Neonatal Training

A second visiting team from St. Vincent's Medical Center in Jacksonville, FL provided training during their stay in Fond des Blancs. Above, Dr. Ron Carzoli and Lori Saffer, RN give instruction on Neonatal Resuscitation to St. Boniface clinical staff. A second training session covering Fluids, Electrolytes, and Nutrition Support was also given.

Jacksonville Surgical Team Visit

A surgical team from St. Vincent's Medical Center in Jacksonville, FL recently visited St. Boniface Hospital. During their stay, they performed 22 surgeries. These team visits are of great value to the people of Fond des Blancs, as many times this is the only opportunity for surgery they will have.

High Protein Biscuits

In light of the recent food crisis in Haiti, St. Boniface has received a generous donation of 200 cases of high protein biscuits from Unicef to distribute to local schools. Many children in Fond des Blancs go to school in the morning without eating, and not all of the schools are able to provide a meal during the day. It's difficult for the students to concentrate and learn when they are hungry. These supplements will be used as a high calorie snack in the schools where no meal is served. As a result, we hope to encourage high academic performances.

Hospital Expansion

Construction of a new wing for St. Boniface Hospital is underway in response to the increasing number of patients who visit St. Boniface Hospital every month. The new addition to the front of the hospital was started in February and will create new space for additional beds as well as allow for a larger, more comfortable waiting area. These pictures show the cement roof being poured and smoothed just recently.

The St. Boniface Haiti Foundation has several longtime benefactors to thank for this much needed expansion.

Bon Dlo - Good Water

A new potable water project that partners Water for Life, a local NGO, with support from Florida-based NGO, Food for the Poor, has drilled the first of five possible new wells for Fond des Blancs. The project's coordinators, the St. Boniface Haiti Foundation and RATRAP, FdB's largest peasant cooperative, hopes the new wells will save residents in central FdB the four hour round trip walk that the majority of them must make everyday to find clean drinking water.

Food for the Poor Visits FdB

Two delegates from the Florida-based NGO, Food for the Poor, accompany representatives from St. Boniface Hospital on a tour of three sites across Fond des Blancs where the hospital, in cooperation with members of the local peasant cooperative, RATRAP, have proposed to design and implement two major fish-farm projects and one major housing project.

"Fet Timoun" - A Day for the Children

Several children perform a short theater production during Fond des Blancs' first annual celebration of Haiti's National Day Against Child Servitude this past Sunday. Coordinated by St. Boniface Hospital, the community's children's rights committee, COSEDERF, and several local primary schools, the day was filled with games, prizes, and children cashing in on the opportunity to take the mic and speak for themselves.