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About Us:
History
Mission
F.E.H.
Annual Summary
Our Work:
Orphanage
School
Nursery
Special Needs
Hospital
Village
Adoption
Success!
Construction
Our Leader:
Gladys
Message
Prior Messages
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SUCCESS!
CERCLE DES ANCIENS DE LA FONDATION
POUR LES ENFANTS D'HAITI
(Circle of Older Ones of the
Foundation
for the Children of Haiti)
Some might say that success can be quantified:
How many children are housed and fed? How many are adopted? How many
patients are treated? True, these are important indicators and measures.
However, FEH and USFCH have recently been witness to a profound report on our
success.
During 2004 a group of young people who grew up at Haiti Home
joined together to form an alumni association which they call Cercle des Anciens
de la Fondation pour les Enfants d'Haiti. The adults pictured above were
among those living in the orphanage when the first volunteers and Gladys took it
over. Now they are self-supporting, socially contributing adults.
Their purpose in coming together is threefold:
 | Find and reconnect with their
childhood friends. |
| Thank Gladys Sylvestre Thomas and
others for the home and education provided to them as children. |
| Mentor children now growing up
without family. |
We are proud
of these young people!
They give us hope for the future!
In February,
2005 Cercle des Anciens organized a gala event at the Montana Hotel in
Port-au-Prince. Gladys Sylvestre Thomas was honored for her years of
dedication to the Fondation Pour les Enfants d'Haiti. Most touching,
however, was the love and appreciation expressed by each of the members of
Cercle des Anciens for the woman they call Momma Sylvestre. As one smartly
dressed young woman said, "When I was little and you disciplined me, I thought
you were wrong. Now I know you were right, and I thank you." -- a
heart-felt testimony to success!
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