News
New employee
Jenny Roth has been working in the office in Aettenschwil since 1 May. The trained commercial clerk lives in the same village. She supports us in all areas of administration and relieves us very much. Welcome!
Solar project off the blocks
Miranda Bammert and Victoria Hansson had the great pleasure of kicking off the solar project when they visited Haiti at the end of May 2019. Solar panels will be constructed in a joint project between “Help a child” from Germany, “Tianjglad” from France, and the...
2019 Annual General Meeting
The fourth annual general meeting of the Förderverein Kinderheim Maison des Anges Haiti association took place on Saturday, April 13, 2019. A lively group met in Muri to decide on a variety of issues , one of them being an amendment to the articles of association. The...
More sun, less diesel
Generous financial support from Freiamt allowed 70 children at the Maison des Anges children's home in Haiti to be given a six-month course of medication, bringing the tuberculosis outbreak under control. For the next project, Miranda Bammert-Zahn and her team will be...
Second volunteer en route to Haiti
Today, Cécile Piller is flying from Geneva, via Paris, to Haiti. As part of her social worker training, she will be completing a four-month internship at the Maison des Anges children’s home. We wish her a good flight, and hope that she has many rewarding experiences...
Summer camp
Although Haiti is a peninsula, surrounded by ocean, most of the children at Maison des Anges have never seen the sea. For two weeks, we took them them out of the noisy, chaotic and humid capital to summer camp at Léogåne. In addition to seeing the ocean for the first...
The Black Hole is being renovated
Cooking for 120 children, plus staff, on a daily basis, is a challenge. Over the years (and without an extractor hood), it leaves its mark. A generous donation has allowed us to tackle renovating the Black Hole, also known as the kitchen. While the work is being done,...
Gladys Maximilien visits Switzerland
We had the pleasure of welcoming Gladys Maximilien, manager of the Maison des Anges children’s home, to Switzerland for a few days. We took her visit as an opportunity to organize a party in the woods with all of the families in Switzerland who have sponsored a...
Medication to fight tuberculosis
Tuberculosis will continue to keep us busy for a while yet, as treatment lasts for at least six months in each case, and a new TB infection could still spread. That said, we believe that we have the disease under control for now. In addition to giving medication to...