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HOW CAN I HELP
Adopt a Student Program For $300 a year, you can provide food, books, supplies and uniforms for a child to attend school for one year.
Contribute to our Estelle Schneider Haiti Endowment Fund Money from this endowment fund is used for general needs of the parish, schools, and clinic
Provide material donations Over the past several years we have collected and shipped to St. James Parish such things as paint, mechanical and carpentry tools, treadle sewing machines, bicycles, scaffolding, ladders, and generators
PROVIDE MEDICAL SUPPLIES AND EQUIPMENT There is a constant need for medical supplies to keep the clinic operating
JOIN US ON ONE OF OUR SEMI-ANNUAL MISSION TRIPS Each year we have two mission trips to St. James Parish in the fall and spring Come and join us For information contact gschroeder@evansville-diocese.org
SOME FACTS ABOUT HAITI Haiti is the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere.
80% of the population lives below the World Bank’s definition of poverty.
The average yearly income for a family in Haiti is about $300.
Most families subsist on less than $3 per day.
Haiti is the most densely populated country in the Western Hemisphere. Over 8.7 million people live in a area roughly the size of the sate of Maryland.
The average life span is 57 years of age.
Over two thirds of the adult population is unemployed.
45,000 children die each year from easily curable diseases such as dehydration, diarrhea and malnutrition.
Nearly half of the population has no health care and more than 2/3 of the population has no access to drinking water.
50% of the population is under the age of 18.
The above picture is a mural that was painted on the wall in front of St. James Parish, featuring pictures of St. Joseph and St. James Parish. The painting was designed and executed by Julie Conley during our last Mission Trip to Haiti. The words, written in Creole, speaking about the people of St. Joe and St. James being connected together in Christ Jesus.
Next Mission Trips March and April, 2010 contact Fr. Gene 963-3273 email gschroeder@evdio.org if you are interested in going
What's it like to go on a mission trip? Click here for more information
A penny a day can provide life-giving vitamins for the children of Haiti
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penny a day ($3.65/year) can purchase enough vitamins for one child for more
than a year · $11 can purchase 1000 vitamins, enough to provide for vitamins for 5 children · $55 can purchase 5000 vitamins, enough for 2 · $110 can purchase 10,000 vitamins, enough for 50 children. SEND YOUR DONATIONS TO ST. JOSEPH PARISH "HAITI VITAMINS" 6202 W. St. Joe Road, Evansville, IN 47720 For more information contact the parish office (963-3273) or email gschroeder@evdio.org
Give a child a chance. Sponsor a child's education for a year for $300
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Over twenty
years ago, the people of St. Joseph
ST. JAMES PARISH
S In the past few years, we have been able to provide a new roof on the main church; purchase a new truck which serves as the major means of transportation for the parish; and provide internet access for the parish through a satellite dish system
In
addition to the main parish church in Plaine The people of St. James Parish are able to provide only about ten percent of the money needed to operate each year and are dependent upon outside resources for meeting their remaining needs.
PARISH SCHOOLS
The primary school provides an education for 400 children, This school has benches fro the students, almost no classroom aides, other than a blackboard, no artificial lighting, and antiquated books. Instruction normally involves much verbal repetition and copying from what has been written on the blackboard.
The secondary school is in a facility
that is onl In addition to the academic instruction, the students in both the primary and secondary schools receive a hot meal at noon which is often the only food they will have for the day.
MEDICAL CLINIC With the help of Dominican Missionary Sisters, a medical clinic was established to serve the people of the Plaine du Nord area. Because of the aging and reduced population of their community, these women religious were compelled to suspend their sponsorship and oversight of the medical clinic. Since this clinic was the primary medical care facility for the 30,000+ people of the Plaine du Nord area, the people were left if no medical help.
In the past few years, St. Joseph Parish has bee Our goal is to provide the financial resources needed to secure the services of a full time physician and trained staff to serve the people. In addition, working with local pharmaceutical representatives and agencies such as the Catholic Medical Mission Board, we want to be able to provide the medicines needed to keep the clinic running.
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James Parish was founded by French missionary priests and has
served the community of Plaine du Nord for over three hundred years.
Currently there are over 10,000 parishioners in St. James Parish
led by their pastor, Fr. Alain Prophete, a priest of the Diocese of Cap
Haitien.
du Nord, Fr. Alaine
cares for three mission churches in the Plaine du Nord area. These chapels are
open-air facilities with limited resources.
St.
James Parish operates both a primary and a secondary school. Given the
high rate of illiteracy among the people, these schools provide children a
possible step up from the poverty into which they were born.
y partially constructed. The students do not have books,
There are no classroom aids other than blackboards. The school is
normally without any source of electrical power. There is a great need for
financial assistance for most of the 120 students who attend this school.
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able to breath new life into this clinic. Over that time, several
medical mission teams have been able to work for several weeks a year at the
clinic. Over 1000 people have been seen on these semi-annual trips.