How You can Help Support C.O.C.I.N.A.’s Mission in Northeast Haiti
Financial Support
Several major foundation grants have terminated, so COCINA needs $300,000 in new funding from other sources to adequately support ongoing operations of the school and clinic. The total funding support that COCINA needs to provide for the ongoing operations of Institution Univers and Univers Medical Center in the fiscal year starting September 1, 2011 is $736,000. This is a 28% year-to-year increase in the needed COCINA funding subsidy for operations.
This fiscal year operating subsidy is needed because: 1) The clinic shifted from operating 45 hours per week to adding staff and being open 24 hours per day, 7 days a week because of increased local demand for clinic services, 2) The clinic needs to hire a professional Medical Director to oversee the 35-person Haitian staff and the types and quality of medical services provided, 3) Increased school salary expenses due to raising salaries and needing more teaching staff for the 2200 students that are enrolled for the 2011-12 school year, 4) Increased administrator salaries, 5) Major move to replace worn-out textbooks.
Students’ parents provide only one-fourth of the operating costs of Institution Univers. Patient fees provide only about 50% of the operating expenses of Univers Medical Center. Because of the poverty level of most of the residents in the area, that’s all the students and clinic patients can afford to pay. The rest has to come from other sources---mainly COCINA donors.
Your tax-deductible donation to COCINA (a 501-c-3 charitable organization) can be processed through PayPal. For more information, CLICK HERE.
 Please consider and pray about giving a contribution to support these worthy programs in Ouanaminthe. The administrators and staff of the school and clinic are able to do miracles with their talents and limited resources to “help rebuild Haiti ~ one life at a time.” But, in this poor country and in the northeastern region, all rebuilding of lives requires substantial outside resources. Write on the memo line of your check if you want to direct your contribution to either the school or clinic or to a particular program. Otherwise it will be treated as a general contribution and used where it is most needed. Make your check payable to C.O.C.I.N.A. and mail to P.O. Box 12695, Columbus, Ohio 43212. Here are a variety of operating expense items related to the school and clinic that your contributions could support:
- $40 would provide COCINA’s subsidy for a daily hot lunch for one student for a whole school year. Students pay $13 per school year, which is all most students’ families can afford.
- $10-$20 would buy a textbook. Many students lack textbooks.
- $95 would provide a full tuition scholarship (for one year) for an elementary student whose family is unable to pay the required tuition
- 550 would pay the monthly salary of a nurse
- $3,600 contribution would provide COCINA’s operating subsidy for an elementary classroom of 35-40 students; the donor would, in effect, be “sponsoring” a selected class of students
- $1600 contribution would pay one month’s salary for one of the clinic’s physicians
- Contact Hugues Bastien (huguesbastien@haiticocina.org) or Pastor Dave Mann (dmann@haiticocina.org) in Ouanaminthe if you or your church want to consider providing a full scholarship for an I.U. graduate to attend college either in the U.S. or Haiti.
If you have any questions about donating to COCINA, contact COCINA Vice-President of Finance at bgillette@haiticocina.org
CLICK HERE for a pre-printed contribution mail-in form.
Gift “In Honor of” program
Consider giving a contribution in honor of someone as a birthday present, Christmas present or special friendship. And, consider giving to COCINA in memory of a loved one. CLICK HERE to download a donation card for giving “in honor of” or “in memory of” someone who is or has been special to you. For contributions “in honor of” someone special, COCINA will mail to you a card that you can mail to the person you are honoring.
Other Ways You can Help COCINA’s Mission
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