Greenville Online shares the good news of Christ Church’s work in Haiti. Working with Paul Farmer, founder of Partners in Health, the church has aided health care and development in the Haiti’s central plateau.
Harvard professor Paul Farmer told a Greenville church Sunday he measures progress in Haiti by the requests he hears.
The Haitians mostly asked for food when he arrived in the Caribbean nation 25 years ago. Now they want something else, he said.
“They say, ‘I want a Razr cell phone,’ or ‘I need a DVD player,'” Farmer said. “I can get annoyed by that or I can say, ‘That’s progress.'”
Farmer, a medical anthropology professor, has been working with Christ Church Episcopal and other congregations to help Cange, a village on Haiti’s central plateau.
The worldwide food crisis threatens the progress but Farmer is hopeful that support can be given to weather this threat:
… when he first arrived in 1983, Cange was a dusty hilltop village without health-care facilities. Working together, Farmer and church members built a clinic and a school.
“It’s a much different place now,”
Farmer said sustaining the progress will mean helping Haiti get through its current crisis.
Read more here.
Haiti is a companion diocese of the Diocese of Upper South Carolina.