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Francisville – New Work City

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Here’s a video about Francisville, a project sponsored by NPH Italy – Fondazione Francesca Rava under the direction of Passionist Father Rick Frechette.

The project seeks to:

  • Provide jobs and training to people with disabilities and to boys and girls once out of the orphanages and the street schools of Port au Prince — Haiti,
  • Create sustainability, in order for the project to be able to maintain itself. The income could be also useful to help the development of other charity activities and Father Rick’s relief activities like construction, water delivery, “tap tap” transportation service,
  • Empower human resources by creating a professional school which will form secondary level students with high standards and the possibility to get diplomas recognized abroad. The idea is to guarantee access to foreign universities in Europe and USA.
  • At the ?training center people are trained “on the job” Programs include: mechanical workshop, bakery (bread and pizza), pasta maker, soap factory, leather (for sandals, bags and belts), and others.
  • Francisville will be visited by the project “OUT OF THE MUD” on weekends, by the children coming from the street schools in the slums, so that they can realize what they can achieve and how their future can be brighter out of the mud and violence of the slums. Father Rick had this idea to inspire the orphans to work toward a better future, by showing them that they could be the next students of the school in Francisville.
  • Hopefully, the Francisville project will be soon be relocated to a new campus in an area of 20.000 squared meters in Tabarre, in the outskirts of Port Au Prince — Haiti. There, Francisville will create all possible synergies with the nearby Saint Damien Children’s Hospital and Kay Germain rehabilitation center, in terms of manpower, utilities, services and security.

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Union City NJ 07087-3398
Tel: 888/806-6606
E-mail: AGardiner@cpprov.org

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An Important New Project – Fr. Rick Frechette

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My update of a few days ago did not include one extremely important project that I wanted to cover separately. This  is a production and training center that we named in honor of St Francis of Asissi, called Francisville. The motto for this endeavor is “works of justice are works of peace.”

Francisville is envisioned to be a place where we produce what we and other missionaries need, of good quality and good price, and the production is intended to be also training. Many of the Francisville staff had training in Italy for all the pre-quake activities:  producing cement block, baking of bread, a print shop producing our hospital forms and school materials, and preparation to open a vehicle mechanic shop. During the earthquake, we used the damage building to continue and even accelerate bread production to help combat hunger, and the warehouses of Francisville were an important base for the many containers of aid shipped to us from many countries, and also as a storage base for the Italian Civil Protection.

Marco with his apprentices

In the last six months, we have repaired most of the Francisville buildings and the perimeter walls, and we have begun the foundation for a huge warehouse area, and have increased our production to include cobblestone for making roads, and pasta to go with the bread in battling hunger. We will soon open a sewing center there, to make clothes, especially school uniforms.

Francisville runs at no expense to NPH Italy, NPH Haiti, or any NPH affiliate. The St Luke program manages Francisville as a mission cooperative, paying for the production often through grants, and donating the profit to NPFS Haiti.

Since   January 2010 we have produced 950,000 small loaves of bread, 32,000 cement block, 4,000 cobblestone, and 360,000 printed forms. Most of the bread is used for the poor, some sold to restaurants and other charitable organizations. The block is used to help people rebuild their homes, missionaries rebuild their missions, and to rebuild Francisville itself. We just started the cobblestone and have not yet used it for paving. The printed matter is mostly for our hospital and 24 schools. The net profit to NPH Haiti over the last six months was US$ 32,116.

We are very proud of the progress of this creative and life generating center, managed by Nebez Augustin and Father Fhito Randal. We are especially grateful for the enthusiastic help from NPH Italy.

Other projects to be realized in the near future for NPFS Haiti include the construction of a trade school (by the government of Mexico) for our young adults from NPH, housing for the same students, and a secondary school (by Artists for Peace and justice)  for the young adults of NPH and the St Luke program.

Again, thanks for your encouragement, prayer and support. It is important at this moment of Haiti’s history that help to the country be immediate, generous, concrete and involve forming young people through education and enterprise.

Best regards and God Bless you,

Fr Rick Frechette CP
July 22, 2010
Port au Prince

Please consider a donation to help the Passionists in their ministry to people living in poverty: Please make checks payable to PASSIONIST MISSIONARIES.

Passionist Missionaries Inc.
526 Monastery Place
Union City NJ 07087-3398
Tel: 888/806-6606
E-mail: DLisotta@cpprov.org

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The Donate Now button will redirect you to Caring Habits, Inc. (CHI) which is the credit card processing company for The Passionist Missionaries website.



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