MBF’s CFO visits Haiti after nursing school loses accountant in quake

After the previous accountant at FSIL School of Nursing was killed in Haiti’s earthquake, MBF offered Fred Kingston, MBF’s Chief Financial Officer, to assist their new accountant with the annual audit. Upon return from his recent trip to Haiti, Kingston reports that thousands of people are still living in tents on the school grounds. There is much rubble in the streets, but the rains have encouraged lush growth.
 
Kingston says that six months since the devastating earthquake, students at the nursing school are just now returning to live in their dormitory. Even though the dormitory has been declared sturdy and safe, the students, who have been living in tents outside the school buildings, are still nervous to move back inside. With the rainy season upon them, Hilda Alcindor, Dean of the school, had already moved classes back indoors and is now urging the students to trust the dorm building.
 
How can we pray for Haiti and its people at this time? Kingston says that one of the major needs is “back hoes and dump trucks” to help them move the rubble off the streets and a place to put it. Up to now, people have been trying to remove it by hand.
 
FSIL School of Nursing, under the direction of the Haiti Nursing Foundation of Ann Arbor, Michigan, partners with the Episcopal Diocese of Haiti. MBF partners with the Diocese and has a long history of supporting these and other worthy projects in Haiti. At this time, we are requesting general donations to MBF so that we can respond to this crisis while also ensuring no part of the organization’s operations or other partners are neglected.