We are happy to report some important developments in medical care for the people of Cerca Carvajal.  Dr. Job has been visiting Cerca Carvajal since June 2008 on a monthly basis, along with another Haitian doctor and two nurses.   Since July 1, 2010, he is in Cerca Carvajal three days every week!!!

We need your help to continue the progress we have begun!  Please complete the Haiti Sponsorship Pledge Form to show your support.  You can return it in the collection basket, mail it to St. Edward Human Concerns Office or email it to us.

We are happy to report some important developments in medical care for the people of Cerca Carvajal.  Dr. Job has been visiting Cerca Carvajal since June 2008 on a monthly basis, along with another Haitian doctor and two nurses.   Since July 1, 2010, he is in Cerca Carvajal three days every week!!!

We need your help to continue the progress we have begun!  Please complete the Haiti Sponsorship Pledge Form to show your support.  You can return it in the collection basket, mail it to St. Edward Human Concerns Office or email it to us.

St. Edward Sponsorship program began in 2004, as a means of providing funds to our brothers and sisters in Cerca Carvajal, Haiti.  We offer five different sponsorship opportunities detailed below.  Each serves to connect our parishioners with our twin parish.  Regular updates are provided in the bulletin and in mailings to sponsors.  No matter what area you are called to support, we would like to offer you a photo of a child at Holy Family School.  We hope that you will use this photo as a reminder to pray for our brothers and sisters, as they do for us.

St. Edward Sponsorship program began in 2004, as a means of providing funds to our brothers and sisters in Cerca Carvajal, Haiti.  We offer five different sponsorship opportunities detailed below.  Each serves to connect our parishioners with our twin parish.  Regular updates are provided in the bulletin and in mailings to sponsors.  No matter what area you are called to support, we would like to offer you a photo of a child at Holy Family School.  We hope that you will use this photo as a reminder to pray for our brothers and sisters, as they do for us.

Here's how your sponsorship helps a child in need:

Sponsorship funds are pooled and used to help meet the individual and group needs of all children at Holy Family School, including children awaiting sponsorship. These funds are used to pay teachers' salaries and to help provide a nutritious lunch, possibly the only meal some children will have.  We cannot yet provide books for all of the children, but with more sponsors, we hope we can in the future.

Just select a child from our Photo Gallery and complete the Haiti Sponsorship Pledge Form.  Return the completed form in the collection basket, by mailing it to the Human Concerns Office of the Parish Center, or by emailing it.

Click here to read about children who are not so fortunate and end up in child servitude, from MSNBC.

Here's how your sponsorship helps a child in need:

Sponsorship funds are pooled and used to help meet the individual and group needs of all children at Holy Family School, including children awaiting sponsorship. These funds are used to pay teachers' salaries and to help provide a nutritious lunch, possibly the only meal some children will have.  We cannot yet provide books for all of the children, but with more sponsors, we hope we can in the future.

Just select a child from our Photo Gallery and complete the Haiti Sponsorship Pledge Form.  Return the completed form in the collection basket, by mailing it to the Human Concerns Office of the Parish Center, or by emailing it.

Click here to read about children who are not so fortunate and end up in child servitude, from MSNBC.

On a parish trip, we met with the Parish Council of Holy Family parish.  They explained their duties.  One of them was to help the poor.  Poor, we thought to ourselves, but you are poor!  Yet, their parish is concerned, as is ours, about helping those people who are in need.  Fr. Ketnet referred to them as "People without Possibilities".  He meant that they had no possibility of sustaining themselves or their children, due to physical or mental illness or disabilities.  As we collect money in our green envelopes for the needy who ask for our help at St. Edward, this sponsorship helps Fr. Ketnet to help the needy who come to his door for help.  Please complete the Haiti Sponsorship Pledge Form to show your support.  You can return it in the collection basket, mail it to St. Edward Human Concerns Office or email it to us.

On a parish trip, we met with the Parish Council of Holy Family parish.  They explained their duties.  One of them was to help the poor.  Poor, we thought to ourselves, but you are poor!  Yet, their parish is concerned, as is ours, about helping those people who are in need.  Fr. Ketnet referred to them as "People without Possibilities".  He meant that they had no possibility of sustaining themselves or their children, due to physical or mental illness or disabilities.  As we collect money in our green envelopes for the needy who ask for our help at St. Edward, this sponsorship helps Fr. Ketnet to help the needy who come to his door for help.  Please complete the Haiti Sponsorship Pledge Form to show your support.  You can return it in the collection basket, mail it to St. Edward Human Concerns Office or email it to us.