ICC Receives USAID Grant To Help Rebuild Grace Children's Hospital

International Child Care (USA), Inc. is pleased to announce a new partnership with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). USAID has awarded a $400,000 grant to Grace Children’s Hospital in Port-au-Prince Haiti to help reconstruct the inpatient ward at the hospital, which suffered severe damage in the January 2010 earthquake. The grant is from the Office of American Schools and Hospitals Abroad (ASHA) program.

Kalamazoo, Mich. Sept. 23, 2010— International Child Care (USA), Inc. is pleased to announce a new partnership with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). USAID has awarded a $400,000 grant to Grace Children’s Hospital in Port-au-Prince Haiti to help reconstruct the inpatient ward at the hospital, which suffered severe damage in the January 2010 earthquake. The grant is from the Office of American Schools and Hospitals Abroad (ASHA) program.

ASHA is a program created by Congress “to assist schools, libraries, and medical centers outside the United States founded or sponsored by U.S. citizens serving as study and demonstration centers for ideas and practices of the United States.”

According to USAID, ASHA grant recipients are chosen to demonstrate U.S. advances in education and medical technology and practices. The re-built Grace Children’s Hospital will continue to provide health and wholeness for the people of Haiti, building on a foundation of more than forty years of healthcare excellence.

Grace Children’s Hospital opened in 1967 to treat children with chronic diseases like tuberculosis, and now treats hundreds of children and their families each year with inpatient and outpatient services, an eye clinic, reproductive health services, and community health programs.

For more information, please contact ICC USA at iccusa@internationalchildcare.org.