Haiti Mission

We continually strengthen and build a relationship with our twin parish of St. Michael the Archangel in Coq Chante, Haiti. We work towards supporting health care, education, water, sanitation, farm animal and other projects at our twin parish.

Our goal is to involve the parishioners of St. George in the Haiti Mission as much as possible. Throughout the year, we sponsor fund raising activities, collect items to ship to Haiti, and support dental and medical missions.  We also plan visits to the parish to offer our assistance with local projects.

If you are interested in the Haiti Mission, contact Frank Lewandowski at 716.652.3153 or email: [email protected]. 

NEWS FROM OUR HAITI MISSION!

MISSION UPDATE - MARCH 2022

1.  We will not be doing a Haiti Breakfast at St. George this year. Instead, we will do a baked goods sale and some raffles at St. George in the gathering space on the weekend of May 21 and May 22 before and after the Saturday and Sunday masses. We feel this will work better and we will have more contact with the greatest number of parishioners. We will need committee members to do some baking. We would like to have a meeting either during the week of
March 28 - April 1 or April 4-8 to start the planning for this fundraiser. Meeting would be at St. George in the parish hall at 7 pm. Please contact the parish office if you can attend the meeting and what dates would be best for you. Also, please contact us if you would be able to provide some baked goods for the sale. Thanks.

2.  Card sales continue to go very well at Nativity of Our Lord Church in Orchard Park.  Over the last three months, we received $11,185 from Nativity.  $1255 was recently sent to us in February, indicating the card sales continue to go well after the Christmas season.  Our “any occasion” cards will continue to be on sale at Nativity throughout the entire year.

3.  A recent email from the Parish Twinning Program stated that there will likely not be sea container shipment this spring. Based on this, we will not collect any supplies this winter and will hold off for now.

4. In December of 2021, we sent some funding for the purchase of goats and hand washing buckets and for the construction of latrines. 35 goats and 60 buckets were purchased. 8 latrines were constructed. (Photos below.) Funding was supplied by St. George.

5.  The attached PDF file also contains recent photos of the medical clinic. We continue to supply funding for the clinic from Nativity.  Operation of the medical clinic is going very well. Fr. Laguerre reports that some of the things they are treating are scabies, worms, respiratory infections, anemia, arthritis, tooth infections, high blood sugar and skin infections. No cases of COVID-19 have been seen. I will write something for Nativity’s bulletin.

6.  The Parish Twinning Program of the America (our parent organization) has a new website, the link is www.ptpausa.org  The Parish Twinning Program is having a national conference in Nashville August 26-28, 2022. It’s a great way to meet other parishes in the program, share experiences and learn new ways to help the Haitian people. 

7.  Please continue to pray for Haiti. Reports from Haiti advise us that the criminal gang violence continues to be very bad.
 
Thank you all for your involvement in the Haiti mission to help people of Coq Chante, Haiti.

The latest photos are in the gallery below.