative coping strategies such as skipping meals or swapping out nutritious foods for cheaper, less nutritious foods are adopted. Thus, it is frequent to find many households not consuming diversified foods, around 38.3% have access to nutritiously diversified foods (roots and tubers, vegetables, fruits, meats).

As a result, every year, World Vision is committed to sustainably address the food insecurity issues, and complement it into its nutrition programming.  To achieve this, World Vision works with communities to: promote more diverse and sustainable agricultural livelihoods; facilitate savings and access to micro-credit to enable community members to plan ahead, and contribute subsidiary rural family income especially for the landless and women. 

From 2016 to 2018, World Vision implemented myriad activities focusing on agricultural production to ameliorate the food insecurity situations, and in doing so, there was a 25.7% increase in the proportion of households with children who were receiving minimum dietary diversity. Other key highlights include:

• 1,100 families were able to see improvement in their agricultural productions due to distribution of improved seed variety (including pigeon peas, maize, peanut, banana suckers, etc…), and trainings on improved techniques for crop productivity and profitability. Increased productivity and profitability meant that these families were not just able to increase their families’ income, but also improve dietary diversity within their households. 
• In partnership with World Food Program, World Vision delivered 2,097 Metric Tons of food (including cereals, beans, oil, peanuts and salt) to 222 schools, through the school feeding project. Therefore, we ensured that 66,600 school students had access to a hot meal when they went to school, contributing to the school retention rate, as well as improved academic performance.