The burned gate at the entrance of the Flereleau family's home:
Will you please prayerfully consider donating towards the purchase of a new motorcycle for Jamescy? With wire fees and taxes included we need to raise $950. If you are able to donate, you may receive a tax deduction if you donate through my ministry accountability organization, Allegro Organizational Solutions. Once all the funds necessary have been donated, I will wire the funds to Jamescy to purchase the motorcycle. This is the most secure way to get the money to him.
Here are the donation instructions for Jamescy's motorcycle:
Please prayerfully consider this request from Gessica. She has worked as a nurse at Univers Medical Centre in Ouanaminthe, Haiti for 5 years and would like to now fulfill her dream to earn her Master's Degree.
Please Contact me if you would like to discuss assisting in her education in Haiti...
Hi Mrs Marylee,
https://mailchi.mp/konbitsante/summer-newsletter?e=ee9995f90a
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This summer we sent a newsletter to our supporters with featured stories highlighting some of the work Konbit Sante has been a part of! Here are a few of the featured stories. If you would like to learn more about what we do and access the newsletter, click the button below! | |||||||||||||||||
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Ultrasound Training Program This project is currently being conducted at Unite de Lutte pour la Sante (ULS) Health Center and Serving Sante (SS) with the plan to expand to more hospitals and health centers in Cap-Haitien. The overall purpose of this project is to strengthen maternal care and outcomes. In both cases, the medical directors at the facilities identified the need for support. At ULS Health Center, this is one component of a maternal and child health project funded by a grant from the SG Foundation. The project covers comprehensive prenatal care services, including ultrasound screening for pregnant women. On the other hand, SS had been offering prenatal ultrasounds as part of routine care until a part of their machine malfunctioned last year. The equipment was made in China and they were unable to find the replacement parts. Dr. Nelly Osias, the medical director of SS, approached Konbit Sante for assistance to obtain a new machine. | |||||||||||||||||
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The ultrasound machines are donated by Humanitarian Radiology Development Corp, a non-profit organization that is led by our collaborator, Dr. Berndt Schmit. The organization donates equipment and provides training and tools for the users. The machines and screenings conducted by them, have been able to help make births safer for women and their newborn children. Data from ULS Health Center indicates they were able to conduct sixty scans from December 2020 to April 2021, and only seven of those pregnancies had fetal complications and required special health treatment. Our programs team, on the ground, is working alongside our healthcare partners and collaborators to strengthen this project. We are hopeful that this project will improve and facilitate better health outcomes for pregnant women. | |||||||||||||||||
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Alice is Kobit Sante’s Social Media and Fundraising intern for the summer of 2021. Alice is a rising junior at Bates College studying Anthropology and Religious studies. She hopes to pursue work in the non-profit field once she graduates. She stated, “Interning at Konbit Sante this summer has been an incredible opportunity. I have been able to get a taste of what a future career in the field of global health would look and feel like.” Some of her responsibilities include creating, editing, and publishing content for Konbit Sante’s social media accounts, interviewing and developing organizational profiles, and writing various pieces for the newsletters. She is also leading the efforts with our summer fundraiser, We Walk with Haiti. She has developed content for it, collaborated with team members to set up their fundraising pages, and raised funds for the walk too! While working remotely, she has been able to attend our US-based staff meetings and the Fundraising and Communications Committee meetings. She has also been working with team members individually, as it pertains to her internship role. In writing the profiles and newsletter pieces, she has had the opportunity to connect with the Haiti-based staff members to learn more about their work and the programs they operate. Alice mentioned, “One of my favorite responsibilities is talking to our partners in Haiti. Their stories are powerful and inspiring. Being involved in such a small part of the work at Konbit Sante has been a very rewarding experience for me.” We are excited to have a summer intern from Bates College and hope to continue the internship program with Bates Colleges and other nearby colleges and universities in the years to come! | |||||||||||||||||
Make Births Safe for Women This project was awarded a $15,000 grant from SG Foundation last year through Konbit Sante. This has been a year-long project focused on making births safe for women and improving the health outcomes of children living in Band du Nord - a peri-urban community of 25,000 people located in the outskirts of Cap-Haitien, Haiti. This project has encompassed four interventions: prenatal clinics, mobile clinics, rally posts, and support for traditional birth attendants. Prenatal clinics provide pregnant women with basic prenatal care focused on risk identification, prevention and management of pregnancy-related complications, and health counseling. Mobile clinics occur once a month at geographically isolated, hard to reach communities. These clinics offer a range of preventive and curative services for the whole family, including screening and hospital referrals for malnourished children. These clinics also serve as vaccination sites. Finally, traditional birth attendants meet monthly with ULS Health Center nurses to receive birthing kits, discuss challenging cases, and review topics for continuing education and skill-building interventions. Traditional birth attendants also identify and refer at-risk pregnant women to ULS Health Center. This project had 4423 direct beneficiaries between December 2020 and April 2021. We estimate there were approximately 14,000 people that were indirect beneficiaries of this project. Despite some financial and political disturbances in the area, ULS Health Center continued to provide quality care and services to a significant portion of the population. | |||||||||||||||||
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Thanks be to God for His faithfulness...It is so exciting to see God move His Church to meet the needs of those around us. I am just overjoyed to see His Hand in this need!
I thank the precious hearts of my CVCA classmates and my Friends in the Ministry, who 'moved the mountain' of Jamescy's medical costs.
The funds needed are now covered and I'll be able to wire the money this week, BEFORE the doctor's deadline to pay.
What is especially GOOD is, for Jamescy to lean on the Lord for his needs; to not fret and worry, as God is teaching him to Trust in Him.
I have taught Jamescy and the other students to cover what they can so that they learn the value of things. I was pleased to get a message from a friend in the ministry yesterday that Jamescy reached out to her on his own, for help to pay for his medical needs. It's a learning curve for the students to not depend on Mrs. Marylee to do it all for them. They are learning, when possible to earn it themselves, ask family, then ask others. Life lessons - just like with our own children!
If I may now ask...now that this prayer has been answered:
Please pray for the healing and care of Jamescy's legs-that the fracture and the infection don't cause long-term or permanent damage; for Jamescy to be able to finish his Senior Graduating Project (view previous blogposts); for the doctors involved (they are weary as they are trying to meet thousands of needs - medically, spiritually, physically, mentally, emotionally); for the ministries in Haiti who tirelessly serve, through this earthquake, the weather, and the poverty.
Thank you, all. All for Him,
Marylee
Hello - I've verbally gotten the word out to many of our supporters but want to get the word out to as many people as possible.
I am in the process of raising funds for Jamescy to get his legs treated for the injuries he sustained in the recent Haiti earthquake.
As the dorm building shook all the students rushed to the stairwell to get down to the ground outside. In the surge of students Jamescy ran to the stairwell, clutching his laptop and phone. He fell, dropping his phone when he was pushed. He eventually was trampled to the point of breaking one of his legs and getting rebar in his other leg, due to the dormitory still being under construction (in Haiti, they don't generally finish a building before making use of the building). His broken leg is healing but the leg with the metal in it is infected. His phone was broken beyond repair but his laptop was spared.
We have been able to provide funds for a new phone and some of the medical treatment, but there is a balance to pay and additional medical treatment needed for the infected leg.
Thanks to some very generous people, as of last night at my 45th CVCA Class Reunion, we only need US$615.00 more to cover his immediate medical care.
Please prayerfully consider helping Jamescy as soon as possible. Thank you so much. May God bless each one of you, and meet you in your needs.
All for Him,
Marylee
You can contact me to donate directly to me so that we can wire the funds as quickly as possible, or if you want to go through the ministry's financial organization (Allegro Solutions) for tax purposes, please view the instructions on this blog's tab (click on this link):
