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Bishop
Miller Nov.
& January
Trip Report The group also delivered hygiene kits packed by many churches and granola bars to all the school children and took pictures and biosketches of teachers. The Maternal/Child Project was introduced to clinic personnel and the Matrones (lay midwives), and infant kits, home delivery kit, and medications were supplied to the clinic. In January,
Steve Smith and
Jan Byrd traveled
to Les Cayes
to visit BTI,
the Bishop Tharp
Institute also
known as the
Business and
Technical Institute,
a two-year college
program. Steve
helped write
the ERD grant
that helped build
the school but
had never seen
it completed.
Four students
from Jeannette
are now enrolled
there. Steve
and Jan also
visited Maison
de Naissance,
a modern birthing
center nearby,
and Cindy Obenhaus
from MN visited
the clinic at
Jeannette. While
in Jeannette,
Jan followed-up
on the Maternal/Child
Project and Steve
spent time with
the administrator,
Eloi, and Fr.
Lazard obtaining
information for
writing a three-year
trade school
grant. They arrived
back in Chicago
as the Bishop’s
group was arriving
in Miami. |
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