Education Sponsorships
for Children, Teachers, and Nursing Students

Family Health Ministries supports a school for 550 students grades pre-K through grade 13 in the southern mountain community of Fondwa. Funds to support the school are raised through the children's education and teacher sponsorship programs.

The Ste. Antoine School before the January 12, 2010 earthquake

Earthquake Update: FHM continued to pay teachers after the January 12, 2010 earthquake until school restarted in late spring. School will continue throughout the summer months to make up for "lost time," so sponsorship funds are needed more than ever.

Students are attending class in temporary buildings and in tents. Plans are progressing for the new school. When the design is done and estimates are established, FHM will publicize the needs and help with the fundraising.

• See pictures of the earthquake damage and read a first hand account.
• See pictures of rebuilding efforts and read a reflection about the conditions in Fondwa.

Children's Sponsorships
The children's sponsorship program provides five meals a week, a contribution to teacher salaries, regular anti-parasitic medicine, daily vitamins, and an annual nutritional assessment.

Sponsors receive a picture of the child they sponsor and regular updates on the student's progress from FHM's sponsorship coordinator, Jamalyn Peigh Williamson pictured at the bottom of the page.

Teacher Sponsorships
Teacher sponsorships cover teacher salaries. Family Health Ministries provides two/thirds of the annual salaries in collaboration with Partners in Progress, who provide the other third.

FHM and PIP provide school jobs for about 60 people in Fondwa, including those who cook daily meals for the children.

Nursing Scholarships
FHM's nursing scholarship program has two purposes.

• It is designed to provide post-high school opportunities for students graduating from the Ste. Antoine School in Fondwa.
• The scholarship program will also help provide skilled nursing staff for the Leogane Family Health and Research Center. FHM is building the Leogane Family Health and Research Center about 45 minutes away from Fondwa - down the mountain on the southern coastal plain, and an hour and a half from FHM's other partner community in Blanchard, on the airport side of Port-au-Prince.

Sponsorship Payment Methods

• Pay your sponsorship using PayPal. (click on "Subscribe" or "Donate " below.)

OR

• Send your monthly or annual checks to Family Health Ministries, P.O.Box 16725, Chapel Hill, NC 27516-6725

OR

• Call the FHM office at 919-382-5500 with your credit card number, the amount, how often you wish to be charged, your expiration date and security code.
  
  

Sponsor a child at the Sainte Antoine School in Fondwa

Monthly payments of $25 each

Annual payment of $300

Monthly payments of $85 each

One-time gift to the teacher sponsorship program

Sponsor or co-sponsor a nursing student at the Haiti Nursing School in Leogane

Monthly payments of $250 each

Annual payment of $3000

Co-Sponsorship

Monthly payments of $25 each

Annual payment of $300

One-time gift to the nursing scholarship program