Your generosity has allowed Family Health Ministries to flourish for 30 years!
Community Garden
Healthcare
Education
2023 FHM GALA
Thank you for putting us on your calendar for September 30, 2023. We will be celebrating 30 years in Haiti.
Specific Needs: Call to action
Financial support for our community garden, which is putting nutritious food into the community.
Financial support for nursing education. There is a shortage of health care providers and we support the nursing school in Leogane, which trains bachelor of science nurses, nurse midwives and family nurse practitioners. You can also join our Friends of Nurses of Haiti Facebook group to learn more about how FHM and FSIL are working together.
See our donate now page… Thank you.
FHM News & Updates
UN chief welcomes Kenya’s offer to `positively consider’ leading police force to combat Haiti gangs
Story by By EDITH M. LEDERER, Associated Press • 3:38 pm Click Read More then follow this link to the AP News Story
Fighting for Haiti, CBS Reports
Published July 6, 2023 by CBS News Streaming Network In July 2021, Haitian President Jovenel Moise was assassinated, leaving a power vacuum seized upon by rival gangs that now effectively run the capital city of Port-au-Prince. It’s the latest in a long history of...
U.N. appoints Ecuadorian diplomat as envoy to Haiti
(Reuters) – The United Nations has named Ecuadorian diplomat Maria Isabel Salvador as the organization’s new Special Representative to Haiti and head of the U.N. Integrated Office in Haiti (BINUH), the international body said in a statement on Wednesday. (click link...
Our Work in Haiti
At Family Health Ministries, we pursue a dream of building healthy families, and healthy communities by developing long-term relationships with people and communities’ in need’.
Children’s Programs
After the original Saint Antoine school was destroyed in the 2010 earthquake, Family Health Ministries raised $100,000 to rebuild the school. With added financial help from Partners in Progress, Heart to Heart International, and Fonkoze, the new Saint Antoine School building welcomed children back to school in October 2013.
Women’s Programs
Family Health Ministries work in women’s health is based on the priorities of the communities we serve and focuses on cervical cancer prevention and safe motherhood programs.
Family Programs
The Leogane Family Health Center is a preventative and acute healthcare complex serving those without access to health services. The center will provide healthcare, education, and research programs.
Get Involved
The greatest benefits people gain from volunteering is the satisfaction of incorporating service into their lives and making a difference in their community and country. The intangible benefits alone—such as pride, satisfaction, and accomplishment—are worthwhile reasons to serve. When we share our time and talents, we solve problems, strengthen communities, improve lives, connect to others, and transform our lives and the lives of others.
Family Health Ministries appreciates the time, talents, and support of all our volunteers. Whatever your skill set or interest, we have a volunteer opportunity for you. We want you to work where you work best!
FHM Blog
Creating a Center of Excellence
CREATING A CENTER OF EXCELLENCE by David Walmer “Is there a new way to express how we are pursuing FHM’s vision in a way that gives us a clear focus that is easy to understand?”FHM’s vision in Haiti is ‘healthy families and healthy communities’, specifically in the...
The Power of Languages
By: Sarah Beaverson When I first arrived in Haiti, I was overwhelmed by the foreign language I heard around me. I struggled to understand individuals and the Haitian Creole words being yelled across the streets. After mastering the basic “Bonjou” and “Bonswa”...
Haitian Women Helping Women
Meet Soinie. To say Soinie is an inspiration is an understatement! This determined lady is breaking the mold in order to build a better life for her family and the community of Fondwa. Soinie (pronounced swah-nee) has joined our construction crew to build FHM's...