ALTSO IN HAITI
Healing Hands For Haiti
In Haiti, ALTSO partners with Healing Hands for Haiti, an organization that is dedicated to fostering the expansion of quality rehabilitation  services for the physically disabled. It serves adults as well as children, and believes the best way to serve the people of Haiti is to enable them to serve themselves. With that intention, its program emphasizes rehabilitation education, clinical treatment, disability prevention and increasing public awareness of disabilities and rehabilitation in Haiti.
Since 1998, Healing Hands for Haiti has served thousands of Haitians through a full time rehabilitation clinic, an orthotic and prosthetic lab, wheelchair fitting and repair, school reintegration programs and a caregivers school. Haitian and foreign doctors volunteer on a part-time basis, and a full time nurse and clinical staff provide follow up care and services. Healing Hands for Haiti has grown each year, expanding into previously under-served areas through outreach clinics and by collaborating with other organizations.
 Ecole St. Vincent's
Ecole St. Vincent's is situated in a 3-storied campus in the heart of Port au Prince in Haiti. Started in 1944 for 6 students with disabilities, it now has 350 students with multiple disabilities who are given schooling, medical and dental care and food and clothing. 150 children are boarders. The campus houses offices, 16 classrooms, a music area, a medical clinic which sees 1000 pediatric cases monthly, a dental clinic, an operating theater and recovery room. There is also an eye clinic and a prosthetic workshop which A Leg To Stand On is helping support. The workshop is staffed by deaf workers and provides braces, orthoses and prosthetic devices to the children in the school and members of the general public.
* Violence Against Children, UNICEF, 2005
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