Home Page   Churches and Schools   Sponsorship   Child In Need   His House   Work Projects   Love Expressed Fund   Trip Photos   FAQ   About Us   Partner Ministry   Contact Us   Newsletter   His Hands for Africa	Danda, Haiti In October of 2006, 71 children from the community of Danda were added to the Sponsorship Program of His Hands for Haiti. (left) L'eglise Baptiste de Danda (below) A view of the inside of L'eglise Baptiste de Danda The Baptist church in Danda has about 400 members. Pastor Elima Etienne, pictured below with his assistant, Frandieu Jean-Jacques, has been the Pastor in Danda since 1975. Before coming to Danda, Pastor Elima was an assistant to Pastor Noel in Terrier Rouge and he refers to Pastor Noel as his "father in the faith". Danda (which means "Silly People") is a small community of approximately 1,000 people 18 kilometers from Terrier Rouge in a very remote, very rural area that feels like the end of the earth. There are 14 smaller "habitations" in the area surrounding Danda and the combined population of all these areas is approximately 4,000 to 5,000 people. (right) A view looking towards L'eglise Baptiste de Danda, which is the building on the left-hand side of the photo (below) A view looking up the road that leads into Danda and away from the church Because Danda is a very rural area, most of the people survive as subsistence farmers. Pastor Elima arranges for agronomists to come to Danda twice a year to help instruct the people on more modern and successful ways of growing their own food. The church has a school as one of their many ministries. This school has approximately 300 students in their preschool and primary school class levels 1 through 6. The building on the right of the photo is the old church building which is being used by the school and is in desperate need of rehabilitation. The school in Danda prepares a meal for the children when they have food from the World Food Program. Another one of the ministries of the Danda Baptist Church is their clinic. This clinic, which has been operating for 10 years, is open to see patients Monday through Friday, with 3 nurses, a lab technician, pharmacists, and other support staff including someone from the church to counsel and pray with any patients who wish to have this type of assistance. Because this clinic is the only health care facility in the area, they see approximately 60 patients a day which helps make the clinic fully self-supported. (left) The nurses who work at the clinic come from the city of Cap-Haitien on Monday morning and stay the week in this house which is owned by the church. The church also operates its own grinding mill. People from all over the area bring their corn here to be ground into cornmeal. (right) This building houses the grinding mill of L'eglise Baptiste de Danda Danda may be a small community in a remote area but there is a lot of activity there, much of it connected to L'eglise Baptiste and their many outreach ministries.
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