The purpose of the Haiti Nursing Foundation is to support the advancement of nursing in the Republic of Haiti.

 

Just for Nurses

Nurses are such an important component of the Haiti Nursing Foundation and the FSIL nursing school that you deserve your own section for information.

The main focus of our support is on the FSIL nursing school in Léogâne – the first and only four-year baccalaureate program in the country. FSIL has graduated four classes, 60 young women and men prepared to serve as leaders in health care delivery.

Volunteer instructors from the U.S. will be playing a major role at FSIL during the next few years, to include distance learning as well as short- and long-term visiting faculty. Most teams of nurse educators go to FSIL for two weeks at a time.

If this is one way you might want to help, please email your cv and we will forward it to a subcommittee of the school's governing board. They are looking for Masters or PhD prepared nurse educators and are reviewing their credentials. Please let us know if you speak French or Haitian Kreyol. While the language of instruction at FSIL is French, translators are available.

We would be very pleased to add you to our mailing list, or to send you information by email. FSIL cannot survive without significant help from outside Haiti. The $3,000 annual cost per student for all expenses was impossible for most Haitian families to manage before the earthquakes. Now, many of our students have lost everything and will need even more support.

Partnerships with nursing schools and student nurses associations are one of the best ways to support the FSIL School of Nursing in Léogâne. It's a natural connection. A number of U.S. schools of nursing and even state student nurses associations have committed their help. They have devised some very creative fundraising activities, and written letters of support to FSIL students which we forward. It's terribly important for nursing students in Haiti to know there are nurses and students here who care about them.

The need for nurses in Haiti is long-term; there will be much work to be done for decades. We hope you'll stay involved in our efforts to improve nursing education in Haiti, and especially in supporting the FSIL nursing school in Léogâne.

Don't hesitate to contact us directly if we can answer questions or help with any fundraising efforts you might choose to undertake.