The Haiti Connection

www.thehaiticonnection.org

 

The Haiti Connection is an effective, dynamic organization that provides information and support to individuals and groups who collaborate on spiritual, medical, and educational projects.

 

BBC News

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4642483.stm

BBC News reports on events in Haiti are tend to be more complete and timely than US based media. They also tend to be free from some of the influences which color U.S. press coverage. 
Diocese of Milwaukee Haiti Project
Ginny Wolfe
judgeginny@voyager.net
www.haitiproject.org/

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
St. John's Episcopal Church

1419 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.

Family Health Ministries

P.O. Box 16725

Chapel Hill, NC 27516-6725

919-932-9699

family.hm@usa.net

www.familyhm.org

 

The primary mission of FHM is to enhance the physical and spiritual family health in underserved areas. FMS supports programs in maternal and child health, education, and church development in Haiti, Guatemala, Tanzania, and North Carolina.

Episcopal Medical Missions Foundation

606 Rathervue Place

Austin, Texas 78705--3128

210-506-5649

210-558-4718 FAX

emmf@emmf.com

www.emmf.com/haiti.htm

 

The Episcopal Medical Mission Foundation organizes and augments the support of medical missionaries as they deliver medical and spiritual aid in mission stations of Honduras, Jamaica, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Nigeria and Uganda. In Haiti EMMF supports and funds the neonatal AIDS eradication program of Dr. Mc Neeley. The EMMF maintains a list of mission sites and their needs, addressing those needs whenever possible.  Volunteer teams of medical and non-medical personnel visit these mission stations periodically to offer their valuable time, talents, labor and fellowship.
 

Food for the Poor

6401 Lyons Road

Coconut Creek, FL 33073

800-427-9104

954-427-2222

www.foodforthepoor.org/

 

Food For The Poor (FFP) ministers to spiritually renew impoverished people throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. Established in 1982 as a 501(c)(3)corporation, our goals are to improve the health, economic, social and spiritual conditions of the men, women and children we serve.

Food For The Poor raises funds and provides direct relief assistance to the poor, usually by purchasing specifically requested materials and distributing them through the churches and charity organizations already operating in areas of need. In this way, the organization serves the poor with dignity and ensures the most appropriate use of donors' funds.

HELP (Haitian Episcopal Learning Partnership)
Don Downing
5308 W. 64th Terrace
Prairie Village, KS 66208
913-432-3384
D10Downing@aol.com
www.standrewkc.org/html/help.html

 

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
www.friendsofstvincents.org

 

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.