Our team will consist of 17 students and adults who will travel to the remote community of Seguin Haiti in April 2012.

Mission Highlights

The ten day mission trip will keep the students busy with varies projects such as:

Seguin Tarp Program

We will provide people who live in corn stalk houses a tarp to cover their home to stay dry when it rains.  In these small homes there can be up to 10 people living inside.  These people are truly the poorest of the poor in Seguin.  Sometimes just a tarp over their heads shows that someone cares.

Building latrines.

The team will assist some families to construct a new latrine.  This project currently has 35 new latrines with plans for several hundred in the future.  This program is subsidized because the Haitians in most cases cannot afford the food needed for a meal per day.  Poor sanitation is responsible for many needless deaths of children and babies in Haiti.

Checking water filters in peoples homes.

Currently there are 400 families benefiting from water purifiers in their homes.  These filters provide purified water for approximately 3200 people.  It is hoped that in five years all families will have a water filter.  This program has already helped these people to become healthier.  Part of the water filter program is to monitor the program by checking the filters four times per year.  Last spot check of the families with filters showed that over 90% were using the filters correctly.

Teach Seguin children about art.

Children see art in Haiti but rarely enjoy creating it for lack of materials.  You may have the opportunity to work with the children in creating many new original pieces of art.

Visit and assist at Mother Theresa's home for the sick and dying.  

Mother Theresa's hospital is a sad but a joyous place where you will have the opportunity to work with the Sisters of Charity in loving and holding babies.

Visit Historic sites in Port au Prince.

Provide Vermox to the people to battle internal parasites.

Vermox is a de-worming medication that is giving to the people several times per year.  Most Haitians have lived with internal parasites for most of their lives.  The parasites along with other factors causes the average life span in Haiti to be 49 years for men and 52 years for women.  Many children and babies die because of these parasites, polluted drinking water, poor nutrition, and lack of proper sanitation.

This clip was not made in Seguin but it explains the need for Vermox in Haiti.  Every tablet of Vermox given out in Seguin will improve the health of many and it will save lives.