August 27, .2010
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
I would like to give you some idea about Riviere Mancelle and to thank you Riviere Mancelle is a countryside parish laying about in the Northwest of Haiti. Coming from the town of Gros Morne, people have to cross a river twenty times to get there. Only one priest (me) and two nuns work with volunteers, and catechists, members of liturgy committees, teachers…
My parish has a main church with 4 chapels and seven posts, 4 elementary schools, 2 dispensaries, 1 welcome house for visitors. We get minimal electricity at the main mission and in the dispensaries from solar panels.
Spring water is available at the main mission and all of the chapels. Three schools have sun ovens to cook lunch for school children and purify water.
Aside my current activities as priest in church, we realized from September 2009 to July 2010, the following activities in my parish:
• To build 24 rock gabions to protect the property the main mission sits on.
• To start a tree nursery at Garcin.
• To build rocket stove at Garcin for the school lunch program.
• To construct a public fountain at Danty.
• To install a sun oven at Chateau for the school lunch.\to rebuild the rectory at Riviere Mancelle, the rectory was badly damaged in the earthquake of January 12, 2010.
• To plant trees (over 1700 trees) at Delva.
• To begin to build, at Riviere Mancelle, two family houses for two families, so populous of children. One of the two old houses was badly damaged in the earthquake, the others one was not safe enough for people to live in..
• To relieve with some money survivors ( their relatives and friends) of the earthquake.( they came from Port-au-Prince, capital city.)
• To buy seeds and garden tools for the groups of planters in Danty.
• To buy medicine for the two dispensaries in Riviere Mancelle and Chateau.
Also, we continue the projects of school lunch and school children sponsorships and to help the poor and the students.
For all those realizations, we got help from you, from the Salvatorian Order, from lent collections, from a special collection in favor of survivors of the quake of January 2010, from a lady in New Hampshire, from St. Thomas, St. Andrew, and St. Gregory. Many thanks to everyone here, to all of them for supporting so much to improve my parish.
Many thanks to all the volunteers for their kindly services in favor of the people in Riviere Mancelle.
Many thanks to Fr. Jim Bretl for supporting my parish in many ways every year.
Many thanks to all those people for visiting my parish once or many times.
Many thanks to Mr. , Mrs. Bob and Denise Snyder for welcoming me so generously in their home for one and a half months( since nine years) every summer.
May God Bless you and your family.
Fr. Jadotte Joseph
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