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ASAP Haiti
Community development project that includes the help of volunteers who travel together on a “work and medical mission trip”
Campaign To End Childhood Hunger (CTECH) and the Kansas Benefit Bank
Improves food security for Kansas low-income children through advocacy, education and outreach.
Faith In Action
Compassionate assistance for frail elderly living alone. You could help someone…
GoZones!
Over 1,000 youth spent time at one of our GoZones! sites
Operation Holiday
Food assistance during the holidays.
Permanent Supportive Housing
When homeless persons have stabilized…
Shelter for the Homeless
Inter-Faith Ministries provides emergency shelter for Wichita’s homeless individuals and families…
ASAP Haiti
In 1993, Inter-Faith Ministries hired a young Haitian-born researcher to study the extent of childhood hunger in Kansas. This young man, Daniel Louis, not only researched hunger in Kansas, he touched us with stories of people dying of starvation and schools closing in Haiti due to extreme poverty. Daniel’s distress over the condition of his people in Haiti was so profound that Rev. Sam Muyskens, Executive Director of Inter-Faith Ministries, and Harold Millard, of the Kansas West Conference United Methodist Volunteer in Mission program, went on a fact finding trip.
The trip led to a growing partnership with the people of the impoverished rural area of Lambert, Haiti whose homes surrounded small, struggling Evangelique Baptiste School. The partnership has developed several successful programs over the past eight years. ASAP Haiti and the people of Lambert have opened a medical clinic, constructed a Vocational School with eight classrooms, planted trees, constructed water reservoirs for the purpose of irrigation and growing fish, opened a kindergarten, initiated the administration of a nutritional feeding program, begun a micro-lending project for women, and started a solar oven factory.
ASAP Haiti is a community development project that includes the help of volunteers who travel together on a “work and medical mission trip” to the Lambert Center School and Church. The mission volunteers will be working side by side with the people of Lambert, Haiti. Teams are coordinated by experienced leaders who have been to Haiti and are dedicated to the ASAP Haiti project in Lambert. You can expect a very special experience as you share your life with fellow team members and the wonderful people of Haiti.
Lambert, a community of about 6,000 people, is located 15 miles from the city of Cap-Haïtien. Cap-Haïtien is Haiti’s second largest city and is located on the Atlantic coast. Who can go? Any individual who feels his/her talents can be used through their participation as a member of this medical/construction team. Each medical mission team will need physicians, optometrists, dentists, nurses, and others to assist. The construction team will assist the Haitian people in carpentry, gardening, painting, etc.
We are looking for people who:
- Have a flexible personality and a sense of humor
- Are prepared to experience a different culture
- Can get acquainted with local customs and respect them
- Realize that people are more important than work results
- Understand that people and their cultures are very different – not inferior, only different
The total cost to join the mission is estimated to be about $1,400 which includes airfare, lodging, meals in Haiti, materials, and supplies. Contact the Project Coordinator for application procedures.
You will need nice leisure clothes for travel and after work and several changes of work clothing. Men should bring a tie for Sunday worship and ladies need a nice dress and a scarf or head covering. A passport is required. As a member of the team you will be asked to refrain from the use of tobacco and alcohol while in Haiti. Be prepared for a touch of “roughing it.”
Sponsoring a Child in Haiti
ASAP Haiti is in need of sponsors for Haitian children. The cost is $14 a month or $168 a year. The money will pay $8.00 a month for food for the child, $3.00 for uniforms, and $3.00 for the child’s education. All the children come from poor, rural families. The women of the Lambert community sew school uniforms out of donated material and re-used clothing so that no child will stay home because they do not have clothes. The government provides public schooling for only one percent of the children in Haiti. Over 60% do not attend any school. Present economic conditions in Haiti make it next to impossible for church-related schools to operate without sponsorship from abroad.
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Donations Accepted At:
Inter-Faith Ministries Office
829 N. Market St. (cash, coats, blankets, food)
Inter-Faith Inn
320 E. Central (also toiletry items and new underwear)
Donate Online (Follow links on this website)
For More Information
For more information call: 264-9303 or contact us via email.