ASAP Haiti

From Solar Cooking

With the help of the Wichita Downtown Rotary Club, the program has created a solar-oven assembly plant that builds ovens to replace open-fire cooking. The ovens save trees and the lungs of the women who do most of the cooking.

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.

[This text was borrowed from http://www.ifmnet.org/index.php/programs/p/asap_haiti/.]

Contents 1 News and recent developments 2 See also 3 External links 4 Contact

[edit] News and recent developments

• May 2008: Wichitans helping Haitians - The Wichita Eagle

[edit] See also

[edit] External links

• http://www.ifmnet.org/index.php/programs/p/asap_haiti

[edit] Contact

http://www.ifmnet.org/index.php/programs/p/asap_haiti