Since 2005, the West Tennessee Haiti Partnership (WTHP), an agency of the Diocese of West Tennessee, has supported initiatives in Haiti, starting with St. Paul’s School in Montrouis and, since 2008, focusing on St. Vincent’s Center for Handicapped Children in Port-au-Prince. WTHP raises funds to provide medicines, vitamins, food, and clean water, depending on local conditions.
Education
We support the educational needs of St. Vincent’s Center for Handicapped Children in Port-au-Prince and other learning institutions by providing academic supplies, scholarships, assistance with special renovation projects, and more.
Food
We participate in efforts to provide balanced and quality food for less-fed children and adults.
Healthcare
Despite ongoing political violence in Haiti, WTHP continues to support the medical clinic at St. Vincent's by funding the salaries of a physical therapist and a medical doctor for regular visits and covering the cost of medicines and vitamins.
Watch a video of Dr. Pierre-Marie Wooley
Dr. Pierre-Marie Woolley is a trauma and orthopedic surgeon who travels between his family home in Miami, Florida and Port-au-Prince, Haiti, where he serves in the only fully functioning hospital in the Haitian capital. Since 2014, Dr. Woolley has served without salary at the St. Vincent clinic, where he was Medical Director from 2015 to 2018 and continues as a long-standing member of the Board of Directors.
In April 2026 during a visit to West Tennessee, Dr. Wooley presented to St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Collierville, and you may watch a recording of that presentation below.
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