Oct 12, 2016
The below is taken from a text message from Deacon Gerry Keenan, who is on the ground in Sassier, Haiti this week as part of the Hurricane Matthew relief effort. The pictures below tell the story. Looking off the balcony of the parish house, it was as if I had...
Oct 11, 2016
The article below is taken from the front page of today’s Miami Herald. If features Concepcia Pamphile from our clinic in Sassier and the administrator of the hospital in Jeremie. As you will see, the relief effort is underway and the work that needs to be done...
Oct 6, 2016
Below are a collection of photos taken in Haiti in the aftermath of Hurricane Matthew. This is a random sampling. Most of the aerial photos are of Jeremie. Others are from a Mission Aviation Fellowship flight that surveyed from Jacmel to Jeremie. They landed in...
Oct 4, 2016
“I don’t think we will survive.” – Mondy Pamphile October 4, 2016 Deacon Gerry Keenan received this text this morning from the head of our partner organization in Haiti. He and his family are huddled in their home as 100 mile per hour winds...
Sep 7, 2016
On September 4, the new 14 room medical clinic welcomed its first patients – the culmination of a 12 year effort to bring primary medical care to Sassier, a poor community in the mountains of southwest Haiti. The Clinic’s first patient was a young boy who...
Jun 6, 2016
After several years of drought, the rains have finally returned to the greater Sassier area. The drought has resulted in five failed harvests, resulting in significant hunger for many people throughout the whole Grand Anse province, in which Sassier is located. By...