1064 Premier St., Pittsburgh, PA 15201 | 412-784-0342 | info@flmhaiti.org
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Functional Literacy Ministry of Haiti (FLM) is a Christian nonprofit organization, founded in 1983, that works with the people of Laboule, Boutilliers, Kenscoff, and Thomassin, south of Port-au-Prince to bring stability to their lives through education, health care, and cause for hope in a better future. FLM's government-certified school in Thomassin provides an education—and daily hot lunch—to more than 600 children. Its community health center provides medical care and offers health education to people in the surrounding area. Until the earthquake, FLM operated sixty adult literacy centers in and around Port-au-Prince, providing reading and basic math skills to thousands of individuals. FLM's staff in Haiti (more than one hundred teachers, medical personnel, and administrators) are all Haitian. FLM believes that the future of Haiti lies in its own people, and to that end all of our efforts are designed with the goals of fostering leadership and problem-solving skills among those we serve, encouraging development of the skills necessary to seek or create employment, and making it possible for Haitians to raise their children to be healthy, productive citizens. As a Christ-centered organization, we strive to develop relationships between Christians in the U.S. and Haiti. Twice a year medical and educational teams from this country—from Buffalo to Miami, from Boston to Texas--travel to Haiti to provide medical care and training, to offer a vacation Bible school, and to assist the clinic and school staff in setting and carrying out goals. While all of our services are offered without regard to the religion of the recipients, we delight in the fact that our work makes it possible for Haitians and Americans alike to understand and experience the love of God. FLM is an all-volunteer organization. Our funds primarily come from individual donors and from churches. We have a history of parlaying relatively small amounts of money into something miraculous. We have been able to acquire hundreds of thousands of dollars of donated medicines and supplies, and to take advantage of the donated services of our volunteers and groups like the Building Goodness Foundation. The Functional Literacy Ministry of Haiti is incorporated in Pennsylvania, and its financial records are on file with the Pa. Department of State. We are a 501(c)(3) organization under the rules of the IRS. We do our work in Haiti under the auspices of the Association d'Action Chrétienne, an organization certified by the Haitian government as a nongovernmental organization under its laws. |
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