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- We are four grassroots organizations working together
- What is our mission?
  
  Father Joseph Network USA
  
  40 years ago Father Joseph Philippe, CSSP, began to create grassroots organizations to uplift the rural poor in Haiti. Today, his vision includes a farmer's union, the country's biggest micro-finance bank, a university and a religious order of women.
  Imagine these four non-profit organizations working together. That is the job of Father Joseph Network. To facilitate collaboration between the NGOs on large-scale projects, to increase their reach and have a greater impact on the lives of rural Haitians.
  Father Joseph Network USA was created in 2021 to raise funds and bring technical and logistical assistance to such cross-over projects.
The Four Organizations of the NETWORK
- A Farmer's Union
  APF
  The Peasant Association of Fondwa, APF, has been helping to organize the rural poor since it was founded by Father Joseph, in 1988.
  APF Enel Beaulieu and Jean Pierre Philippe and FJN USA Director Anne Petrov
- A Microfinance Bank
  Fonkoze
  Haiti's largest micro-finance bank, Fonkoze, has been serving the organized poor, and especially women, throughout the country since it was founded by Father Joseph, in 1994.
  49 Branch offices throughout Haiti
- A 5-year University
  UNIF
  The University of Fondwa, UNIF, the first university in rural Haiti, was founded in 2004. It confers five-year degrees in business, agronomy and veterinary medicine.UNIF graduatesUNIF Administration
- A Religious Order
  CSSAF
  
  The Congregation of the Sisters of St. Anthony of Fondwa, CSSAF, was founded by Father Joseph, in 1996. It runs a school, orphanage and vocational programs for adults.
  Sr. Simone and Sr Céline
  Sr. Simone and students
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- Moving From Charity to the Spirit of Entrepreneurship
  Father Joseph Network nurtures collaboration between the four organizations founded by Father Joseph Philippe, CSSP.
  This nation-wide network is helping to organize and empower the economically poor in rural Haiti, so they can transform their own lives and give back to their communities.
  You can help FJN USA raise funds, provide technical assistance and become ambassadors for FJN's impactful work.
- Father Joseph in Haiti
- Father Joseph in Washington, DC
Sustainable Farm Schools

Your donation can help build
- Stop erosion and feed Haiti more abundantly
  
  Eroded farmland can become and edible forest
- Frédéric Sauvadet, French permaculture expert is the guest of FJN until February 2025
  
  Frederic with Fondwa farmerAgr Lesly Joseph instructs at the University of Fondwa
- Ecosystem restoration, agroforestry, microfarms
  
  FJN is working with APF and UNIF to create hands-on, full-scale, outdoor spaces for teaching the principles of climate-smart, sustainable agriculture and ecosystem restoration.
  Hosted by the University of Fondwa, these farm-schools will welcome everybody to observe these new techniques.
  Everyone can lend a hand: farming families, university and high school students, agronomists, elected officials.
  Follow the Fondwa Agroforestry farm school on Frédéric's website.
  https://www.frederic-sauvadet.com/mission-en-haiti-microferme-et-agriculture-de-regeneration/
Help the AKESNA nuns of Haiti
- Sisters of the AKESNA order of Compagnons of JesusAnne Petrov, Executive Director FJN USA with Sister Céline of the AKESNA Order of Saint Anthony of Fondwa
  Agr Lesly Joseph, Director of FJN Haiti and Dean of the University of Fondwa teaches IT skills to AKESNA nuns in Fondw
- Since 1988, the network of AKESNA congregations (Haiti's indigenous Catholic orders) have been doing God's work : feeding the poor, providing education and vocational training to children and adults, caring for the aged, running orphanages and farms.
  Many nuns reside in the most remote villages of Haiti, with no electricity, roads or running water. Others live in the cities, and care for the extreme poor, saving street children from the grip of gangs.
  FJN and the AKESNA Sisters became beneficiaries of the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, Catholic Sisters Initiative, providing education to the nuns including: GEDs, vocations, religious fomation and university scholarships.
  
  The locations of the AKESNA orders of Haiti
your Donation can help Haiti develop its own resources
- LDCs develop local resources
  
  FJN has helped to create 35 LDCs in Haiti.
- Local Development Committees (LDC) develop locally-available resources for the benefit of all people living in the same rural district. LDC members are municipal representatives, business-owners, and farmers.
  So far, APF has created 35 LDCs throughout the country. Now, the LDCs are drawing on the other organizations of Father Joseph's network.
  FJN is helping to bring the hard-working AKESNA nuns and brothers to join their local LDC. And each LDC will select their 3 brightest students to attend UNIF, on full scholarship.
  With your help, FJN USA can develop a network of LDCs, to rebuild Haiti.
  Creating an LDC in southern Haiti, in the district of Jacmel La Vallée
Come join us!
- Cultivate the gifts of humanity we have been blessed to use.
  
  Click below to send your donations using the Donate page.
  You may send your check to:
  Father Joseph Network USA Inc.2324 S. Congress Avenue,
  Suite 2F Palm Beach, FL 33406
  
  If you have any questions please contact Anne Petrov, PhD, Director FJN USA at:
  [email protected]
  (301) 957-0749
  
  Father Joseph Network USA is a Section 501(c)(3) non-profit with public charity status 170(b)(1)(A)(vi)
  Employee Identification Number : 85-3042310.
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