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The Haiti Connection
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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.
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BBC News |
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. |
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Colorado Haiti Project
1419 Pine Street |
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. |
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Family Health Ministries P.O. Box 16725 Chapel Hill, NC 27516-6725 919-932-9699
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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. |
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Episcopal Medical Missions Foundation 606 Rathervue Place Austin, Texas 78705--3128 210-506-5649 210-558-4718 FAX
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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.
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Food for the Poor 6401 Lyons Road Coconut Creek, FL 33073 800-427-9104 954-427-2222
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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. |
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HELP
(Haitian Episcopal Learning Partnership)
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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. |
| 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
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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. |