Dr. Dominique Matthews with a patient

St. Clare’s has actively participated in the Haiti Outreach Mission (HOM) since 2004, providing significant fundraising and financial support (over $250,000) and leadership. Founded in 1999, HOM is a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) ecumenical organization that provides aid to the people of Mirebalais, Haiti through the St. Pierre Episcopal and St. Louis Catholic churches.

Up until April 2025, HOM supported the St. Pierre medical/dental clinic, with a full-time physician and a full-time dentist, where service to all children was free. HOM also provided financial and maintenance help to 4 local schools and a water treatment facility. These efforts resulted in greatly improved medical and educational resources in Mirebalais.

Mission trips over the years to Mirebalais by 20-25 volunteers, many of whom were health care professionals, provided additional medical and dental treatments as well as suitcases of donated medical supplies.

In April 2025 however, violent gangs from Port-au-Prince succeeded in overrunning Mirebalais. The churches and our facilities were all abandoned as the clergy and staff, along with the clinic medical team, fled the city to the safety of the surrounding countryside. In response, HOM continued their financial support to Fr. Alphonse (St. Pierre) and Fr. Romel (St. Louis) but directed it to be used for humanitarian aid for the refugees shelters in their areas. It provided food and lodging assistance for those who had left their homes with nothing. Additional funds have been sent to Fr. Alphonse, who, with members of the former clinic staff, have been operating a Mobile Clinic to provide medical care to refugees and residents of the towns surrounding Mirebalais.

Through directed donations and a portion of the fall Wine Auction proceeds, St. Clare’s congregants provide Outreach funds to HOM for their life-giving assistance to the Haitian people in the region surrounding our former facilities in Mirebalais. Please pray that the violence and anarchy will cease in their country and consider donating to HOM’s efforts to provide aid and assistance.

To read an August 2026 update on the situation and work in Mirebalais, please click here.