{"id":1172,"date":"2026-01-05T13:51:36","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T20:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/profamil.org\/?p=1172"},"modified":"2026-01-05T13:51:36","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T20:51:36","slug":"an-urgent-plea-from-profamil-haiti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/profamil.org\/cr\/2026\/01\/05\/an-urgent-plea-from-profamil-haiti\/","title":{"rendered":"An Urgent Plea from PROFAMIL Haiti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are&nbsp;reaching out because we know you care about Haiti.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The news has been so grim \u2014 gang control of Port-au-Prince, physical and sexual violence against women and girls, hundreds of thousands displaced, an ineffective, corrupt political class, and an international community that too often looks away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But&nbsp;<strong>you can make a difference<\/strong>&nbsp;by supporting PROFAMIL, a Haitian organization that for 40 years has been delivering the highest quality sexual and reproductive health services to women and girls \u2014 in its clinics and now also in the camps of displaced persons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/profamil.org\/cr\/donate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Please give here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of PROFAMIL\u2019s donors writes:&nbsp;<em>\u201cIn a clinic in Turgeau, a neighborhood in Port-au-Prince, staff arrive before dawn. They check security updates on their phones. If it is safe, they open the door. No announcements. Only the faith that someone will come. They always do.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One clinic had to close, but three are still functioning. Staff have been displaced, some multiple times. Yet the mobile units continue with daily visits to camps around Port-au-Prince, reaching several thousand people who might otherwise have nowhere to turn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201cA father arrives with a wife in labor. A young woman has questions she dared not voice before. A teenager, displaced twice, uncertain of any place that feels like home. They come because this door has opened before. And it opens again.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Please think about giving as generously as you can to support PROFAMIL\u2019s work in this difficult time.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/profamil.org\/cr\/donate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">PLEASE GIVE HERE.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mail.google.com\/mail\/u\/0?ui=2&amp;ik=41a0f2c572&amp;attid=0.1&amp;permmsgid=msg-f:1848603618697708275&amp;th=19a78f3266fa82f3&amp;view=fimg&amp;fur=ip&amp;permmsgid=msg-f:1848603618697708275&amp;sz=s0-l75-ft&amp;attbid=ANGjdJ9bDdN73REs0yT2Dkeg5gNeC2xJ1vCQ7eh3Xot0CaLfma_KQPv45egsLakfn-leYu2H4zD7QOuF2e6uLYvxjbGZpcl9KNCMbnAwzPlKAMZhgck1SZ9KHLg9oAE&amp;disp=emb&amp;realattid=ii_mhw6wnl30&amp;zw\" alt=\"Screenshot 2025-11-12 at 7.58.42\u202fAM.jpg\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Pictured: Profamil team member instructing over 100 patients at the camp for displaced persons about the services to be provided at the October 2025 Mobile Clinic.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For more information on the critical work of PROFAMIL, please visit our&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/profamil.org\/cr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">website<\/a>, and follow PROFAMIL on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/profamilhaiti\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Instagram<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profamilhaiti\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Facebook<\/a>. We thank you for your support at this immensely challenging moment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mail.google.com\/mail\/u\/0?ui=2&amp;ik=41a0f2c572&amp;attid=0.2&amp;permmsgid=msg-f:1848603618697708275&amp;th=19a78f3266fa82f3&amp;view=fimg&amp;fur=ip&amp;permmsgid=msg-f:1848603618697708275&amp;sz=s0-l75-ft&amp;attbid=ANGjdJ_zrKf1dMVCx0QANO4zPc2DrqoBOZc3ET9_h0adnE_WdXnh60XeiqiG218BpKZuKtD6B5xT0gqkDEH1VzVFM6IeZxgf1bFNMgn0n_NiFMXB5gJ_vGWB4DKpEvU&amp;disp=emb&amp;realattid=ii_mhw6y61z1&amp;zw\" alt=\"Screenshot 2025-11-12 at 8.04.39\u202fAM.png\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Pictured: Patients receiving preventive medicine and care for ailments found most in deteriorated conditions, like the camp.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are&nbsp;reaching out because we know you care about Haiti. The news has been so grim \u2014 gang control of Port-au-Prince, physical and sexual violence against women and girls, hundreds of thousands displaced, an ineffective, corrupt political class, and an international community that too often looks away. But&nbsp;you can make a difference&nbsp;by supporting PROFAMIL, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44510995,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcUfND-iU","amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/profamil.org\/cr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/profamil.org\/cr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/profamil.org\/cr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profamil.org\/cr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44510995"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profamil.org\/cr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1172"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/profamil.org\/cr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1174,"href":"https:\/\/profamil.org\/cr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172\/revisions\/1174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/profamil.org\/cr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profamil.org\/cr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profamil.org\/cr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}