General Assembly Mission Council

Agricultural Technician, Haiti

This project funds the sending and support costs of a mission worker to work the Mouvman Peyizan Papay (MPP), or Farmer's Movement of Papaye in Haiti. The mission worker acts as an international presence of solidarity with landless and small farmers in rural Haiti and accompanies MPP in its efforts to organize rural communities nationally in their struggles for survival in the midst of increasing poverty and environmental degradation. Mark Hare is currently called to this position. He is accompanied by his wife, Jenny Bent, who works with the health ministries of the Evangelical Dominican Church in the Dominican ...

Comprehensive Development Projects (CODEP)

This CODEP project provides services in health, education, agriculture, water management and reforestation in the District of Cormiers, Leogane in Haiti. It meets the short-term needs of people and provides long-term planning for improvement.

Darbonne Community Health Program, Haiti

The facilities of this program, which serves over 100,000 people, were destroyed in the January, 2010 earthquake. Funds are needed to rebuild and resupply the program, so that it can resume its mission of providing a network of village health workers, traditional birth attendants and dispensaries.

Disaster Relief--Haiti

Give by phone - call PresbyTel toll-free at (800) 872-3283.

Give by check - Please include the designated giving account number DR000064 on your check.

Individuals - Checks should be mailed to:

Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)

P.O. Box 643700

Pittsburgh, PA 15264-3700

PC(USA) Congregations - Gifts by check may be given through your normal mission giving channels or mailed to:

Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)

P.O. Box 643678

Pittsburgh, PA 15264-3678

Presbyterian Disaster Assistance is accepting funds to enable a significant response for relief and recovery efforts related to the earthquake in Haiti. Funds received into this account will supplement ...

Haiti

Before the catastrophic earthquake of January 12, 2010, Haiti was already plagued as chronically food deficient, importing more than 60 percent of the food needed to feed its population. The 2010 earthquake has intensified the poverty and hunger there. The environment is so deteriorated that drastic measures must be taken to sustain the country's population. Gifts to this account will help fund long-term recovery activities in Haiti including small sustainable agricultural initiatives and small business development.

Haiti Northern District Agricultural School

This two-year agricultural training program at St. Barnabas School teaches soil management, irrigation, use of better seeds, use of appropriate fertilizers and animal husbandry to students near Cap Haitian at Terrier Rouge.

Hospital St. Croix, Haiti

Hospital St. Croix is located in Leogane, the epicenter of the earthquake that destroyed much of the city and nearby Port au Prince in January, 2010. Much of the hospital structure was severely damaged, and the administrative building, guesthouse, and doctor's quarters were leveled by the quake. Repairs have been made to the one wing of the hospital that sustained relatively minor damage, and inpatient services are starting to resume. A long-term effort is underway to rebuild Hopital St. Croix and restore its capacity to provide essential services to the people of Leogane. Gifts to this account will support ...

La Gonave Community Health, Haiti

Located on an island 45 miles off the coast of Haiti, La Gonave was spared the devastating damage of the earthquake that struck the mainland in January, 2010. The La Gonave Community Health Program provides care at a health center and through village health workers who offer basic healthcare, nutritional education and immunizations. Midwife services are also available in the rural communities.

Partnership Facilitator, Haiti

Pix Mahler served as a Hunger Action Enabler with the Presbytery of the Peaks for 14 years before she was appointed regional liaison for Haiti. Pix serves God's mission from a U.S. home base, traveling from time to time, nurturing relationships between Presbyterians in the United States and various ministries of the PC(USA)'s partners in Haiti. She says, "I help people in the United States discover what gifts they may have that are applicable to ministry with our partners."

Peasant Movement Papaye/Agriculture

MPP Road to Life/Moringa Project in Haiti. Gifts to this account assist an integrated agricultural development project including moringa tree planting, vegetable production and animal husbandry. Mark Hare is involved with running this project.