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Haiti Programs

Child Survival Program
Child Sponsor Program

Haiti Programs - History Haiti, located 700 miles South of Florida, is an island nation with a population of eight million people. It is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere and the third poorest in the entire world.

Twenty years ago Dick Taylor traveled to the country of Haiti and was taken aback by the poverty and living conditions of the Haitian citizens. In the subsequent years that followed, Dick made regular trips to Haiti doing what he could to help children and families.

In 1986, his heart was moved by God to establish a ministry designed to raise support for individual school children in the rural parts of Haiti. Individual support would enable children to attend school, receive food and regular medical care. In 1997 the Child Survival Program was initiated to help save the lives of babies and their mothers through the provision of nutrition education, perinatal care, and other basic health care services. Children, parents and neighborhoods are also presented with the Gospel at schools, seminars, and camp programs. See how you can help with specific needs.

Today Dick is the Executive Director for FOCAS Ministries. FOCAS currently provides direction and leadership to both the Child Survival Program and the Child Sponsor Program. The aim in Haiti is to help the desperately poor through resource development and by providing medical programs, building projects, equipping schools, and training indigenous leaders to become self-sustaining in these endeavors.