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Azile Communal at Saint Filomine, (Supported by Missionaries of the Poor), "CRO"

Main/General Business E-mail Address: (hidden)
Website: http://www.missionariesofthepoor.org/missions/haiti/cap_haitien/index.htm

Management Contact: (hidden)
Management Phone: (hidden)
Other Contacts:(hidden)

Mission: Handicapped children/adult facility

History of the Mission

In response to the appeal of then Archbishop of Cap-Haitien, Monsignor Francois Gayot, two members of the Missionaries of the Poor set foot in this impoverished nation of 8.9 million people along the Caribbean’s Greater Antilles on February 6, 1994. Brother Eugene Damasusraj, an Indian national, and Brother Louima Israel, a native of Haiti, were the ones chosen for the task of taking over the administration of the Asile Communal, a home for the homeless and abandoned elderly located close to the heart of the city of Cap-Haitien which, up until then, was under the administration of Sister Madeleine Alarie of the Missionaries of the Immaculate Conception (MIC), headquartered in Quebec, Canada. Helped with a staff of 40 lay workers, Sister Madeleine was the lone Sister left from her Congregation to have run the Home. Having aged, and due to a lack of vocations to MIC, she felt she could no longer continue caring for some 150 elderly men and women whom she (and her Sisters earlier) cared for so lovingly for almost 50 years. Turning to the Bishop, Sister Madeleine recommended the Missionaries of the Poor, two of whose members she had met in Haiti—providentially it must be—on vocation promotions.

For almost four years, the first pair of MOP men sent on this Mission stayed at Domus Marie, a house lent to them by Monsignor Gayot. Each day, they drove over to the Asile to minister to its residents alongside with Sister Madeleine who stayed on for another 4 years to facilitate its smooth transition. In the meantime, the Brothers had begun laying the foundation for what would become their first monastery in Haiti. This soon-to-be born, and subsequently named, Monastère Bon Berger, was erected at a 3-acre land adjacent to the Asile that the Haitian Government had donated. By January 1998, the new monastery was completed and blessed, thus making it possible for the Brothers to move in. Around the same time, the move from MIC to MOP-administered Asile had also become definitive.





This organization provides Temporary or Permanent Service? Temporary

Notes:

11/29/10 Email from Greg Parker CHHN Team Member
I was around Cap today. Talked with father Andrew and Sister Rosemary who are noth connected with the Azile. I am going to try and visit there tomorrow morning. The Azile’s cholera treatment is confined only to their own people. They are not receiving outsiders. What I learned from Sister Rosemary who works there daily is that the brothers were transporting all severe kids to Milot because of some connection they had made there. I told her and will discuss with them that that is too far and they need to go to the Gymnasium. This will also significantly help the issue they are stating in regards to transportation. Also the gymnasium has an area reserved just for children who have noone with them so these kids could go there. It sounds like Father Andrew wants to have a doc that could watch the sick ones there, but from a sanitation aspect and care aspect I’m not sure how good an idea this is when there is a facility nearby and medical personnel could be used at facilities seeing more patients. I will update after I visit the site tomorrow.

Also, Hannah found out that Handicap Intern'l is providing services in Cap Haitien and will get with them tomorrow.

Also, Dr. Kaplan suggested the possiblity of Healing Hands getting involved.

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11/27/10 Action for CHHN team member
Call Handicap International - Carole Dubrulle - Health/Disability Coordinator - hial.santehaiti@yahoo.fr 3491 5518
to see if can coord. transport for Cholera patients.
11/27/10 Note made by Lpar
Dr. Kaplan advised Father Andrew to only treat patients that could be treated with ORS and send the rest to the CTC's in the area. Father Andrew's response was:
The brothers are doing that already. They have been transporting the patients to nearby hospitals.
They have access to medicine and IVS..
The Brothers are understaffed now because everytime they are bringing the patients to the hospitals, some of them have to stay with the patients because they need special attention due to their handicappies (some are mentally unstable). Plus, these brothers have to tend to the facility. They do all the jobs their including feeding hundreds of handicap children and adults.
But we appreciate any helps for now.
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11/27/10 From Father Andrew
the facility is calle Azile Communal at Saint Filomine (at the back of the Catholic Church of Saint Filomine) Everyone knows the Azile there.

The contact person is Fr. Henry- he speaks english (filipino as well)..number is 34213502..

we hope to get a doctor there so we can just CONFINE the patients inside the facility..and avoid the risk of more exposure..if we can contained the patients inside the facility I think it will be helpful to the Missionaries.

if you have doctors on the ground there, let them call me at 37651324..
I am sending our parish -lone student doctor there on monday is there's a flight available.. but i will need him soon as well as cholera cases are becoming apparent in the community as well.
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11/27/10 Post for Confirmation on HEAS by Amy
Missionaries of the Poor is running a handicapped children/adult facility in Cap Haitien.
"Their center is ravaged with cholera (5 reports of death already)....a doctor will be a miracle for them!"

Sent to me from friend Fr Andrew Labatorio - 3765 1324

Can anyone on the ground call to confirm details & report back to the group?

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