Previous Projects – FOUNDATION SAINTE ROSE DE LIMA

Saint Joseph de Cluny
is composed of
Sainte Rose de Lima
and 14 other institutions.

The goal of FSRL is to support them and their activities.

to see our goal and budget financing by project types for ongoing activities.

Below are the ongoing activities FSRL is supporting.

The first sisters of Saint-Joseph de Cluny arrived in Gonaives in October 1873. With courage, determination, and tenacity, they immediately started to fix the dilapidated building donated to them by the Haitian government of the time. Today, 7 sisters of Saint Joseph de Cluny continue the work of these pioneers. They are responsible for the administration of 4 sections: primary school, secondary school, professional and teacher formation, and religious education and community activities.

The Rosalie Javouhey Center, founded in 1993, is a private school managed by the Saint-Joseph de Cluny sisters. Located at number #50 in Avenue Pouplard in Port-au-Prince, this center opened its doors to its first students in 1993: 125 girls aged 4 to 5 years old, living in the slums of Saint-Antoine. The current student enrollment of the school stands at 384 students. The youngest are in pre-school. The oldest are in 5th year (CM1 in French system) of elementary school.

Five sisters are part of this community. One of them works at the hospital’s state pharmacy and provides services to the hospital patients. The four others work in education in a national school of 600 students assuming the religious formation of these pupils. They are working with 22 teachers, and 2 sports coaches.

In this primary schools of 620 students, with 15 teachers, we are focusing on their comprehensive education. To improve their work productivity, we provide them with one daily cooked meal from the cafeteria, as well as access to our food bank supported by the Catholic Relief Service. We work diligently toward their intellectual, physical, cultural, moral and spiritual development. We have a center for promotion and education of girls and women. This center serves 30 low income students who get trained in sewing, stitching, cooking, home management, hygiene practices, and citizen education.

This school was founded in 1865. But they moved into this current building in 1931.

This hospital provide various services: general practice, surgery, obstetrics, pediatrics, and emergency. They also have a clinic, out-patient service, ophthalmology service, tuberculosis center, and radiology services. A specialist comes from Port-au-Prince once a month to operate the ophthalmology services for 5 days. Our chaplin pay for his salary and travel expenses. The one specialist on permanent duty is the gynecologist who is also the director of the hospital. He is assisted by 2 general practices physicians, 2 social services physicians, and a dentist. 5 nurses and 30 assistant nurses complete the hospital staffing.

The Patronage de L’ Ange Gardien has 2 sections: the section for younger children with 360 students, and a section for older students with 80 currently enrolled. We also offer literacy services to those not enrolled. The literacy services is a 5 years program that offers sewing, cooking, baking, crochet, stitching, and floral arrangement classes in the last year. This center currently enrolls 140 students. It is staffed by 6 instructors. The sewing class is offered on Saturdays and has 70 students. Religious education to the young ones is on Sunday afternoons. Religious formation of older students is on Sunday mornings. Once a month, the regulars of the center get access to our food bank.