2012 HAITI SERVICE PROJECT - SUPPORT & SERVE

Character Education for Youth

• Divine Principle Seminar

• Health Education Seminar on Midwifery, High Blood Pressure, Diabetes, Infectious Diseases and Dental Hygiene

• Mobile Medical Clinic

Goal:

The primary goal of this international service learning experience is to promote world peace while allowing students and volunteers to develop and/or enhance cultural competence in providing humanitarian aid and medical care while serving and educating needy populations.

This goal will be met by students and volunteers:

1. helping provide a character education program for the youth.

2. participating in a Divine Principle Seminar.

3. participating in and supporting a seminar by Women's Federation for World Peace (WFWP) on midwifery, healthcare and dental hygiene.

4. working with the ALMEDHA and AVOMED NORD medical teams of volunteer docturs and nurses to consult patients and to help provide medicine donated by Women's Federation for World Peace.

5. visiting mayors and other political leaders to assess the real needs of the Haitian people.

6. touring museums and historical sites to understand the background and the identity of Haiti.

Introduction:

This project is our fifth annual WFWP service project to Haiti. Last year, several students from the University of South Florida and volunteers from across America went to Haiti for 7 days. They were joined by volunteers in Cap-Haitian, Haiti's second largest city, and with the help of Cap-Haitian's Mayor Fritz Joseph we held a workshop on health education (covering midwifery, high blood pressure, diabetes, infectious diseases, dental hygiene) and had a mobile medical clinic with the colunteer doctors of ALMEDHA.

This year we'll be in Cap-Haitian once again. This time, we'll be working with Rev. Alexandre Decinus. He will bring 300 youth, women leaders and other pastors to receive the character education training and the seminar on Divine Principle. He will also support our health education program as well as direct us to the area requiring help from our medical team, which is Cite Blue Hills.

Through our WFWP activities and through meeting with officials, we hope to make a difference in how Haitians live day-to-day. World peace begins on the grassroots level and we hope to effect a sustainable change in the lives of the Haitians we help, thus promoting harmony among peoples and nations.

Contact Evelyne Drake for more information at edrake82@gmail.com or call 813-528-7639.

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