Family Health Ministries supports programs that provide Haitian students with tools to meet tomorrows challenges. It also supports programs at Duke University that teach healing in the developing world as well as Haitian culture, history and the Creole language. Those programs include:

• 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.
• 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. 

• GLHLTH 166: Global Health and International Development Work: In the Nonprofit Sector

  COURSE DESCRIPTION:Explore issues of global health and international development work in the nonprofit sector. Topics include delivery of culturally appropriate global health assistance to low resource countries, challenges in working in developing countries, different approaches to development work, management principles of non-governmental organizations (NGO's), and monitoring and evaluation of global health program outcomes. Topics will be explored through lecture, discussion and small group work. Final class presentation and paper will focus on developing a case study centered on a select global health problem and the nonprofit organization(s) approach to delivering health care solutions.
  
  COURSE OBJECTIVES:

1. Define the complex challenges of working in low resource countries to deliver culturally appropriate health care
2. Define the role of the Nonprofit sector in working on global health issues
3. Understand the role of collaboration between different “stakeholders” in the development of health policy and programs
4. Understand the basic components essential to the organization and management of a Nonprofit organization operating in international communities
5. Understand the importance of evaluating program outcomes in global health programs
6. Evaluate a global health program using the case study approach

• Duke University: Romance Studies French 193-01, Creole/Kreyòl Studies
  Gaspard Louis with Deborah Jenson
  Tues./Thurs. 11:40-12:55, Carr 135

NEW SPRING 2011
Co-taught by a native speaker of Haitian Kreyòl and a specialist in Haitian literature and history, this course will provide students with introductory foundations of spoken and written Kreyòl, contextualized within a survey of Haitian culture.

A second semester course on Haitian Creole language and culture, taught by Haitian Creole linguist Jacques Pierre. The textbook, Ann pale Kreyòl, will be supplemented by cultural units on the history and regional identities of Haiti. Students will participate in the collaborative research and educational projects of the FHI "Haiti Lab" co-directed by professors Laurent Dubois and Deborah Jenson. Pre-requisite: Creole I or Haitian Creole for the Haitian Recovery or a comparable level of previous Creole language experience, such as Duke Engage experience in Haiti or familial background in Creole. Course taught in Creole. ICS 182C.01, AAAS 193.01.This course follows "FRENCH 110S.01 DE L'HAITI A LA NOUVELLE ORLEANS" which will not be taught in the Spring 2011 semester.

The course will provide linguistic and cultural background with a particular view to preparing undergraduate and graduate students for service, educational, or research travel in Haiti.

You can also read more about the program on the Duke Haiti Lab Kreyòl Blog at http://sites.duke.edu/kreyol/.

Contact Deborah Jensen at Duke.

• 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.