Friends of Nurses in Haiti supporting Family Health Ministries Inc
Friends of Nurses in Haiti
Friends of Nurses in Haiti supporting Family Health Ministries Inc
Why support nursing education!
Nurses and 'wannabe' nurses (nursing students) in Haiti today are running a gauntlet of gangs to get an education and serve their communities. They come from families and communities with extremely limited resources, and they keep coming. One of my favorite quotes is from “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid”. Butch (Paul Newman) says “Who are those guys?” when they are being tracked over rock. We look at these nursing students and graduate nurses and think, “Who are those guys?”. Ironically, they are people who stand up to gangs who are indiscriminately killing so that they can indiscriminately save.
How Your Support Makes a Difference!
Every $5,000 raised is enough to support one nursing student for an entire year. This includes room, board, textbooks, tuition, supplies, etc. Students travel from all over Haiti and live on campus. These students not only learn but they actively serve their communities by serving as school nurses, host summer camps for kids, create educational videos for health education and participate in community health research efforts to find ways of improving health care delivery. You can make more of an impact in the world by supporting these nursing students than almost any other investment that we can think of.
Thank you for your support!
Friends of Nurses in Haiti formed to support Haitian communities in their efforts to build and sustain healthy families!
One of the symbols of hope in Haiti are nurses. They support healthcare where systems exist, and they selflessly go into communities where there are no doctors. This is in perfect alignment with the mission ofFamily Health Ministriesto support Haitian communities in their efforts to build and sustain healthy families. FHM has had a longstanding relationship with a pioneering nursing school (FSIL) in Haiti since its inception. FSIL was the first school in Haiti to provide a bachelors of science education and the first to graduate nurse practitioners.
Since these students are actively serving the same communities that FHM supports, FHM is partnering with the Haiti Nursing Foundation to answer the prayers of these students and the communities that they serve by helping to provide scholarships. The more that serve, the more hope that they and we can instill into Haitian communities.
Family Health Ministries named its women's health center after Sister Carmelle, a nurse who went to Fondwa with Sister Simone around 1995. Before FHM built the health center, Carmelle was the sole consistent source of health care in the community. She rescued many children from malnutrition and was available 24/7. Unfortunately, Sister Carmelle contracted hepatitis C from one of her patients and developed liver cancer before she was diagnosed. Today, graduates of the FSIL nursing school are working at the Carmelle Voltaire Women's Health Center carrying on her legacy..
Thank you in advance for supporting these young people, their communities and honoring the legacy of Sister Carmelle.
