Here is the link for our December 2011 newsletter
Season of giving 2011
Happy and prosperous New Year to us all

Tomorrow 15 dedicated Americans and Canadians will arrive to travel the country with Sionfonds for Haiti staff, and provide medical and dental care to the schools and communities Sionfonds serves. Since our last medical trip six month ago all of us have been working to gather the supplies and funds necessary, to create mobile clinics that [...]

A story that turned out better than I ever could have imagined involving 35 teachers from three rural schools serving 750 students, 5 cooks, 4 translators, 2 drivers, 4 American volunteers, and 18 donors! By Serena Clayton We embarked on this endeavor with the conviction that teachers and their practices in the classroom are at the [...]

I will be heading back to Haiti in a couple weeks. It has been 3 months since my last visit, the time in between has passed quickly; first recovery, getting my bearings back home where so much of what we think is a necessity is really a convenience, then back to work writing grants, updating files and [...]

As the famous, at least to those of us who participate in Sionfonds for Haiti medical trips, Scott Bullock said last November “We work hard when we come to Haiti, but I always get more than I give.” I agree a thousand times over–as I leave Haiti today I feel incredibly blessed to have this [...]

  Clinic  at Sionfonds’ school in Cavaillon on March 31, 2011 Medical and dental Well Checks on all 256 students *For Medical attention: 111 adults 29 children from the surrounding community 35 students 5 teachers *For Dental Care/extractions: 111 adults and children for extractions and sealants and flouride treatments 290 people total At our clinic in Chardonier on [...]

As the medical team departs this morning.

We at Sionfonds in Haiti and the US and I know every Haitian person whose lives you touched would like to thank you  for your generous hearts and caring spirits that brought you here to change the lives of thousands of people.

Bon Voyage

  April First and  Second in Chardonier It is takes two hours to get to Chardonier from Les Cayes not one. It is a beautiful ride along the southern coast of Haiti. The villages have a sweet old world look to them little houses on narrow streets. Some have churches near the town square with steeples, all [...]

This Medical trip consists of 3 doctors from the SF bay area, a PA from Canada, a dentist  and dental assistant from St George Utah, 3 nurses from Canada and SF, 2 interpretters form the UK and SF bay area, a socail worker from Sf Bay area, and two children 11 and 15. We have [...]

Twice a year, Sionfonds takes a team of medical volunteers to Haiti to work with Haitian staff and volunteers. The medical trips are a critical part of our efforts to support school children, their families and the surrounding communities. Our first priority on these trips is to provide care in the four communities where we [...]

Peacequilts is producing items that are being sold at Macy’s this holiday season. In the coming months Sionfonds’ sewing school will be trained in quilt making and create sewing groups to produce items for sale at Macy’s and other retail outlets, as well as the beautiful handmade  quilts that are shown in galleries around the country. [...]

We’ve partnered with DonationLine.com, a Vehicle Donation Charity fundraising agent, that helps individual vehicle donors seeking to support non-profit organizations around the country. Donate your car, boat, truck, RV, Jet Ski or snowmobile to DonationLine.com and receive a tax deduction. This is a no cost, no hassle process which begins when you contact Donation Line LLC [...]

Robenson, who is the director of Kenscoff school  said to me yesterday, that the reason he believes in education so deeply is because, as he tapped his head “this is all  I have, and with it I can change my life and help others. If I can educate  200 children  and they each help even 10 children themsleves that will still make a [...]