White Cross Ball

What does your contribution support?

Blessed Gerard's Elderly Assistance Centers

Most of the proceeds are destined to efforts to serve the poor and the sick in Cuba. We have partnered with the Catholic Church on the island to provide services to 60 distribution points across parishes and institutions on the island. This includes three assistance centers of the Sisters of Mary, 2 seminaries and a children's day-care center. More than one million meal rations provided yearly to the elderly across the island. In partnership with other organizations (e.g. Cross-Catholic Outreach, Feed my Starving Children), delivery of food and other goods for distribution by the Catholic Church.

$10,000 can fully feed a comedor in Cuba for three months
$10,000 can cover the costs of transportation & distribution of 250,000 meal rations across the Island

Medical Missions

Medical mission to the ILAC Center in the Dominican Republic, and other centers in Haiti and Colombia, staffed by doctors affiliated with the Order of Malta. Traveling team includes 90 doctors, nurses, specialists and other volunteers. A typical three-day mission will serve individuals with upwards of 3,000 case visits, 50 general anesthesia surgeries and provide medications exceeding $125,000 in value.

$5,000 helps supply one Medical Mission to the Dominican Republic with non-pharmaceutical medical supplies
$10,000 can provide surgical supplies for one Medical Mission to the Dominican Republic
$25,000 can provide eye surgery at Bascom Palmer for an adolescent patient first seen at a Medical Mission
$40,000 helps defray the costs (transport, anesthesia, food, etc.) of a needed surgical intervention in the US for an adolescent patient first seen at a Medical Mission in the ILAC Center
$40,000 helps re-supply medication, and nursing and doctor visits to the Alma de Cibao dispensaries in the Dominican Republic
$7,500 can provide a full scholarship to a medical student in the DUNI project in indigenous parts of Colombia

Miami Projects

The provision of health care, social services, and humanitarian aid to the poor of South Florida, particularly undocumented immigrants. Assistance through the "Casa de Malta" to the poor and needy of St. John Bosco Parish: includes a food bank; workshop training on life skills; and basic medical assistance. Founding Sponsors of the St. John Bosco free medical clinic: originally a partnership with Mercy Hospital and Order of Malta doctors, now located on the grounds of Corpus Christi Parish.

$7,500 can resupply the Orden de Malta food bank at St. Mary's Cathedral in Miami
$10,000 can double the volume of food supplies for the elderly and poor served by Casa de Malta at St. Juan Bosco Parish in Miami
$25,000 can fully fund a Medical health fair for the poor in the Greater Miami area