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Timeline of Successes 1984 Rev. Octave Lafontant becomes priest-in-charge at St. Marc's Church. 1986
Haiti Project
establishes partnership
between Episcopal
Diocese of Milwaukee
and St. Marc's
Jeanette. 1988 Primary building completed. Students begin using the facility. Eloi hired as school principal. Child sponsorship program begins where we pay for teacher salaries and buy school supplies with YOUR support. 1989 St. Marc's Clinic is built.
1990 Clinic opens after registered nurse and licensed practical nurse are hired to live in Jeanette and provide regular health care. American medical professionals can mentor and sponsor a Haitian Nurse.
1991 First preschool classes begin. Completion of first large, public water cistern using local men apprenticing to be masons.
1992 Construction of 60 latrines at private houses to improve sanitation conditions. Dormitory housing for teachers built. Building of Rectory started.
1993 St. Marc's first graduation of an eighth grade class. Agriculture program begins.
1992-94 U.S. Embargo. No mission trip taken for 2 years.
1995 Continuing study program for training teachers begins. The first container of supplies shipped to Haiti. Eloi, school administrator visits Wisconsin.
1996 After numerous delays, Rectory building finished as living quarters for visiting groups and small residence for the priest and other Haitian staff. Farmers' Cooperative is begun.
1997 Partnership of Episcopal missions in Haiti meet for the first time in Florida. Later this becomes the Haiti Episcopal Connection, which meets semi-annually in Haiti or Miami.
1998 Lending library begins at St. Marc's School for families that do not have books available at home. First high school classes begin. First Dental clinic is held.
1999 Current preschool building is started.
2000 Rev. Pierre Auguste replaces retired Father Lafontant as priest-in-charge at St. Marc's Church.
2002 Nutrition program to give each child a multivitamin at school begins. Second floor addition to preschool building added to house the High School.
2003 St. Marc's Clinic has a fire that destroys one room. Dr. Joanne Vincent is the first doctor to live in Jeanette and provide daily health care at the clinic.
2004 Gift of Water program started, providing clean drinking water to each family. Pere (Father) Amirold Lazard replaces Pere Pierre Auguste as priest-in-charge. Episcopal Diocese of Eau Claire joins the Milwaukee Diocese in helping the Haiti Project. Pere Lazard comes to Wisconsin for the first time.
2005 Diocese of Eau Claire officially joins the Haiti Project. Jean Marc Govain, a graduate of St. Marcs school, returns and works as the Principal. An MD provided by the Haitian Government works at the clinic. Screening and referral for surgeries is completed. Some repairs to the clinic are completed. Healthcare classes are held for the school. TB and HIV screenings are done.
2006 The security of the school is improved with a new office and storeroom. Continuing education is provided for teachers and a library with books in French. Prenatal care providing tetanus immunization & prenatal vitamins continues. The trade school project receives an initial grant. A coffee roaster/importer travels with a group to assess the feasibility of a coffee-growing/export project for Jeannette and develops plans for increasing production and export.
2007 Maternal/child health project is initiated; Emergency obstetrical care is taught to nursing students in Leogane. Networking is established with Healthy Mothers/Healthy Babies Foundation with the coordinator visiting them in Kansas City and their director visiting Jeannette. The coordinator and a co-chair visit their modern birthing center in Haiti. Antiseptic delivery kits for lay midwives and infant kits for newborns are provided. A grant from the Commission on Global Reconciliation makes it possible to provide antibiotics and medication for hypertension and postpartum hemorrhage. Test strips for checking for pre-eclampsia and gestational diabetes are also provided. Early prenatal care is increased using rice and bean distribution as incentive. A survey of coffee farmers in the Jeannette area is completed. A second coffee importer/roaster visits Jeannette and assists in buying some local coffee. The group also visits the local micro loan office and arranges a visit by their representative to facilitate formation of co-ops in Jeannette.
2008 100 additional water purifications systems added to the community giving over 500 people drinking water; Jeanette has its first “outdoor movie”. Bishop Miller, Cannon Pfaff and our treasurer travel to Jeannette and meet with the Bishop of the Diocese of Haiti. Bishop Miller’s subsequent hunger appeal raises over $20,000 to provide school lunches during times of increased hunger due to drought or hurricanes. The email newsletter is launched. The breadfruit project began. Enel Joseph --a 4th-grade teacher -- and Rodolphe Eloi --the school administrator-- celebrate 20 years of service!
2009 Vision screening & glasses and dental checkups and treatment will be part of an upcoming trip. Maison de Naissance representative meets with Haiti Project group in Madison. Launching of Singing Rooster Haitian coffee fundraiser. As of November, 2010 we've raised over $15,000 just by selling coffee. *Instead of updating this timeline, we're now posting trip reports that detail our work in Haiti. |
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