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**Nine months ago the doctor for the Cayes prison, who is also a deacon at the Simon Baptist Church (the church that is the closest to the mission center where RMI’s headquarters are located), came to RMI to request help in feeding the population of the prison.  It is overpopulated and the prisoners’ are malnourished and suffer from many health conditions.  The police’s resources are very minimal, leaving little for providing meals and other amenities for prisoners.  Usually, prisoners rely on family and friends to bring them food from the outside.  Conditions are really rough.  

What an opportunity to be the hands and feet of Jesus! Every month, RMI’s Food for Health Program has been delivering as much food as it can spare.  The 900+ prisoners are getting fed a hot, nutritious meal three times a week.  In fact, when supplies run low, the head of the prison will call RMI’s leadership to remind them to bring the food.  The police are very appreciative of the help and really see the difference it is making in the prisoners.

**Besides providing a uniform, books, and supplies and the opportunity to go to school, one of the things provided for a sponsored kid through RMI’s Hope for Kidz Child Sponsorship Program, is an emergency medical fund.  One use of that fund is the annual deworming of every child in every school.  This year 14,800 children were given deworming medication.  Worms are a significant issue in Haiti and this is one way we can help these kids.

In the last 12 months, 25 students have received emergency care.  There are broken arms and legs, but in many cases, this care is literally life-saving.  Here is a sample of some of the interventions that have taken place:

• a young boy swallowed a piece of a razor blade
• a girl had pneumonia and was struggling to breathe
• a boy had a very large growth on his neck, making his every breath a struggle
• a boy had a hernia, leaving him unable to stand and breathing difficult

In each case the treatments or surgeries were successful and the child is back in school.  We so appreciate our sponsors and thought you’d like to know how you’re transforming their lives!

**If you want to find RMI on YouTube, here is what to look for:  www.youtube.com/@RMIBridgeorg

**It’s good for the body of Christ to gather together.  After 4 years and several canceled trips, the team from McGregor Baptist Church (FL) made it to Cote de Fer earlier this month.  Among the team members was RMI’s own bookkeeper, Julie Fuller (giving her greeting in the Sunday morning service)!  

It was a special week of finally being able to worship and fellowship together as one body.  There was a deacon meeting, an afternoon of chaotic fun with school kids from the Cote de Fer school and the local public school, and two days of trips to two remote satellite churches to meet with the sponsored kids.  Their goal was to meet and take pictures of as many sponsored kids as possible.