Healthy Births

ICC’s hope is that every mother will deliver her baby with trained support and professional care, but the reality is that many will struggle with their delivery isolated and alone. Healthy birth kits, containing a few very simple items including soap, sterile razor blades and umbilical tape, ensure that each mother had the rudimentary tools to complete a healthy birth. ICC’s goal is to provide every expectant mother in our program areas with a Healthy Birth Kit that will protect her and the newborn against the common causes of death during the delivery process.

Fèt ak Sante
Fèt ak Sante is an initiative of International Child Care to equip every mother to deliver a healthy baby and that the baby will grow up in a healthy family and community.

There are two components of Fèt ak Sante:

1. Provide every expecting mother in our program area with a healthy birth kit that will protect her and the newborn against the common causes of death during the delivery process.
2. Involve the mother and child in a Sante Fanmi, a Health Family, of neighbors, relatives and professionals who will work to ensure the child will grow up healthy.

Healthy Birth Kit
A healthy birth kit is made up of a few very simple items and sealed in an ordinary zip-lock bag. It contains new razor blades, 4X4" gauze pads, umbilical tape, soap and a nail brush. Each expecting mother in our project area will receive one of these kits.

Our hope is that each mother will deliver her baby with trained support and professional care, but the reality is that many will struggle with their delivery isolated and alone. With a birth kit, each mother has the rudimentary tools to complete a healthy birth.

Sante Fanmi
Even more critical is the "Health Family" that ICC builds around that new mother and baby. This health family ensures post-natal follow-up, inoculations, birth monitoring and accurate and complete birth records. It costs International Child Care approximately $15.00 to provide the basic care of the Sante Fanmi.

This includes:

• Pre and post-natal visits
• Community development and organizing
• Vaccinations
• Micro-enterprise activities
• Literacy training
• Growth monitoring
• Well baby clinics
• Nutrition classes
• Birth certificates and records
• Traditional Birth Attendant Training

Each Healthy Birth Kit along with the Sante Fanmi, represents one child who will enjoy a better chance of becoming a “ti chapé,” or little escapee... one who has made it past their fifth birthday. Each donation of $15.00 builds a health family that reaches from North America to the villages and slums of Haiti.

How to become a member of our Sante Fanmi