About the Haiti Project

The TRI-IHM Haiti Outreach Project was launched in 1993 by the Tri-IHM Governing Board. In 1995, the three IHM Communities began a common project of financial support for the Little Sisters of St. Therese in Haiti to assist with the their ministries in education, health care, food, and sustainable developments projects.

In 2006, Representatives from each of the three IHM congregations and the Oblate Sisters of Providence met to convene a new iteration of a common Haiti project. At the gathering, the committee members listened to each other with awe at the many other ways each congregation had already been involved with the Haitian people (in addition to support for the Little Sisters of St. Therese) dating back to 1959. Past ministries of support for the Haitian people included:

  • Twinning of schools in Miami and Haiti
  • Taking seminarians to Haiti
  • Traveling to Haiti on human rights and elections monitoring delegations with Pax Christi
  • Investing in Fonkoze
  • Teaching Haitian children living in New York
  • Working in Haiti, the Dominican Republic and the Caribbean
  • Fundraising through grant writing and "Pennies for Progress, Change for Change in Haiti" collections
  • Supporting projects of Partners in Progress in Fondwa
  • Experiencing the lives of the Haitian people first hand through individual travels