Church
Groups Involved in Haiti
Listed below are a few of the organizations
that are involved in mission work in Haiti, the largest Diocese in The
Episcopal Church. If you know of any other organizations that are currently
supporting activities in Haiti, we would like to hear from you. Please
contact us to tell us about your involvement.
Diocese
of Milwaukee Haiti Project
Ginny Wolfe
judgeginny@voyager.net
The Diocese
of Milwaukee Haiti Project is a partnership between the Episcopal Diocese
of Milwaukee and the people of St. Marc’s Episcopal Church of Jeannette,
located in the southern peninsula of Haiti. The project has built two
schools for 600 students in preschool through eighth grade, a health clinic,
water cisterns, latrines, staff housing, and a rectory/community center.
Each year the project raises about $70,000 to cover the salaries for 40
employees including teachers, nurses, health care providers, and agricultural
workers. It also funds operating and expansion costs for the school, clinic,
and agricultural programs.
Colorado
Haiti Project
Pat Laudisio
419
Pine Street
Boulder, CO 80302
303-939-8851
laudisio1x@aol.com
www.coloradohaitiproject.org
The Colorado Haiti Project provides educational and medical resources
to people living in Petit-Trou de Nippe and the 275 children attending
St. Paul’s school. Each year two medical and educational teams travel
to the community to treat and care for the people.
To support the school children, Colorado Haiti Project started a Children’s
Sponsorship Program that helps cover the cost of students’ tuition,
uniforms, Creole Bibles, hot lunch program, teachers’ salaries, and
school supplies for the entire school.
Future plans of the Colorado Haiti Project include constructing a school
building and a medical clinic as well as starting an agricultural garden
project.
HELP
(Haitian Episcopal Learning Partnership)
Don Downing
5308 W. 64th Terrace
Prairie Village, KS 66208
913-432-3384
D10Downing@aol.com
HELP is an organization
of 12 Kansas City parishes partnered with 12 Haitian parishes to provide
and support ongoing medical care, education for 1,000 school children,
and agricultural projects in the southern Haitian villages. On an annual
basis, six to seven medical teams from the United States care for the
people living in these villages.
Partnership
Program
The Rev. P.J. Woodall
Agape Flights, Port-au-Prince
7990 15th Street, East
Sarasota, FL 34243
011-509-401-3501
The Partnership
Program fosters communications and sharing between churches, schools,
and individuals in the United States and Canada with Episcopalians in
Haiti. Through financial gifts, partners pay teachers’ salaries,
provide school supplies and tuition, help dig wells and build cisterns,
support medical missions, train health workers, feed the hungry, and help
construct school buildings.
Children’s
Medical Mission of Haiti
The Rev. Carter Paden
St. Peter’s Episcopal Church
848 Ashland Terrace
Chattanooga, TN 37415
423-877-2428
cpaden@cdc.net
Kathryn Bolles
(Nutrition Program)
3319 Hixsan Pike
Chattanooga, TN 37415
423-877-2147
kbolles@cmmh.org
Children’s
Medical Mission of Haiti supports the people of Haiti, especially children,
through the hospitals, schools and health centers and programs in the
Episcopal Diocese of Haiti.
St. Vincent’s School provides a place of education for handicapped
students and houses a medical clinic that treats 1,000 patients a month.
Holy Cross Hospital,
a 100-bed general hospital in Leogane, provides preventive health care
through village outpost clinics to reach people living in more remote
regions.
The Hearth Nutrition
Program/Leogane educates mothers about the health benefit of breast-feeding
their children, counsels them on nutrition, and teaches them how to prepare
wholesome meals and how to monitor their children’s weight and growth.
The AIDS Program/Leogane-provides
health care for women and children infected with HIV and/or living with
AIDS. The program also educates community health workers and leaders about
the transmission and prevention of AIDS and how to care for those living
with the disease.
Society
of St. Margaret
St. Margaret Convent
Port-au-Prince, Haiti
c/o Agape Flights
7990 15th Street, East
Sarasota, FL 34243
www.ssmbos.com
The Society
of St. Margaret is an order of Episcopal nuns whose mother house is in
Boston. The Port-au-Prince convent operates a home for older women, Foyer
Notre Dame.The Order was instrumental in establishing the Holy Trinity
Philharmonic Orchestra.
Friends
of St. Vincent’s Center for Handicapped Children
Hope Lennartz or Solange Rossignol
105 Federal Street
West Hartford, CT 06110
860-233-8366
St. James Episcopal Church
19 Walden Street
West Hartford, CT 06017
860-521-9620
The Friends of St. Vincent’s Center started in 1997 as a mission
of St. James and developed into an interfaith outreach program with its
own non-profit status. Representatives travel to Port-au-Prince twice
each year, one trip focused on medical mission, the second on educational
mission. The group raises funds, collects supplies and sends at least
two sea containers to the school each year filled with medical supplies,
personal care items, wheelchairs, clothing, canned goods and other materials.
They provide tuition reimbursement for students, and bring children in
need of specialized surgery to the U.S. for care.
www.friendsofstvincents.org