Partners with Sassier Zanmi Sasye: Engendering Hope, Creating Opportunity and Improving Lives in Haiti.
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Education in Haiti
Construction of new classrooms and buildings for Haitian high school, College Pierre Toussaint, is well underway in Sassier, Haiti. Weather now permitting, dump trucks are able to reach the school and deliver concrete so that construction may resume. In these photos,...
Health Care
Haiti ranks near the bottom of almost every measure of healthcare. One of seven children die before their 5th birthday, maternal mortality rates are 10 time higher than in the US, and average life expectancy is less than 55 years (compared to nearly 80 years for many...
Special Assignment Sassier Haiti
Videographer Ofer Cohen on Special Assignment with reporter Marlie Hall following a medical mission from Maryland to Sassier, in remote area in south - western Haiti.
Education in Haiti
Education is the Number One focus of parents in the Sassier community. Even though more than half of them cannot read or write, they are willing to sacrifice much to provide their children with the opportunity to break out of the cycle of poverty by getting a good...
Who is Zanmi Sassier?
ZANMI SASYE—PARTNERS WITH SASSIER is a not for profit organization which partners with groups in the Sassier area to bring hope, create opportunity and improve lives for the 10,000 inhabitants living here in Haiti. Since 2006, we have provided or facilitated more...
Dispensary
The 10-room Clinic Ste-Anne in nearby Voldrogue was completed in September 2005. A dispensary in Sassier has operated since March 2006. Both facilities are staffed year-round by Haitian nurses and assistants.
Annual Clinics
ZANMI SASYE—PARTNERS WITH SASSIER and the local Komite Sante (health committee) have conducted a two-week clinic each March since 2005. An additional week was added in October 2007. Doctors and nurses from Port-au-Prince, Cap Haïtien, New York, Chicago, Maryland,...
The Possibilities of Education
Our students are highly motivated. They come to school every day, even when it rains. Even though the trails and roads are wet, muddy and slippery, the students make the extra effort to reach school on time. Sometimes, they remove their shoes while traveling, so that...
Community Development in Haiti
Like most of rural Haiti, the Sassier area lacks even the most basic of public services. There is no electricity, water, public transportation or similar infrastructure. Most of the area is served by only one road, which is almost impassable after heavy rains. Most...
The Gift of Education
Thank you very much for your generous support of the students of St Jean Baptiste School in Sassier, Haiti. If the distance were not so great, you would no doubt hear all the children calling out “MESI ANPIL!!” for giving them the opportunity to receive the Gift of...
Hope
Upper grade students who had no dreams of their future a few years ago now talk about “when we go to university” and play leadership roles in the local communities that made up the 35 sq mile St Jean Baptiste Parish, much of which is accessible only by foot. About 10...
Next Steps
Going forward, we plan to: expand and strengthen the dispensary and clinic programs make new efforts to prevent and eradicate disease through improved public health, sanitation, and nutrition measures, with special focus on clean water and malaria prevention, and...
Micro Credit
In 2002, ZANMI SASYE—PARTNERS WITH SASSIER's predecessor organization provided the start-up capital for Kredi Fanm, the local women’s credit cooperative. Kredi Fanm makes micro-loans to women for artisanal sewing and embroidery, animal husbandry, small-scale retail...
Community Center
ZANMI SASYE—PARTNERS WITH SASSIER has financed the construction of a community center (2004), the purchase and operation of a solar-powered communal oven (March 2005), and the purchase and installation of solar panels to generate electricity for the community center...
Agriculture
In the summer of 2006, ZANMI SASYE—PARTNERS WITH SASSIER and the Piram Agro-Forestry Cooperative launched a program to improve farming techniques, reduce deforestation, provide watershed protection through terracing and new plantings, and promote fruit and vegetable...
Next Steps
Projects in preparation will target: better agronomic practices (seeds, planting and harvesting techniques, irrigation) continued reforestation and soil improvement measures wider marketing of embroidery and other craft products programs to increase employment in and...
College Pierre Toussaint
Once 6th grade became a reality in 2006, a group of parents and faculty approached the School’s President, Fr Edner Mars, with the request that the school be expanded to include 7th grade in 2006-7, and one additional grade level in each subsequent year. This was an...
The Gift of Education
We are returning to Haiti a small portion of the gift they shared with us more than 200 years ago—the spirit, dedication and passion of Venerable Pierre Toussaint. The parish of St Jean Baptiste, founded in 1996, serves about 10,000 people over about 25 square miles...