For example, to the Haitian cataracts mean a lifetime of blindness unless a mission hospital with a visiting ophthalmologist can be found. Through its ministry of proclamation EMMF hopes to attract specialists to the Presbyterian-Episcopal Hopital Sainte Croix in Leogane. Father Jean-Wilfrid Pere Albert is the priest of St. Matthais parish in Haiti and is spiritually responsible for 34 mission churches in the mountains of the southern peninsula of Haiti. He is not only devoted to his country and its children, he capable, talented, and tireless. Father John Lipscomb of Lake Charles, Louisiana, commented recently after a visit to Haiti, Father Albert was one of the holiest people he had ever met.
Private schools are the only schools.
Not only do the school kitchens feed the students, they also never turn other hungry children away. More than 8,000 students now attend these schools. EMMF funds support some of these schools through scholarship grants and funds for the sibling lunch program. Shoes are also provided. EMMF also supports the lay evangelist program in Haiti by funding the salary of one of them.