UMVIM Haiti

11/08/2015

Have you seen our latest news?

08/06/2015

This is the story of Maureen, a sweet 3-year old girl from Haiti. Maureen came to the Eye Clinic in Petit Goave, Haiti to be treated for congenital cataracts. The problem: she needed a surgery that could not be performed in Haiti. Take a look at what happened next...

Learn more about the Eye Clinic at www.hpumc.org/haiti.

This is the story of Maureen, a sweet 3-year old girl from Haiti. Maureen came to the Eye Clinic in Petit Goave, Haiti to be treated for congenital cataracts...

03/06/2015

EMH Continues Progress in Haiti, June 2015 http://conta.cc/1Mln5Ee

Jesus said to them, "A prophet is not without honor except in his own town, among his relatives and in his own home." -- Mark 6:4     

02/06/2015

This past March Haitian youth from the village of Tapion joined a combined team of Virginia university students and UMVIM volunteers from Virginia and New York to establish two tree nurseries in Tapion and Vialet in Petit Goave Circuit, Haiti.

Tapion youth cleared the land and prepared bags of soil for the seeds at the Tapion nursery site. The youth received training based on the Trees for the Future model to provide them with skills to care for the nursery. Within three weeks, the Tapion youth had expanded the nursery to include a variety of tree seedlings that will be sold or donated to community members.

Volunteers stayed at the Vialet campus where they prepared the nursery site. Moringa oleifera seeds were planted in this nursery. Moringa seedlings will produce nutritious leaves that are valuable both as human food and forage for goats to eat.

Community members decide the strategy for distributing the seedlings. Some communities distribute to farmers to plant alongside their crops (agroforestry) while other communities may dedicate a single field to plant all the trees. As trees grow they help maintain soil, improve the environment and (some) produce income.

Written by Lauren James

15/05/2015

We need your suggestions UMVIM, please. So of the 15 sites that the EMH VIM Office has visited in the past 4 weeks, 12 of them need general, dental, and eye doctors. This seems to be a fairly common need. Please leave suggestions for service, for find additional teams, and positive ways forward, below. Your experience is a blessing.

14/05/2015

During our site visit to the Cap Haitien Circuit, we were very happy to see how much positive progress the EMH sites have made over the years. Pictured here are 2 students from a kindergarten class in Renquite, counting from 1 to 100 in French. The class is held in the EMH church during the day. A VIM team can hold teacher trainings, teach hygiene to students, and organize a scholarship fund. This location has one class of 12 students.

07/05/2015

For those God has called to positively affect education in developing countries, this project is for you. The community of Dori currently serves 300 students in our primary school with 8 teachers. The students receive lunch 3 days a week.The space for a secondary school has been constructed and provides for 9 additional classrooms. All that remains is for a roof to be funded and installed on this space.

Currently, children have no accessible secondary education in this community. Upon the addition of a roof for the secondary school, 25 students will begin their studies as the first class of the Dori Secondary School in Les Cayes.

05/05/2015

We have some updated images from Leveque to share. FUMC - Santa Monica made many wonderful advancements during their last trip. EMH VIM office will site visit Leveque tomorrow. All that is left in order to complete this church is finishing work. Many thanks and blessings for all who worked on this project over the years!

04/05/2015

This month we are very excited to update our community on opportunities to volunteer across the circuit of Les Cayes and an update on Leveque. Thank you Pastor Claude for all that you do as Circuit Superintendent of Les Cayes.

Eglise Methodiste d'Haiti is at the forefront of bettering the livelihoods of not just Methodists in country, but all persons of need in Haiti. As we systematically work to assess the country, EMH VIM will provide you with new opportunities to serve

29/04/2015

We are excited to share our Les Cayes site visit experience with you all in our May newsletter. We were able to visit 9 sites across the circuit. We assessed needs of the Methodist church and surrounding community at each site with photo, video, and interviews.

The issues we addressed range from construction to agriculture, jobs, education, health, water access and clean water. The image shared here is of two students checking on their seedlings for planting at the Salomon Agricultural Institute in Les Cayes. Salomon has 26 students, 6 professors and are doing amazing work.

22/04/2015

Construction continues for the new sanctuary at Joseph, (near Jeremie). It looks like the sanctuary including doors, windows, and pews should be complete by June 1. All that remains after that is to install the cistern and connect it to the inside toilet and to the outside toilet (The Lew with a view). via David Draeger

22/04/2015

Greetings all! I will do site visits to Jeremie, Les Cayes, and la Gonave during the next 4 weeks. We will check on current construction projects and assess needs for future work in these areas around water, agriculture, orphanages, health, and more. If you have any recommendations for needs or sites I should visit, your input would be very helpful to our planning. Sites they are farther out from the campus I will stay a few days in each and want to maximize my time there. Thank you and God bless.