Plans for the future:

As Saint Katharine Drexel Parish continues to grow our partnership with the parish of St. Hubert there are a Sister Parish in Haiti number of ways we are exploring to assist our brothers and sisters in Ennery: St. Hubert, Ennery Fr. Faubert Charles, Pastor 1. Continued financial support for training and stipend for lay ministers to assist Fr. Faubert. 2. Development of a steering committee About Ennery and St. Hubert Parish:

for our sister parish program Ennery is located north of Port-au-Prince in 3. Exploration of providing scholarships the region of Aritibonite, about 20 miles from for teens at St. Hubert’s to attend the Gonaives city of Independence. In 2009 it high school (for which there is no free was estimated that the population of Ennery public education in Haiti) was about 47,000. St. Hubert Parish has a 4. Long range planning for future church and five chapels located in remote and delegation trips to St. Hubert. difficult to reach areas of the countryside. Fr. Faubert currently has no staff beyond those we are supporting to assist him in ministering to this far-flung community. Our objective:

To participate in the Archdiocese of Baltimore’s outreach to the Diocese of Gonaives through our partnering with St. Hubert Parish in Ennery, Haiti. Through our partnership with St. Hubert parish to assist the community there to be spiritually healthy, physically strong, and to help relieve the daily suffering of the community.

St. Hubert Parish Church Brochure updated 19 April 2016 Rationale: History of Archdiocese of Baltimore Sister Parish Efforts: In Haiti, the data on malnutrition, infectious diseases and illiteracy is 2001 - Deacon Rodrigue Mortel, M.D. alarming. Any help to relieve the daily (originally from Haiti) developed long- suffering of hopelessness and the bondage range plan to promote church-to-church of illiteracy can bring new life to this small solidarity including a program to twin nation. parishes in our archdiocese with parishes

in the Diocese of Gonaives. One of every five Haitian children dies Deacon Jeff, Father Faubert and Father Keith before the age of 5 of preventable concelebrating Mass at Saint Katharine Drexel 2011 - 20 Archdiocese of Baltimore infectious diseases and malnutrition; parishes were paired with 18 Diocese of Only 20% of the children attend school Gonaives parishes because of the paucity of schools and the lack of funds to provide shoes and 2013 - 4 of the 20 parish partnerships are clothes to students; with parishes in Frederick county: St. No free public education is provided by Timothy (Walkersville), Holy Family the government for high school; (Middletown), St. Ignatius (Ijamsville), The illiteracy rate in Haiti is 80%; Our Lady of Mt. Carmel (Thurmont) and St. Anthony Shrine (Emmitsburg) Unemployment rate is around 85% 90% of Haitian women have no Father Keith and Alyce Luck during our first 2014 - St. Katharine Drexel Parish delegation trip to St. Hubert Parish in Haiti profession or trade. partners with St. Hubert parish, Ennery.

What has been done by the Saint Katharine Drexel Parish community:

1. In 2012 parish partnerships were researched, studied and an information meeting was held with SKD Social Justice Ministry members and representatives from the St. Timothy and St. Ignatius Partnership teams. 2. We learned about a Haitian parish that is interested in partnering with us—St. Hubert Parish in Ennery, Haiti. 3. In May of 2014, Fr. Faubert (pastor of St. Hubert) visited us and met with Fr. Keith and the Social Justice ministry to learn about the needs of his parish. At this time a poor box collection of $1,400.00 was designated for assistance to the parish of St. Hubert to provided benches for the church and medications for an ongoing virus among the people. 4. Our SKD community decided to designate a portion of our rebate from the Archbishop’s Annual Appeal to go to St. Hubert parish. 5. In August 2015 we sent monies for the training and stipends for three lay leaders to assist Fr. Faubert with the five chapel communities. 6. From 26-29 February 2016 our first SKD delegation (which included Fr. Keith, Alexis Zabsonre, and Alyce Luck) traveled to Haiti to meet the Catholic community of St. Hubert. Over 200 lbs. of over the counter medicine and supplies were delivered by the team. 7. From 28 March—1 April 2016 a medical clinic, sponsored by SKD, was held at St. Hubert’s to dispense medications and treat the local community utilizing the donations brought by the delegation.

We wish to thank the Pastoral Council and Fr. Keith for their ongoing support of this project.