New Learning Center Opens in FdB

This past Monday, the Presnor Poteau Learning Center opened its doors to its first eighty-five students. The center, which aims to provide Creole and French literacy instruction to the scores of Fond des Blancs’ residents who have not had the opportunity to attend or finish their schooling, also features individual and small group tutorials as well as a series of "practical learning" mini-courses that will dot each session. The project is a joint effort by St. Boniface and two local peasant cooperatives, known by their acronyms, RATRAP and APFB.

Making The Rounds

Geoff Preidis, a medical student and a Ph.D candidate at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, locks hands with St. Boniface staff physicians, Lami and Georges, just after morning rounds. Geoff has received special permission from Baylor to spend one of his eight-week hospital rotations here in southern Haiti. Few clinical experiences can compare with working directly with the residents of Fond des Blancs, he has said.

Visiting The Queen of Peace

St. Francois Xavier Parish's visiting seminarian, Didier Joseph (in white), visits with the lovely residents at St. Boniface's Mary Queen of Peace home for the elderly. In between his required years of philosophy and theology at the Grand Seminary in Port-au-Prince, Didier plans to visit the home regularly until he resumes his studies in late September.