At-Risk Children Today
Our accomplishments
With the Thomas Peter Mission Society to Haiti, founded by Cornerstone Christian church, ARCF was able to renovate the “Ecole Communautaire de Marie-rose in Cape-rouge Jacmel rural Haiti to enroll 60 school age children of Cape-Rouge directly, and indirectly impacted on over 130 additional children, and family members by providing sanitary facility, clean water, food and medicines to combat malnutrition and intestinal parasites common to these family units. Although these achievements would be considered excellent performance in most times, it has become clear that more is needed to successfully address the problem that our children face today.
ARCF in partnership with One Family International “OFI”, and generous donors created a rooftop water catchment cistern of 30,000 gallons. This has resulted in plentiful water for the villagers of Cap-Roug, Jacmel. This water will serve 30 families directly and indirectly 52 more in the surrounding areas serving about 1200 people, resulted to a clean environment.
We have arranged with American Airlines’ “AA miles for Kids in Need”, the Colleyville Lyons Club, Alcon Labotory, and Bascom Palmer Eye Institute in Florida for urgent surgical procedures unavailable in Haiti, for a child that had Persistent Hyper-Plastic Primary Vitreous (PHPV) in the right eye. This happy outcome have resulted in healthy and productive live
Land acquisition for a future ARCF Village project. Our biggest challenge was to buy land to build the “Soveyo Village Outreach” a complex project. In 2008 the local government donated to ARCF the “Habitation du Géneral Jerome Maximillien Borgela” (dated1779) a flat well-drained farmland property located in Custine, a rural section of Cavaillon’s southwest Haiti.
Custine is an extremely poor village, where 35,000 people live with no public electricity, and none of it residents have running water in their homes. Their only source of water for drinking, cooking, bathing is from the “Rivière Massacre” where livestock relive themselves freely, grazing the sparse vegetation. As a result, the children suffer from intestinal parasites, stomachache, headache and malnutrition. In partnership with One Family International in August 2009 ARCF was able to build a 40,000 gallons water reservoir and water well for the villagers, the whole community rejoices.
