Posts by Friends For Health In Haiti

Ultimate Sacrifice Pilots Kory Elleby and Patrick Decker unloading cargo in Jérémie on an Agape flight. February 5, 2026 brought tragedy to our friends at Agape Flights as a cargo plane being flown by two American pilots from Jérémie to Cayes crashed in the mountains with both men losing their lives. Agape Flights delivers medications…

Construction Woes and Wins Our Spiritual and Community Center, the construction of which was started in 2020, has remained unfinished since the earthquake in August 2021. There are many logistical challenges in doing construction in Haiti, not least of which is the poor condition of the road up the mountain to Gatineau. In addition to…

new Spiritual Ministry Initiative We’re getting ready to launch a new Spiritual Ministry Initiative to make available special grant funding of up to $5000 for local Haitian churches. The funds are designed to assist with construction or repairs to their present church building or to help pay for programs or outreach efforts of the church.…

Education Instead of Bean Seeds Our Agriculture Livelihood Program took a pivot this year, providing agriculture educational sessions to farmers, rather than providing bean seeds for planting. This was designed in response to the enthusiastic participation of farmers in the education that accompanied the bean seed distribution, as it showed us that farmers really do…

KUDOS TO OUR JOHNS HOPKINS SCHOOL OF NURSING PARTNERS For many years, we have been involved with students and faculty from the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing who have been assisting us in our Water and Sanitation Program. This past year, doctoral student Temi Adebiyi, under the direction of faculty member and FHH board member…

Note From Executive Director Dr. Catherine Wolf As we begin a new year of ministry in Haiti, we want to acknowledge those who helped us finish out the previous year with enough resources to guarantee future progress. We’d like to give a huge thanks to those of you who contributed to Friends for Health in…

Expanding Our Staff We are making an effort to have our staff learn more about the basic functions of the clinic so that they can eventually take over some of these responsibilities from me (Dr. Wolf) and Cherlie. Part of this effort involves the finances of the clinic. In the past, we’ve had the registration…

Measuring the Impact of Our Programs One of our most well-appreciated community development programs is our Water and Sanitation Program, started in 2013. We have 24 volunteer Community Promoters from 12 communities doing water and hygiene education in their communities and helping people build ventilated pit latrines for sanitation. To date, we’ve helped nearly 700…

Program Update We are making an effort to have our staff learn more about the basic functions of the clinic so that they can eventually take over some of these responsibilities from me (Dr. Wolf) and Cherlie. Part of this effort involves the finances of the clinic. In the past, we’ve had the registration clerk…