(ANS – Port-au-Prince) – Joy and sorrow, dismay and hope marked the first day of Fr. Pascual Chavez’s visit to Haiti. Speaking to the youngsters and the Salesians, he said, “Our purpose is, first of all, to give hope to Haiti.” The Rector Major arrived in Santo Domingo on the evening of February 11. Fr. …
As an SLM back in the day, this is the phrase that I would hear over and over waiting for taxis to take me back to my mission site. It wasn’t until my second year of serving as a lay missioner that I had a chance to see some of the work that is done …
Security of the Salesian properties in Port-au-Prince is urgent. This means that rebuilding the security walls needs to be done as soon as possible. Without these walls, the SDBs can’t re-open production at ENAM’s bakery, which, if not for lack of security, could have been operating for some time now. The bakery and all the …
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A convoy of 3-4 trucks will leave on Tuesday morning, Feb. 2, from La Vega, D.R., for Pétion-Ville and Thorland with food and emergency relief supplies. A second convoy will depart later in the week with food and emergency relief supplies bound for Cap-Haitien. The warehouse and repacking facility at Jimaní on the Haiti-Dominican Republic …
