To affirm all life; to reach out to the poor, the hurting,
and the vulnerable through concrete acts of charity; to
promote awareness education for the consistent life ethic
through daily advocacy, education, compassion, and example of
personal action to the parish community and the community at
large.
Projects and programs include:
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Consistent
Life Ethic Committee
2010 Programs
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End of Life Presentation Part 1
,
Jann Armantrout, Life Issues
Coordinator for Diocese of Rochester,
October 13, 2010
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End of
Life Presentation Part
2,
Jann Armantrout, Life Issues Coordinator, Diocese of
Rochester,
October 27, 2010
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MOLST: Practicalities and Pitfalls,
John S. Sullivan, MD;
October 27, 2010
2011 Programs
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Footprint Prayer Card,
October 2, 2011
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Hospice Presentation, Theo Munson, Manager of
Caregiver and Bereavement Services,
Lifetime Care/Hospice
of Rochester,
October 4, 2011(Pending)
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Now and at the Hour of Our Death – A Catholic Guide to
End-of-Life Decision Making
,
Jann Armantrout, Life Issues Coordinator, Diocese
of Rochester,
handout, October 4, 2011
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Consistent Life Ethic
Team Suggested Resources:
For more information,
please contact
Ken Rizzuto or
Kathleen McMahon, Pastoral Associate for Social Ministry &
Justice at or 586-5675 x228.
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Legislative Action
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Pittsford Food Cupboard
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Haiti Orphans Recap
for 2010
Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2010 7:04 AM
Subject: Fundación NPH: Desde Haití y NPH, FELIZ AÑO
2010!!!.
Dear appreciated friends,
The year 2010 is coming to an end and from NPH we want to
share with you all our work, your work, and those positive
news that came from NPH Haiti, in spite of the
difficulties that we have confronted this year.
The devastating earthquake happened last January 12, the
appearance of Hurricane Thomas and the arrival and
spreading of cholera in the poorest country of Latin
America and one of the poorest of the world, has obliged
us to confront very complicated challenges:
A) to Continue developing the
nutritious, medical, educational, and welfare programs, in
a context of generalized famine, violence in the streets
and a country completely collapsed.
B) to Expand the 100% of the
programs that develop in Haiti since our arrival to Port
o' Prince in the year 1988.
And nevertheless, our people in Haiti have
carried out commendable work, and have delivered more to
the neediest Haitian community than ever.
This work has been possible to develop it since ours:
A) Pediatric Hospital St. Damien
Chateaublond.
More than 25,000 children were treated with serious
illnesses such as tuberculosis, HIV-AIDS, severe
malnutrition, etc.
B) Center for disabled children at
Kay St. Germaine. The center consists of physical therapy
programs and schooling for disabled children.
One of the disabled girls that
received amputation of her leg
after the earthquake, in the program of rehabilitation,
learning to walk again.
C) Center of vocational workshops
and self-
sustaining producation at Francisville (bakery,
mechanical, electricity, production of cement and blocks
for construction).
Francisville produces 1,500 loaves of bread daily,
nutritious pasta, blocks of cement for reconstruction, and
has mechanical and electrical workshops for their
self-sustaining work.
D) New home, named St. Louis, for
children orphans/abandoned victims of the earthquake.
The St. Louis orphanage will soon receive a total of 350
orphaned and abandoned children who were victims of the
earthquake on January 12, 2010.
The orphanage has been built taking
advantage of the containers of humane aid received after
the earthquake and transformed into dormitories and
schools.
E) New St. Anne's orphanage for
babies who were victims of the earthquake.
More than 35 babies and children
to 6 years of age have been received
in the new home since the earthquake
of January 12, 2010.
F) 12 Day Camps care for 2,500 children victims of
the earthquake each day.
 2,500
children are attended daily in this program because of
you, receiving nutritious meals, medical attention,
schooling and diverse activities that help them to get
past the psychological trauma of the earthquake.
G) Home Kay. St. Hèléne for
abandoned/orphaned children, opened in 1988.
The home is found in the mountains of Kenscoff, 45 minutes
from the capital, in a
tranquil environment, far from the violence.
St. Hèléne has a school for 1,000, and is
open to children of the community.
H) Center for nutrition and schools located in the
Prince Port slums, and also a medical clinic.
All the children that attend these schools receive
at least 1 meal daily.
Our health centers attend the adults and sick children.
The most serious are transferred to our own
Hospital.
I) The Sister Philomena Center for treating Cholera
has handled the immediate treatment of more than 2,000
sick children with cholera.
Already more than 2,000
people have been treated for cholera. They are expecting
more than 400,000 cases in the country.
J) Distribution of
drinking water, food, school support and doctors to the
Haitian community.
Weekly thousands of liters of drinking water are
distributed among the population that lives in Port Prince
and the towns surrounding it. This was already done before
the earthquake. We continue to do it since the earthquake.
All our programs of aid to the disaster have been
expanded.
K) Concession of micro-credits to youths and women
that lost everything during the earthquake.
 The
mothers that do not abandon their disabled children can
bring them to therapy to our central rehabilitation center
at St. Germaine. They join the cooperative that produces
cards and they receive aid in the form of micro-credits.
L) Program of surgeries in our Hospital St. Damien
Chateaublond in Tabarre, Haiti.
Since the earthquake, St. Damien's Hospital has carried
out all kinds of surgeries weekly. During the time of the
earthquake, it was necessary to perform hundreds of
amputations on children and adults.
In 2010 our health centers, always thanks to your help,
have been able to go from treating 25,000 children in the
past to treating more than 40,000 gravely ill children.
In 2010 our orphanages, always thanks to your
help, have been able to go from helping 750 children to helping
more than 2,500 orphaned/abandoned children.
In 2010 our general aid programs, always thanks to your help,
have been able to distribute water, food, medicines and tents to
more than 5,000 families in Port o' Prince.
All this work should continue during the 2011 and the successive
years, and we also hope to contribute to the national
reconstruction of the country and to accompany the Haitians,
especially the children, in the recovery of their dignity by
offering them a home where they can live, eat, receive medical
attention, attend school, and have our unconditional support,
which is a solid professional and human formation that permits
them a future to live "properly" in their own country.
This it is exactly the work that NPH/
Our Little Brothers and Sisters/Friends of the Orphans have been
carrying out since 1954 in Mexico, Honduras, Nicaragua,
Guatemala, El Salvador, Peru, Bolivia, the Dominican Republic
and Haiti.
Please don't forget the other countries where we have also been
present in Latin America, in spite of the fact that Haiti has
been regularly talked about in the media this year. In the
countries mentioned above, we regularly attend to an additional
population of 3,000 children there in our homes for orphaned and
abandoned children.
Our challenges for the 2011 are:
A) Haiti: Reconstruction of 17
schools located in Port o' Prince slums that would teach 7,500
Haitian children.
 Schools
of NPH in operation before the earthquake.
Now we initiate the reconstruction of the same.
B) Haiti: The School Nutrition program for 7,500
children that corresponds to the schools that we will build
this year in 2011.
C) Haiti: Construction of a new home that will receive
permanently 350 victims orphaned children of the earthquake.
D) Haiti: Construction
and enlargement of the center of production and teaching at
Francisville where our youths will learn specialized positions
in vocational workshops.
E) Haiti: Medical
attention to 40,000 disabled and seriously sick children since
our health centers, along with nutrition.
F) Haiti: Maintenance of all the ongoing programs:
medical, nutrition, education, and general aid and development
that
 we
have in motion in NPH Haiti since the year 1988 and that we
have expanded this year in 2010.
G) Haiti: Francisville, to contribute
to the national reconstruction of the country by means of
schools, health centers, and homes using the bricks
manufactured here.
 Blocks
of cement manufactured at Francisville's teaching center and
self-sustaining factory in Port o' Prince.
H) Latin America: Continuing to
receive and treat the 3,500 orphaned and abandoned children
currently in the homes of NPH Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua,
Honduras, Peru, Bolivia, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador
and Haiti. In the homes a healthy, family environment is
offered where
children can grow into healthy people due to their schooling,
diet and medical attention, and can
contribute to the work and social condition of their own
countries.
Girls sponsored by you in the home of NPH Guatemala, after
their meals, washing the dishes and their own clothes.
But in order to continue helping the Haitian
population, especially the children, we continue to need your
help and commitment, your solidarity, and your confidence.
Please let us know of your concerns about the work that we carry
out from NPH. We are always delighted to hear what you have to
say about NPH/ Our Little Brothers and
Sisters/Friends of the Orphans.
Our work in this correspondence is to show you the projects that
have been developed in Latin America and the Caribbean, and to
let you see the people that receive your help, so that you can
be more conscious than ever that your contributions and
participation in our work is indispensable and critical.
Thank you for being a part of NPH/ Our
Little Brothers and Sisters/Friends of the Orphans in 2010.
Happy 2011!!!.
First children received in the home of NPH
Dominican Republic (in 2003) next to the founder of NPH, Father
Wasson, and local educators.
The support that NPH Haiti received from NPH Dominican Republic
was essential in the first weeks of emergency aid after the
earthquake to channel efficiently all the help coming from Spain
and other parts of the world.
If do not yet you participate in some of our programs and desire
to do it, contact us immediately through our website at
www.friendsoftheorphans.org. Thanks and Happy New
Year!!!.
With a strong hug,
Xavier
Xavier Adsarà
Director
Fundación Nuestros Pequeños Hermanos
C/Elisa nº 23
08023 Barcelona
Tel: 93.434.20.29
Mov: 639.153.153
info@nphspain.org
skype:
fundacion.nph
www.nph.org
Donativos: Caja Madrid nº cta. 2038 9254-56-60.000-41.107
Nº de Registro: 08/0345
(Ministerio de Trabajo y Asuntos Sociales de Madrid)
NIF: G-62984919
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