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January 18, 2010 - Conditions after the Earthquake
January 18, 2010 - Conditions after the Earthquake
Dear Friends in USA,
I write this e-mail to you to let you know that I am alive and all my parents and my fiancee's parents are alive.
The first bulding of St Vincent is down and 6 kids and employees died in the earthquake. Now they are with me in the field of College St Pierre near the Palace. This afternoom I will have a meeting with the bishop and I plan to propose to him to let me go with all the kid to Montrouis. I hope he agrees.
We really appreciate what Bill Squire did yesterday. He came to visit us in this difficult situation. He brought some money for us and we will use this money to feed the kids during three weeks in Montrouis.
The urgent now is to feed them. We don't have any materiels (cloths, toothbrush and toothpaste, soap). After the earthquake people got into St Vincent, so they robbed all the rest of the materials left, in my office, in the dorm, in the pharmacy, in the oparating room etc....
I hope in the next day the state will be able to pull out all the wall so we can built a new wall to protect the rest of St Vincent.
Glory to God we are safe, Glory to God He keeps the children safe. May his name be glorified everywhere.
In Christ,
Sadoni
ABOUT ST. VINCENT'S CENTER FOR HANDICAPPED CHILDREN
St. Vincent’s Center for Handicapped Children was started by Sr. Joan Margaret, SSM, in 1945. At the time of its opening there was no schooling available for disabled children, who were often abandoned and left for dead. Sister Joan found such a child, a young blind baby, who had been completely abandoned and took him home to the convent. Eventually a school was established, which grew from a few children being taught under a tree to its current total of over 450 students, including 170 borders.
Students
All the students attending St. Vincent’s are handicapped in some way- blind, deaf, confined to a wheel chair, or needing crutches or braces. However, all students attend classes and are taught to work with their disabilities while continuing to achieve the education they need for future success.
Education
Academic courses are offered for the first nine years at St. Vincent’s. The courses are broken up into three cycles of three years concluding with a national exam taken at the end of a students 6th and 9th year to determine graduation from each cycle.
The students of St. Vincent’s study reading, writing, history, geography, mathematics, English, art and music. Students at St. Vincent’s have in the past taken classes at the nearby Holy Trinity Music School, and discussions are underway to establish this partnership again.
Other Services Offered At St. Vincent’s
Besides the school, St. Vincent’s also houses a medical clinic which treats about 500 patients a month, a physical therapy department, an eye clinic and the only brace shop in all of Haiti.
The brace shop at St. Vincent’s makes, and remakes, braces to order. Their current head was educated in Montreal and came home to work and serve the hundreds of handicapped Haitians who are in need of braces. Many of the workers in the brace shop are former deaf students who graduated from St. Vincent’s.
For more information and to find out how you can help, visit:
Children's Medical Mission of Haiti
http://www.cmmh.org/index.php
http://www.cmmh.org/index.php
Friends of St. Vincent's Center for Handicapped Children
http://www.friendsofstvincents.org/
http://www.friendsofstvincents.org/
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