HISTORY
1981 Caribbean
View Home for Children became the responsibility of a group of
volunteers affiliated with Young Life, a Christian youth organization; and
Gladys Thomas accepted the job of managing the orphanage.
1982
Haiti Home for Children became the new name for Caribbean View Home for
Children.
1983 School of the
Good Sower
was opened on the grounds of Haiti Home for Children to provide elementary
education for the children at the orphanage as well as children from the
neighborhood.
1986 Rainbow of Love
Nursery was
established to care for the increasing number of babies under the age of two who
were being brought to FEH for care and some who were found abandoned at the
General Hospital.
1989
Fondation Pour Les Enfants d’Haiti (FEH)
became the name of
the organization in Haiti,
that was running the orphanage, nursery, and
school.
1989
United States Foundation for the Children of Haiti (USFCH)
became the name of the entity
within which volunteers in the United States of
American serve in their effort to support FEH.
1993 Hope Institute
for Handicapped Children
opened to receive twenty-four children found abandoned at the
Port-au-Prince General Hospital.
1994 Hope Hospital, a pediatric hospital in Port-au-Prince, opened its
doors for outpatient care.
1995 Hope Hospital
became fully
operational for inpatient as well as outpatient treatment of children.
1998
Hope Hospital expanded its mission to
include prenatal and maternity care.
2003
Children's Village of Hope,
a campus-style setting, opened its first building and became the new site for
Rainbow of Love Nursery and Hope Institute for Handicapped Children.
2004 Circle
of Older Ones of the Foundation for the Children of Haiti (Cercle des Anciens
de la Fondation Pour les Enfants d'Haiti) was
organized as an alumni organization by young people who grew up at Haiti Home
for Children.
2005
Adult Outpatient Clinic was opened at Hope Hospital.
2010
Catastrophic earthquake strikes Haiti. Fondation Pour Les Enfants
d'Haiti is spared devastation by the earthquake that destroys much of
Port-au-Prince. Thousands of patients are treated at Hope Hospital.
Supplies, donations, and medical volunteers are sent because it is known that
the Foundation has a long track record of using resources wisely and that it is
already operational providing service to the Haitian people.
