Education

Family Health Ministries supports education for Haitians as a step in the process of improving healthcare. FHM supports the education for those in the US as a step in the process of collaboration with our Haitian partners.

• FHM and the Sainte Antoine School
  School for three years of preschool (ages 3 through 5), grades 1 - 11, Reto (grade 12) and Filo (grade 13), with sponsorship program for children and teachers. Read more about FHM's programs in Fondwa.
   
• FHM's Nursing Scholarship Program
  Three years of nursing school at Haiti's first baccalaureat nursing school, with co-sponsor and sponsorship programs that give special consideration to top graduates of Sainte Antoine School.
  
  Download a nursing program .PDF (551 kb) to share with friends and colleagues.

• FHM School Library Support
  
  FHM supports the libraries of both the Terre Noire School next door to the Blanchard Clinic. These libraries rely almost exclusively on donations of books and supplies. See the list below for needs as of August 2009.
  
  
• FHM Kreyol Lessons
  FHM also offers lessons for prospective mission trip travelers interested in learning to communicate with Haitians in their native language. Usually these classes are done for a particular trip, e.g. the spring Duke course and the Vacation Bible school trip.
  
  Contact FHM to arrange a class for your church or organization and then travel to Haiti with FHM.
   
  
  
• Duke University Courses
  • Healing in the Developing World & Care of the Underserved: A Medical and Theological Perspective
    Interdisciplinary course sponsored by FHM & offered in the Duke University School of Medicine & Divinity School [1996 - present]
    
    
  • Kreyol
    Fall 2009: French 190.01, “INTRODUCTION TO KREYOL LANGUAGE AND CULTURE”
    Prof. Gaspard Louis with Deborah Jenson, Tu/Th 1:15-2:30, Perkins 2-079

  Why do we study colonial and postcolonial history in the languages of the colonizing metropoles? Here is an opportunity to study the remarkable history of the first country where slaves rose up to end colonialism—Haiti—in the language of “contact” between Africans and Europeans, Kreyòl (“creole”). A linguistic passage between the African diaspora and European colonizers in the New World, Haitian Kreyòl features a largely French-derived vocabulary, and African-derived grammatical structures. It is spoken by 9 million Haitians, and is related to other varieties of creole around the globe.

The course provides students with introductory foundations of spoken and written Kreyòl, contextualized within a survey of Haitian culture. The language course is taught by native speaker Gaspard Louis. The component on Haitian culture, taught by Deborah Jenson, will be in English and will cover topics such as the genocide of Taino Indian culture on Hispaniola; the origins of New World creoles; the Middle Passage in Haitian vodou; libertine culture; the leaders of the Haitian Revolution; the 1915-1934 U.S. occupation of Haiti; the 1937 “Parsley Massacre” (“El Corte”) of Haitians in the Dominican Republic; duvalierism; and the fall of the Aristide government in 2004.  The course will provide linguistic and cultural background to prepare undergraduate and graduate students for service, educational, or research travel in Haiti and in Haitian diasporan communities in the U.S.

Contact Deborah Jenson at Duke for more information.



FHM School Library Support Needs
The Terre Noire Christian School in Blanchard currently has 3000 volumes. Only 1000 are ready for circulation. All record keeping is done by hand.


Most children have no access to books except for their textbooks. They are very excited to be able to read books from the school's library.

To make the library more usable, Susan Stagg, library coordinator in the US, is looking for the following items:

• Book repair tape and Tyvek stiched binder tape
• Book repair kit
• Basic office supplies including scissors, tape, sapler, glue, pens and pencils
• On-line library catalog software ( $223 from Catalog Card Creator) plus a printer and Cross Library and Inventory Software - Library 1.7 ($198).
• Plastic book boxes with lids for book circulation in classrooms
• Books for teachers including Pedagogie, phychologie, psyhologie enfantine, pedagogie prescholaire, Notre Beau Metier, Enclopedia d'ensignement and pedgogie scolaire.
• 200 children's picture books in French to create a book box of 30 books for each classroom
  ($1200 for all 200 books)
  Books from these series would be good - in French:
  • Cabane Magique (Magic Treehouse books - 35 volumes in French)
  • "Dora" (30 picture books) at amazon.fr,
  • Eric Carle and David Shannon books (such as No, David in French) , t'choupi  and Petit ours brun series from Scholatic, Canada. 
  • Je Peux Lire (I can read) series levels 1, 2, 3 (Niveau 1, 2, 3) from Scholastic Canada. 
• 100 pedagogy books and teachers guides for teachers ($2000 for the collection)
  From Amazon.fr, published by Broche, toinclude the subjects Science, Geographie, Histoire, maths, Francais, Lire e Ecrire (read and write) , grammaire, and Anglais.  These would be for levels CM 1 - 2 (cours maternelle equivalent to US Preschool), CE 1-2 (course elementaire- kindergarden and 1st grade), and levels 6ieme through 3ieme (2nd to 6th grades) 



Donations to cover the costs will be celebrated by both the teachers and the children at the Terre Noire School.