• Clinic Building Fund. A goal in the near future is to add a small addition onto the already cramped clinic so that there is more than one room for examinations. Currently all medical procedures, including TB and AIDS testing, as well as infant delivery and exams, are being done in the same room. When the clinic is overflowing, patients have to wait outside.

  If you are an individual or company that would like to donate building materials, we can ship the materials on a cargo container.

  Download our Pledge Card to make a financial donation for the Clinic Building.
  
  Or Donate Online.
  

• Computer Fund. Despite the fact that most families living in Jeannette do not have running water and electricity, they still believe education is key to overcoming poverty. Even though many of their parents cannot read or write, the youth value education. They are hungry to learn how to use computers so that they will be able to keep up with other students when they continue their education in Port-au-Prince. The Computer Fund will help purchase laptop computers for St. Marc's School. Laptops are useful because the only reliable source of electricity in Jeannette is solar power or generators, and laptops use much less electricity.

  Contact us if you or your company is getting rid of computers only a couple years old and in good working condition.

  Download our Pledge Card to make a financial donation for computers.
  
  Or Donate Online.

• Leadership Scholarship Fund. After students graduate from St. Marc's School in Jeannette many hope to continue their high school and college education in Port-au-Prince. The Leadership Scholarship Fund establishes special scholarships and housing allowances to help these future leaders to continued success.
  
  Download our Pledge Card to make a financial donation for scholarships.
  

• Partner with an Educator or Health Care Worker. We value our dedicated teachers & health care workers. A teachers make the equivalency of $88 US dollars a month. A nurse makes $103 each month. The Partner with an Educator or Health Care Worker Fund matches you with a teacher or nurse and provides the monthly financial support needed to pay their salaries. Your contribution may also provide continued educational training .
  
  
  Download our Pledge Card to make a financial donation for partnerships.

• Relief Fund. When catastrophe strikes, the Relief Fund steps in to restore and help the community in Jeannette and St. Croix Hospital in Leogane. Living in a country of political and economic instability, this program is ready to step in with assistance to provide emergency funding for doctors and equipment needed at St. Croix Hospital or food, shelter and replacement of belongings for families struggling to survive a tragedy.
  
  Download our Pledge Card to make a financial donation for the relief fund or Donate Online.

• The Gift of Water Program
  
  One of the main goals of the Haiti Project is to create better cistern water collection and purification. The Gift of Water is a user friendly water filtration system that uses interlocking five-gallon buckets which filter and remove bacteria and contaminates. Pure drinking water is essential in providing good health for the people of Jeannette.
  
  The Water Collection Fund fixes leaking cisterns, constructs new cisterns, and supplies purification buckets to families.
  
  Download our Pledge Card to make a financial donation for the Gift of Water. Or Donate Online.

• Vitamin Fund
  
  In 2002, a nutrition program was started at St. Marc's to help the community during months when crops aren't doing well & food is sparse. The program gives a chewable multivitamin to each child on school days. With more than 700 students, 13,000 vitamins are needed monthly.
  
  Download our Pledge Card to make a financial donation for Vitamins. Or Donate Online.

Trips

Skip the package tour, take a pilgrimage.

The Episcopal Diocese of Milwaukee-Haiti Project invites you to discover the spiritual richness of Haiti and its people.

When others return home with only a tan, you will come home with a life-changing experience.

Although the schedule is rigorous and the itinerary includes only basic comforts (a clean bed and good food) without luxuries (hot showers), you'll experience a genuine immersion in the Haitian culture.

We believe the greatest gift you can bring to Haiti is the desire to listen, learn and be changed by your experience. Visit the Haitian people, and let them show you a level of hospitality that will move you.

Will I be safe while I am in Haiti?
Haitian politics should not affect our trip schedule. However, everyone's safety is our first concern and trips may be canceled or postponed if we are advised. In the event of a trip cancellation, every effort will be made to reimburse funds.

Sample Itinerary:
The 10 day trip begins in Port-au-Prince with an overnight at the International Wall Guest House in dormitory style rooms. The next day, your backpack of personal items (clothes and toiletries) as well as 2 duffle bags each participant carries full of medical / school supplies are loaded into a vehicle for a long, bumpy trip to Jeannette. Although only 70-miles from Port-au-Prince, the trip takes 4-hours with a short stop in Leogane at St. Croix Hospital to drop off medical supplies.

Most of your time will be spent in a rural mountain community called Jeannette where the Haiti Project supports the community of mostly subsistent farming families. Accommodations are clean, simple and safe. We stay at the rectory in shared rooms. All the meals are carefully prepared and served by local Haitian women. Don't expect to lose weight, the food is wonderful and gives you a taste of Haitian cuisine. With an emphasis on minimal packing, clothes are hand washed by the Haitian women. Attend St. Marc's Episcopal Church for Sunday service and experience Haitian-style worship.

Throughout the week you will interact with people as you walk and work in the village. The work accomplished depends on the gifts and talents of each group. For example, some groups come as a dental or medical teams and work at the Clinic. Other groups come to do physical labor. Still others come for vision screenings or to teach English. There is usually a group that comes to celebrate the graduation of preschoolers, sixth, and ninth graders. Your day will be filled with work projects, with plenty of time to relax in the evening. You may play Uno with the Haitians, take a night hike to find tarantulas, or star gaze on the roof of the rectory (you will never see this many stars again). Read a letter written by a participant to her supporters about her experience.

Gather Supplies

You can help gather many needed items. Contact our Coordinator, Hannah Brown, and she'll tell you how / where you can drop off these supplies.

We are in constant need of:

• prescription medication
• medical supplies
• over the counter medication
• personal care items
• infant items
• & more
  
  Here's a comprehensive list of items you can collect for us.
  

  Monetary donations to buy supplies is always appreciated. Some of the Haiti Project board members have become master shoppers and know how to negotiate or find a good deal and/or buy in bulk, making the uniformity of the supplies easier to distribute.
  
  Contact our Coordinator, Hannah Brown, if you have questions about the supply list or if you would like to donate something that might not be on the list.

The Haiti Project is looking for a contact person at your church. The role of the contact person makes sure Haiti Project information is put up on a church bulletin board or placed on a table for outreach. It is an easy job, but important in helping increase the awareness of the Haiti Project. If you are interested in being the contact person for your parish, Contact our Coordinator, Hannah Brown.

Fundraising: The Haiti Project would love to have you, your church, or your organization coordinate a fundraiser to support our project. To give you some ideas, here are a few examples of what has been done in the past:

• St. Mary's Church, Dousman, holds an annual Strawberry Festival where they sell delicious strawberry desserts and Haitian arts and crafts, and raise $4000 each year.
• Holy Trinity Church, Geneva, hosted a Haitian dinner, raffle, and Caribbean music to raise $2400.
• A group of co-workers at SBC in Milwaukee held two "soup" lunches with a silent auction of Haitian art and raised $2000.
• St. James' Church, West Bend, had youths who kidnapped their rector and placed him in the basement with his cell phone. The Rev. Russ Arnett contacted family and friends to raise $700.
• Grace Church & St. Andrew's of Madison sponsored a Jazz Concert benefit & raised $2400.
  
  
  Contact our Coordinator, Hannah Brown, for fundraising ideas or to coordinate an event.