Taryn Community Center
The Taryn Community Resource Center, a ministry of Love the Children, is a Haitian entity in the village of Larevwa Haiti and serves the people of the 9th communal sector of Bainet Haiti. It is governed by leaders from the surrounding community, including the pastors from all of the protestant churches in the community. It receives 100% of its funding from North American donors, through Love the Children, Inc. The Taryn Center operates the Taryn Educational Resource Center, Nutritional Resources, Clean Water Resources and will operate the Taryn Medical Resource Center. Yvronel Sobia is the Director of the Taryn Center and reports directly to Love the Children’s In-country Director, Louissaint Destin. Love the Children’s mission is to make disciples of Christ, by helping the people of rural Haiti transform their community into the kind of place God wants it to be. Bob Lichy, the Founder and Principal said, “We measure each decision we make and each action we take by how well it reflects the love of God. We believe that when the people we serve see God’s love in our actions, they are more open to His gospel. We understand that our assisting the community to develop a medical clinic and birthing center will provide many opportunities to show God’s love and present His gospel.”
Clinic Management and Staffing
The Taryn Medical Center’s professional staff will be made up of Liliane Babtiste, who will become a certified Nurse Practitioner / Mid-wife and Cassandra Mirtyl Vanelie, also a certified Nurse Practitioner / Mid-wife. Ms Babtiste will be the lead professional and report to Yvronel Sobia, the Director of the Taryn Community Center. Mr. Sobia will be responsible for over-seeing and managing the operation of the center. Both Liliane and Casandra are receiving their Bachelors Degrees in December 2020 and will enter the Episcopal University FSIL Nursing School Masters in June 2021. Much of the Masters program will be conducted online, allowing them time to work in the clinic when not in class. The Masters degree will include certification as Nurse Practitioner / Mid-wife. The Center has developed relationships with two hospitals in Haiti, one in Leagone and one in Port au Prince that will provide assistance and guidance for the professional staff, when needed. The local medical professional staff will be supplemented by North American short-term missionaries. The Taryn Medical Center will host short-term medical missions on a regular basis. Love the Children has been in touch Medical Missions and have discussed their connecting the Taryn Center with short-term missionaries once each quarter. Medical supplies and pharmaceuticals for use by the short-term missionaries will be supplied by MedShare and other similar organizations. In addition to the professional staff, it will be necessary to have one additional full-time staff member and volunteers who will be responsible for cleaning and maintaining the facility. Purchasing, bookkeeping and related administrative tasks will be performed by Taryn Community Center staff. Love the Children, Inc. is currently developing an informal Advisory Board, made up of medical and business professionals who will provide advice and guidance to the Taryn Center and LtC Board of Directors and staff. Their advice has already been utilized when designing the Medical Center facility.
Building Construction
FINANCIAL NEEDS
The originally established budget for building construction was $35,000.00 including $18,000.00 for the building envelope, $8,500.00 for the solar electrical system and $8,500.00 for the mechanical systems. It currently appears that the finished building envelope we will be within the $18,000.00 originally budgeted. The cost of the solar system materials has increased due to changes in the exchange rate, since the estimate was made. It is likely that the electrical system will be 30% to 40% higher than estimated. However, because THE site was relocated, the cost of materials for the water supply system will be considerably lower. It is likely that they will balance each other out and the entire building costs will stay within the original $35,000.00.
There is currently sufficient money, on-hand, to complete the building envelope and the interior walls. It is anticipated that this work will be completed sometime in January, depending on weather and manpower availability. The solar electrical and mechanical systems will be complete as funding becomes available. Hopefully, the remaining $17,000.00 to complete construction of the building will be found soon. If money becomes available, the building will be completed prior to the already set dedication date of August 21, 2021.
Furnishing Medical Equipment and Supplies (Including Pharmaceuticals)
There are several non-profits and other organizations that provide medical equipment, supplies and pharmaceuticals to medical care providers in third world and otherwise underserved communities. LtC has contacted several of these organizations and is confident that much of the equipment, supplies and pharmaceuticals that will be needed to get started and to operate will be available at minimal cost. We have already been in touch with 1. the World Health Organization “Project C.U.R.E. 2. International Missionary Foundation 3. American Society of Hand Therapists 4. Samaritan’s Purse 5. Medical Mission Exchange and 6. MedShare. When we contacted them, we were told that we should wait until we are closer to our opening date before applying for their help.
Vehicle
The area of Haiti that the medical center will serve, the 9th Communal District of Bainet, is very rural and relatively remote. The people that live in this area do not own cars. The only way for them to get to the clinic is by walking or motorcycle. If they are too ill to get to the clinic, the medical professionals would have to drive a motorcycle to get to them. If the clinic owned a vehicle it would be used to transport patients to the clinic or the professional to the patient. The closest small hospital is in Jacmel, about a 2-hour drive. The closest modern hospital is in Leagone, more than 3 hours away. The vehicle would also be used when the clinic is unable to provide proper care and the patient needs to be transported to a hospital. It will be necessary for the vehicle to be four-wheel drive and have a sufficient ground clearance to ford the Bainet River.
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A TRANSFORMING OPPORTUNITY
Love the Children would like to give all our North American friends the opportunity to be transformed by God as they connect with the people of rural Haiti. We all know that the more we do to change the lives of others for the better the more our own life is transformed. Love the Children will provide every opportunity to help you become a real part of the 9th Communal Sector of Bainet.
VOLUNTEERING OPPORTUNITIES
There are several volunteering opportunities that have been designed to give you a maximum number of ways to be part of this work that will fit your ability and interest.
Medical Mission Trips -
The Medical Center will host quarterly, short-term medical mission trips utilizing medical professionals and others from North America. It is our desire that many of our North American friends will participate in a short-term medical mission trip each year. These trips will give medical professional and others the opportunity to share their skills and knowledge with the people of rural Haiti. We believe that Doctors, Nurses, Dentists, Pharmacists, Medical School students will find these trips an extremely rewarding way to use their skills and at the same time become immersed in the Haitian society and culture. One does not, however, need to be a medical professional to participate, there will be plenty of opportunities for others to also participate in a Medical Mission trip. There are always things that need to be done that they will find rewarding for them and valuable to those whom we serve. A Taryn Center short-term medical mission trip will not only be about providing medical services. It will also be about making friends. We will help participants build relationships so they can begin to understand their Haitian hosts. They will have an opportunity to learn about life in rural Haiti. They will have an opportunity to visit their homes, eat their food, tour their gardens. They will worship with them, sing with them and pray with them. We have found that our friends in Haiti genuinely appreciate it when our North American friends care enough to take the time to come and visit them.
Family & Youth Short-term Mission Trips –
We do not want to limit our North American friends to participating in medical mission trips, only. During the time when having the summer trip, we would encourage those who aren’t interested in a Medical Mission trip to visit Haiti with us. This would provide an opportune time for families and youth to connect with the work in Haiti. In addition to the work that would be done at the medical clinic they could participate in other activities. One of the most fun and rewarding ways to spend a short-term mission trip is to participate in a Summer Bible Camp. If you find this interesting, you would not need to be bible experts you would just need to love God and have a desire to pass that love on to the children. You will spend much of the day at the school, but your evenings would be spent with the children’s families and others in worship, fellowship and bible study.
Advisory Groups -
Like all small non-profits, Love the Children and the Taryn Medical Center needs advice and guidance on many issues that face us in our day to day work. We are too small to have adequate expertise on staff or even our Board of Directors. We therefore must depend on individuals and small groups of friends that have the expertise, that we lack, to give us needed advice and to guide us through situations or projects. You may have the needed skills and expertise that we lack. We will do all we can to provide opportunities for you to use their knowledge and skills to make Haiti a better place to live.
Specific Tasks -
There is what seems to be an endless list of tasks that will need to be accomplished to carry out this work. We will do all we can to point out these tasks to give you the opportunity to use your skills and interest to carry them out. A few of these tasks are: 1. Recruit health care professional and others to participate in medical mission trips, 2. Organize the travel for those going on a mission trips, 3. Make application and coordinate with organizations that will supply medical equipment and supplies.
Host Home Party – (IN THE CURRENT ENVIROMENT ZOOM PARTIES)
The more people that know about and understand the impact of this work, the more successful it will be. We will give our North American friends the opportunity and encourage them to connect people they know with our friends in Haiti. They can help by telling their friends and neighbors about the work or showing them Our Blog or newsletters and other literature. Perhaps the best and most fun way that they can do this is by hosting a Connections House Party. The house party would be informative, only and a NOT a fundraiser. Bob Lichy would be there to introduce them to the work and how it will be making a real difference in Haiti. Love the Children will help anyone that would like to host a Connection House Party with sufficient information.
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BECOME A TRANSFORMER FOR HOPE.
Transformers for Hope is an opportunity that is available to all our friends to transform the lives of people in the 9th Communal Sector of Bainet, Haiti and give them hope. Your monthly recurring gift will help support the ongoing cost of operating the Taryn Medical Center. When you become a transformer, you are given the opportunity to develop a one-on-one relationship with an individual child through sponsorship. You will receive a picture and biography of one of the children who is benefiting from your generosity. You will also be enrolled in the Love the Children Blog and will automatically receive the electronic version of the Transformer Newsletter which will let you know how your donation is transforming lives. It is easy to become a Transformer for Hope. You can simply click on BECOME A TRANSFORMER above and fill out a form that will be provided where they will indicate the amount of their recurring donations and how they will make the payment. They can write a check each month, set up recurring payments in their online banking or they can set it up on a credit or debit card. If only forty people sign up, we will have enough to cover the On-Going Operating Cost.
How Transformers for Hope Works
Love the Children has found that the most effective way to end the problems around child poverty in rural Haiti is to take a holistic approach. We partner with churches, schools and village leaders to strengthen the entire community. As we help the village provide quality education, adequate food, clean water and health care, all of the children benefit. As individual children are matched with a sponsor, the sponsor's donation is immediately combined with other donations and resources to benefit the entire community. In this case, however, your donation will be put into a restricted account that will only be used to fund the on-going operation of the Taryn Medical Center. While you will not, actually, sponsor an individual child, your recurring gift will allow them to establish a powerful one-on-one connection with one of the children that will benefit from your generosity. In addition to a picture and some biographical information including age, home village, and grade you will receive the first letter from your child or a caretaker in approximately 60 days. Due to the remoteness of the villages where Love the Children works and the language barrier, communications will generally be transmitted through Love the Children’s in-country staff, over the internet. While the actual cost of caring for each individual child is approximately $10.00 per month, we encourage you to consider sponsorship at the $40.00 level, but we want you to feel free to determine at what level you feel most comfortable.
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