FHM News
Share The Love, Sponsor a Child
In celebration of Valentine’s Day 2015, Family Health Ministries announces the “Share the Love” Campaign. Our goal: to pair 14 new sponsors with 14 children at the Saint Antoine School and Fatima House Orphange (Fondwa, Haiti) by Saturday, February 14th. FHM provides...
Visiting Cap-Haïtien
I finally got a chance over the weekend to visit Cap-Haïtien. Cap-Haïtien is in the north of Haiti and has a population of just under 200,000, making it the second largest city in Haiti. You can get there by public transportation, or make the drive yourself. It's...
DGHI News: Haiti – 5 Years Post Earthquake
Five years ago yesterday, on January 12, 2010, Haiti was hit with an earthquake that measured 7.0 on the Richter scale, causing more than 230,000 deaths and displacing 1.5 million people. The past five years of aid from relief organizations and donor money has...
Service of Remembrance for Haiti Earthquake:
Monday, January 12, 2015 marks the five-year anniversary of the Haiti earthquake. Together with the Duke Haiti Lab, Duke Chapel will be hosting a worship service that Monday at 4:30 p.m. Dean Luke Powery will preach and members of the Chapel Choir will sing. In...
Durham Magazine Features FHM / Kathy Walmer
FHM's Executive Director, Kathy Walmer, is featured in the December/January issue of Durham Magazine. This edition spotlights Durham healthcare heroes in an article entitled "Why I Care". The article asks these individuals who nuture our community about their...
Breaking Ground on Women’s Health Center
On November 10th, Family Health Ministries broke ground on the Carmelle Voltaire Women's Health Center in Tombe Gato! We are so thrilled to be underway with this project with the help of Building Goodness Foundation. The center will take approximately 12-18 months to...
519 Hearts Haiti Race Raises $35k for New Women’s Health Center
On September 27, 2014, Family Health Ministries teamed up with 519 Church and local sponsors to offer a certified 10k/5k, and 1 mile family fun run along the beautiful American Tobacco Trail in Cary, NC. Over 430 folks came out to walk and run on this crisp Fall...
#GivingTuesday Dec. 2, 2014
We have a day for giving thanks. We have two for getting deals. Now, we have #GivingTuesday, a global day dedicated to giving back. On Tuesday, December 2, 2014, charities, families, businesses, community centers, and students around the world will come together for...
Roland4Fondwa Campaign
Roland Hofer raced in the "Salomon 4 Trails" race July 9-12 in Europe. In three days he will raced through the mountains of Germany, Austria and Switzerland --100 miles -- 33,000 feet of vertical climbing and 30 hours of running. Every step he took was...
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Mission Journal
Jeff’s Afternoon Adventure
Getting more fuel for the generator is not that easy. First, Jeff and Jonathas loaded an empty tank on to Jonathas' moto. Yes, at first the tank fell off. Jonathas took the tank to a gas station on the Leogane Road, and then he came back to get Jeff. When Jeff...
Nou te rive!
No new photos but we are here! Our trip went without a hitch with Emile picking us up at the airport and taking us to change money, check out "Star 2000," a grocery/housewares (and wine and liquor) store in Port-au-Prince. Many things, e.g plastic bags, plastic...
Why are we going to Haiti?
Family Health Ministries' Nancy Ferree Clark Guesthouse in Leogane, Hait Recently one of my sisters asked why we are going to Haiti. She wanted to know if it was going to be fun or if we were just going to help out. I thought it was a good question. Sugar cane field...
Getting Ready to Go
Our friend Jose Luis said he hoped we would be "pruned" in our upcoming six weeks in Haiti. Of course he was referring to John 15. The pruning has started as we have to decide what to take and what to leave at home. And, as we have looked at our garden, we realize...
Multiple views of good intentions
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...
Visiting Team Adds Interest to Our Lives
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...