Multiple views of good intentions

Posted on October 21, 2012 by Family Health Ministries under Mission Journal
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The new Fondwa school, several days before the grand opening Jeff and I both just read More Than Good Intentions: Improving the Ways the World’s Poor Borrow, Save, Farm, Learn, and Stay Healthy by Dean Karlan and Jacob Appel.  It’s a very readable book by two behavioral economists. Karlan and Appel believe thatRead More

Visiting Team Adds Interest to Our Lives

Posted on October 12, 2012 by Family Health Ministries under Mission Journal
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We were here for almost week without a single visitor, since our last guests left last Friday morning.  We’ve about run out of things to do, and the staff has been idle as well. You don’t need to mop the floors too frequently in rooms where noone has been, and Jeff andRead More

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We’d like to extend a big 😍THANK YOU😍 to everyone that supported the 2019 Gala & Silent Auction! With your help we were able to raise $55,000 to support the Carmelle Voltaire Women’s Health Center in Tom Gato. This money will go towards labor and delivery services for the women of FondwaRead More

Representatives of the UNC School of Nursing, Rhonda Lanning and Leslie Hackenbracht traveled to Haiti last week with Family Health Ministries. They were in country for the opening of the new Carmelle Voltaire Women’s Health Center. The Center saw more than 50 patients during their first 3 days of operation. It was wonderfulRead More

The Global Health PLUS (Placement of Life Changing Usable Surplus) Program, in association with Duke Global Health Institute, allowed Family Health Ministries to glean hospital equipment from inventory to use for the Carmelle Voltaire Women’s Health Center in Haiti. The mission of Duke Global Health PLUS is to make this surplus medical equipmentRead More

Join us and be a part of a global celebration of a new tradition of generosity. We have a day for giving thanks. We have a day for getting deals. Now, we have #GivingTuesday, a global day dedicated to giving back. On Tuesday, December 1, 2015, charities, families, businesses, communityRead More