Social Support's Role of the Church.

   Through its charitable organizations the Church has an important function of social support. Most of the Christian Churches help, in a charismastic way, their worshipers and the "pariahs" of the world. In Haiti, the Catholic Action and the Baptist and the Adventist Missions have perceptible charitable activities.
   During the colonial period and the Spanish ocupation of South and Central Americas the dominican father, Las Casas, spoke out for a temporal action of the Church,, in order to allievate the misery of the depossessed native Amerindians and the exported African slaves, and in oder to end their genocide. Presently, the franciscan catholic brothers have become, in South and Central Americas, by their 'Liberation Theology', the politico-social activists in favor of the basic human rights which are these, for every human being, to have a good nutrition, dwelling and clothings; those rights are naturally forgotten in our competitive society.
    Roman catholic sister Mother Theresa, in spite of her old age, has traveled throughout the world, during the years 1980s, to help people and governments alleviate material human sufferings. At Kenscof. in Haiti, and in other rural areas (Deschapelles, La tortue, etc.) of this country, the reformist Christian churches, in particular the baptist, adventist and Methodist confessions hold some simple medical outpatient clinics, called dispensaries, that offer free medical cares to the poor people of the rural and urban areas. In a very populated slum, called Cité Soleil, at Port-au-Prince, there is a medico-sanitary compound hold, mostly, by some charitable local and international organizations and assisted by Roman catholic sisters, who look sometimes very stressed due to the amount of work.