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e-News: December, 2009
For truly UNIQUE gifts, we’re offering Alternative Gift-Giving where you may sponsor a Haitian Child or make a donation in the name of your loved one through the Haiti Project this Christmas. Learn about it here.
Teachers and students in Haiti often have very little in the way of materials to illustrate lessons. Thanks to all who collected large crayons for the preschool, we met our goal of over 100 packages! We also have the supplies to prepare geology kits and joint activity materials. Last year’s microscope project was a big hit with teachers and students alike. If you are interested in preparing a science kit for a classroom, contact Melanie Stewart at drmel@wi.rr.com
The Haiti Project’s on-going fundraiser offers rare & delicious Haitian Mountain Blue coffee we call Singing Rooster after the Bishop's favorite alarm clock: Big Red. By purchasing coffee through the Haiti Project, you’re investing in the economic development of a nation whose people struggle. $5.50
of EVERY bag
goes
BACK to Haiti
!! Future Goals: The long range plan for the Jeannette school compound is to unify electricity with a central generator and solar panels at the Teacher’s Dorm. A new Internet Café will be located there too. To do this, we must replace the leaky roof on the dorm with a concrete roof—a significant expense. Another area we hope to address is the addition of a second nurse at the clinic. She would live in the nurse’s residence, currently empty, which also needs a new roof. These initiatives go beyond the capacity of our annual budget, but we work and pray that these things can be accomplished to help St. Marc’s and Jeannette continue towards self-sustainability. Pray with us! Paul Farmer's Organization: Save the date: Wednesday, March 3, 2010, for a Fundraiser / Speaker from Paul Farmer's organization, Partners in Health, 7:30 pm. More details later. |
Paper Beads: from Trash to Treasure By Jan Byrd Students and teachers at St. Marc’s School were excited about the possibilities to generate income by making jewelry out of discarded poster paper. A group of college students traveled to Haiti last January and organized classes on jewelry making: rolling paper and dipping into varnish for use as "beads". Hannah Brown, who participated in the trip and jewelry seminars left fishing line and clasps for necklaces and bracelets. Finished products can be sold in Haiti as well as in the U.S. To keep the project going, we need your old posters. If you have posters, let us know. We’ll arrange to send them to Haiti.
Basic Construction of the first floor of the Trade School was completed last fall, 2008, for around $36,000 -- $30,000 from the US Oil/Schmidt Family Foundation and the rest from private contributions. When the Trade School is completed, classes in cooking, building, plumbing, and basic Computer Skills are envisioned. We need your help to complete the trade school -- wiring the trade school for electricity and building furniture. The Commission on Global Reconciliation has granted the Haiti Project $6,200 from annual Diocesan Millennium Development funds to provide electricity, to build furniture, and purchase supplies. We'll send a work group to Haiti to run wiring from the generator at the Teacher’s Dorm, Upgrade the electric service, and install wiring and fixtures at the trade school. This group will also build cutting tables and chairs/benches. Skilled (and unskilled nut eager) volunteers are needed! Contact Jan Byrd if you are interested.
November, 2009 |
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