Each year, Church of the Nativity has taken on additional projects to ease the suffering in Haiti. By the end of 2010, that first project at Canapé-Vert, with 27 houses, had grown into 6 completed “Nativity Village” developments with over 800 houses. Each of these “Nativity Villages,” located in different geographic areas of Haiti, starts with basic needs like shelter, sanitation and clean drinking water. Then education and health care is addressed with schools, clinics, and vocational training programs. Ultimately, each village includes a self-sustaining component such as sewing co-op’s, fishing co-op’s, tilapia farming, agriculture or animal husbandry to generate a revenue stream. Completed and ongoing projects include:

• CANAPE VERT HOUSING, 27 houses, sanitation, drinking water, soccer field – dedicated 1999
• MOBILE MEDICAL VAN, clinic on wheels for the Archdiocese of Port-au-Prince, providing health care to remote areas – dedicated 2000
• LITTLE CHILDREN OF JESUS HOME, rebuilt an orphanage for handicapped children after a fire – dedicated 2001
• NATIVITY VILLAGE AT MERGER, near Port-au-Prince, with 250 houses, sanitation blocks, water wells, primary school with scholarship program, community center, vocational training, clinic access, and chicken farm – dedicated 2004
• NATIVITY VILLAGE AT PROLONGE, near Cap-Haitien, with 400 houses, individual latrines, central water distribution system, primary school with scholarship program, community center, vocational training, and sewing co-op – dedicated 2006
• NATIVITY FISHING VILLAGE AT PETIT-ANSE, near Cap-Haitien, was the first fishing village project in Haiti (there are now 17), with 12 families operating 4 deep-sea fishing boats, with housing, sanitation, water wells and solar street lighting. In addition, Nativity funded the “John B,” a larger boat used to map fishing grounds and train fishermen. – dedicated 2006
• NATIVITY TILAPIA AND AGRICULTURE CENTER, near Cap-Haitien, with 5 tilapia ponds, wells and pumps, fruit tree nursery and chicken and duck production – dedicated 2006
• ST. ANTHONY HEALTH CENTER, located within Nativity Village at Prolonge, this facility provides health education, first aid, immunizations and ongoing treatment of illness, including cholera, for a population of 10,000 – dedicated 2008
• NATIVITY FISHING VILLAGE AT MADRAS, near Cap-Haitien, with 12 families operating another 4 deep-sea fishing boats, with housing, sanitation, water wells and solar street lighting – dedicated 2008
• NATIVITY VILLAGE AT EL CORTE, in a remote mountain region near the Dominican Republic border, with 50 houses, individual latrines, water wells and pipe distribution system, community center, chicken farm, goats, cows and fruit tree nursery – dedicated 2008
• NATIVITY VILLAGE AT LOZANDIER, near Jacmel on Haiti’s south coast, this project includes 50 houses, sanitation, water wells, fishing village and animal husbandry – completed 2009
• HAITI HURRICANE RELIEF, following 4 major hurricanes in Haiti in 2008, Nativity parishioners raised over $100,000 in one weekend for emergency relief funding for Food For The Poor
• NATIVITY VILLAGE AT DEMIER, in a rural area along the Atlantic coast, between Cap-Haitien and Fort Liberte, this new project includes 100 completed houses, water wells, the first indoor toilets in a Nativity Village project, and a large lake for aquaculture.
• NATIVITY GREEN TREE PROJECT, funded by the Matthew 25 Foundation, planted 5,000 fruit trees and installed 2 water wells in Cap-Haitien in 2008
• NATIVITY AGRICULTURAL FARM, a 100-acre, pump-irrigated vegetable farm that is producing commercially marketed crops and providing employment for the local population east of Cap-Haitien, near Caracol – completed 2010
• HAITI EARTHQUAKE RELIEF, after a major earthquake in Port-au-Prince on January 12, 2010, Nativity raised $300,000, filled 2 sea containers with relief supplies, worked with other churches to pack 144,000 meals, and supported a medical mission to Haiti – completed 2010
• NATIVITY VILLAGE AT CHASTENOYE, a major relocation effort to move hundreds of families out of the tidal canal area in downtown Cap-Haitien. The first 50 houses are complete. Nativity’s 2011 Operation Starfish campaign will fund a second phase of this development.
• HAITI CHOLERA RELIEF, 1 sea container of medical supplies from Nativity has been shipped to Haiti; 1 container of oral rehydration salts has been sent from a manufacturer in Kansas City; a 2nd sea container from Nativity will ship in Spring 2011 and a 2nd container of OHS shipped from Kansas City in February.