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Bishop Sullivan, Diocese of Brooklyn, was a beloved Church
leader who recently died as a result of injuries sustained in a car
accident. At the time of his death, Bishop Sullivan was entering his
tenth year of service as a member of CMMB’s Board of Directors, two of
them as Board chairman.
In support of the memorial fund, we have already received a $2
million challenge grant for the building of the Bishop Joseph M.
Sullivan Center for Health in Cotes-de-Fer, Haiti. The Center will be a
30-bed facility serving a catchment area of 55,000 Haitians, who
currently lack access to quality health care facilities.
Building on our century of health care delivery in Haiti, we’ve
selected Cotes-de-Fer as the first site for the implementation of CHAMPS
(CHildren And Mothers PartnershipS). Recently unveiled by CMMB as the
core of its strategic direction, the crux of the CHAMPS model is a
15-year commitment to build healthy, sustainable communities in
geographic areas of focus via community engagement and partnerships.
Through this model, in each location, we’ll work in partnership with an
existing in-region health system and focus on mothers and children under
five years of age. In addition to Cotes-de-Fer, CHAMPS sites are being
planned for geographic areas of need in Peru, Kenya and Zambia.
We’re excited about this new strategic development and wanted
you, our most loyal supporters to hear about it first. We thank you for
your continued support of CMMB, and look forward to sharing more about
our CHAMPS model and the Bishop Joseph Sullivan Memorial Fund for Women
and Children with you soon.
Sincerely,
Bruce Wilkinson
President & CEO
Catholic Medical Mission Board
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