Fidelis Community Shares Haiti Mission and Raises Funds at UW Catholic Community, Advent Retreat - Nov. 2010

Central Mission to Haiti - Sale of Jewelry from Domay - submitted by Mary Stevens, Jan. 2011

Every Advent, the University of Waterloo Catholic Community women hold an Advent Retreat morning at Notre Dame.  This year, Fran Morrison approached the organizing committee to allow CLC to speak about our mission to Haiti and to sell jewelry from the artisans working for Domay, the collective in the Dominican Republic.  The committee accepted CLC’s request and on November 27^th, Mary Stevens from Fruitful Garden spoke about the Jesuit initiatives of both support for education – in particular the education of girls in a matriarchal society – and for documentation.  The welcome and support of the group of women was extremely generous.  CLC Central was blessed with considerable donations and jewelry sales.  What was particularly heartening was that many members of UCC expressed an interest in repeating the opportunity to assist Haitians in a similar manner again.