AKOUNOUKA initiated the first ever FREE CPR and Choke Rescue Training program in Haiti as a response to multiple casualties associated with emergency situations that had transpired on the island without a rapid response from the limited emergency services available. Due to widespread poverty and a lack of community resources which makes services like EMT, Fire Rescue and Ambulatory Care virtually non-existent, the response times for emergency calls can range from hours to days, leaving people in distressed situations at the mercy of their neighbors. As a result, their hopes of survival are linked directly to their neighbor's level of life-saving knowledge. In the words of one community member, at the very moment his father had unexpectedly passed away,
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"CPR? That is for the movies. They don't know that here."
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Our neighbors need this knowledge because their neighbors depend on it. As a result, AKOUNOUKA has commissioned its CPR Missionaries and are continually equipping them to go the distance into cities, mountains, villages, islands and beyond until one day, Haiti is covered with the knowledge, until every Haitian on the island has received the good news that CPR is not just for movies, it's for them, their parent, their child, their friend, their brother, their sister, their grandparents, their neighbor!
WHAT IS THE
BREATHE LIFE CAMPAIGN?
Haiti is an island wrapped by the Caribbean Ocean, with 1,100 miles of coastline and an estimated 12 million people. This country is in critical need of basic CPR training, as water safety is minimal and frequent boating transportation accidents lead to an uncalculated number of drowning victims each year. Coupled with cardiac arrests, strokes, seizures and motor vehicle accidents, the lack of widespread CPR knowledge is a contributor to the shortened life expectancy in Haiti. CPR saves lives – there’s no debate about that. In order for the masses in Haiti to be reached with CPR education and training, AKOUNOUKA has developed a strategic campaign to provide Free CPR Training for All and cover the island of Haiti with the life-changing news that it is possible to revive someone from a medical crisis using CPR. In so doing, we activate ourselves for another, promoting the true mission of “loving your neighbor like yourself”.
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COMMUNAL SECTIONS
IN HAITI NEEDING
LIFESAVING CPR KNOWLEDGE
TO PREVENT SENSELESS DEATHS
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MILLION PEOPLE WITHOUT ACCESS
TO CRITICAL RAPID EMT RESPONSE
IN CRISIS
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AKOUNOUKA
CPR MISSIONARY TEAMS
COVERING ONE COMMUNAL SECTION PER MONTH EACH
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