HIV/AIDS is the greatest health crisis our world faces today. In Haiti, more than 200,000 people are living with HIV/AIDS – that's 3.8% of the population. Since the mid 1990s, Grace Children´s Hospital has provided medical support and counseling to patients living with HIV.

International Child Care makes every effort to purchase items locally to stimulate the economies in Haiti and the Dominican Republic. We also try to keep our costs down by avoiding expensive overseas shipment when possible. Because of this, we are only able to accept a few specific types of donated items. Please note that the acceptance policy is subject to change at the discretion of the ICC National Directors, based on current program needs.

Items for Our Mission

Here are some of the items we can usually accept:

Empowering an entire community to care for the health of its children is powerful, effective and sustainable. International Child Care partners with the community to advance health and wellness through education, health promotion, child health clinics, immunization programs, traditional birth attendant training, literacy training, and micro-enterprise projects.

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.

At International Child Care, we believe that children can be real and effective partners in missions. To encourage this, we developed the Child to Child mission curriculum to help children become “mission minded” as they follow God’s call to serve others in love.

Each installment in the Child to Child curriculum series contains five complete lesson plans full of ideas for learning together, including:

Are you a college or high school student who wants to make a difference in the world? This is the place for you! Youth Power is a branch of International Child Care that is run by youth for youth. Youth Power members are dedicated to helping ICC with its mission by speaking to interested parties about our experiences and passion, getting other youth involved with the organization, and fundraising for Youth Power projects. We may not be able to legally own property, vote, rent a car, or attend concerts un-chaperoned, but we do have a voice and the power to help others.

People with disabilities face challenges no matter where they live, but it is especially difficult to live with a disability in developing countries like the Dominican Republic. Geographic and economic barriers make it hard for most Dominicans to access rehabilitation services, which tend to be institution-based and only affordable to wealthier families.