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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 the haiti endowment 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@evdio.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.
OF CHOLERA IN PLAINE DU NORD, HAITI Two shipments of medical supplies and water purification supplies sent to Haiti
New Chapel Dedicated Repairs made to the school that was damaged by the earthquake
Next Mission Trips April 2012 contact Fr. Gene 963-3273 email gschroeder@evdio.org if you are interested in going Click here for more information
What's it like to go on a mission trip? Click here for more information
Give a child a chance.
Sponsor a child's education for a year for $300
Over twenty years ago, the people of St. Joseph Parish were introduced to the people of St. James Parish in Haiti through the Haiti Twining Program. During the ensuing years, we have provided many things to enrich the lives of the people of St. James. In return, our lives have been richly blessed. Now we invite you to join us in this ministry
ST. JAMES PARISH St. 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 Prophet a priest of the Diocese of Cap Haitien.
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 du Nord, Fr. Alaine cares for three mission churches in the Plaine du Nord area. These chapels are open-air facilities with limited resources. 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
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
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 only 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. 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
In the past few years, St. Joseph Parish has been 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. 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.
Click here to learn what people have had to say about their mission trip experiences.
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PARISH
RESPONDS TO OUTBREAK
up from the poverty into which they were born.
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.