Baby Chamaelle was fighting for her life

When a baby is born premature in Haiti, medical care options are limited. The closest neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) is more than an hour away from our campus, and public hospitals don’t have a NICU or the specialized equipment needed to help these little ones survive.

Imagine the fear one young mother felt when she went into labor at just 26 weeks. Her only option was a public hospital, but she knew her baby might not survive. Her daughter, Chamaelle, came into the world weighing only 2 pounds and struggling to breathe. The mother was immediately referred to Danita’s Children Pediatric Hospital and arrived on a motorcycle taxi clutching her
newborn baby.

In spring 2021, we asked you to help build our NICU. Many of you supported that project through your gifts and prayers. By God’s grace, we’ve completed the construction of the NICU and the 10 stations! We are beyond grateful. Now, we are shifting our focus to providing the quality care these babies deserve. Your generosity gives babies like Chamaelle a fighting chance. By adding the neonatal unit to our hospital, we can now provide the specialized care our tiniest patients need to survive.

Will you prayerfully consider helping equip our NICU with the medicine, supplies and staff needed to serve these children? The startup monthly cost is $11,500. We also need four Bubble CPAP machines at $3,000 each, so a one-time cost of $12,000. Your generosity today will save lives and give families hope tomorrow and for years to come!

Your gift will help us continue caring for babies like Chamaelle. Chamaelle stayed in our NICU for two months, where she was cared for by a loving, diligent staff. After gaining several pounds, she was discharged. While her mother arrived on our campus full of uncertainty, she left full of hope for the future. “Each day, the staff came to pray for me and my baby, and I felt God’s presence,”

she said.

Thank you in advance for giving toward this critical need and joining us as we continue to serve children in Haiti.