St. John’s Service Commission has come to know about the extraordinary work of Haiti Marycare. Now, during this Advent season, our Service Commission again invites us, as a Parish, to assist in supplying “Safe Birth Kits” as a way to reduce the mortality rate for mothers and newborns in Haiti. For many years, since making these “Safe Birth Kits” available in the village of Jacquesyl, no mothers or babies have died during childbirth. If you would like to help, please prepare one or more kits with the items listed below and bring to our collection on December 13-14.
To prepare a Safe Birth Kit, place the following items in a gallon-size Ziplock bag:
- One receiving blanket
- One large wrapped bar of soap (any brand)
- Two pieces of string, each approximately 8” in length, placed in an envelope
Safe Birth Kits will be received at our Glen Road entrance to Church during the weekend of December 13-14.
Financial donations are also welcome to complete the kits with medical supplies and to defray shipping costs. (Checks can be made payable to St. John Parish – please note Haiti Marycare in the memo.)
The Safe Birth Kits will be completed and assembled for transport after Christmas – please let us know if you would like to help.
Contacts: Andrea Reilly or Barbara Pyles, Parish Service Commission
Email: SC@stjohnwellesley.org
Haiti Marycare: www.HaitiMarycare.org
Lespwa fe‘ viv (Hope makes us live)
– Haitian proverb
