After visiting Haiti in 2016, helping those in need there has become a great passion.
Our Mission as a 501c3
Our organization has thus far designed and developed four programs in furtherance of our purposes.
Our first program focuses on support for orphanages in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. We provide food, clothing, hygiene supplies, school supplies, educational materials, bedding, and toys. Volunteers travel to Haiti to distribute these supplies and to complete improvement projects such as setting up a pantry to store food, providing and stocking storage for each child and caregiver, and repairing living quarters. We have made five trips to Haiti over the past two years. We plan to continue these efforts and to expand this program to meet a wider array of needs, including establishing funds to pay for the medical and dental needs of the children.
Our second program seeks to provide food, shelter, and basic infrastructure in struggling communities in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, with a particular focus on the village of La Saline, among the poorest neighborhoods in the Western Hemisphere. On trips to Haiti, our volunteers hold community feedings during which we supply, prepare, and serve meals to residents who suffer from hunger and malnutrition. We also work to rebuild damaged homes, some of which have remained barely habitable since the earthquake in 2010. We are currently working with a local Port-au-Prince organization to build a drainage system through La Saline to capture and divert the sewerage that floods into homes. We are in the research and planning phase for a project to install solar street lights for the village, as most of the community is without electricity and in complete darkness at night. In the future, we plan to continue these efforts and to expand our services, including but not limited to the following:
· Sponsoring schools to provide lunch – sometimes the only meal children eat for the day.
· Sponsoring families to start small businesses, such as selling food in the market and raising chickens or goats.
· Establishing funds to pay for OB-GYN care for local women.
· Sponsoring families for food support.
· Creating Haiti’s first food pantry.
· Assisting residents with sustainable gardening and farming efforts to grow some of their own fresh food.
Our third program is a sponsorship program to allow children from Port-au-Prince to attend school. As there is no free public education in Haiti, children are unable to attend school without paying for uniforms, books, supplies, and tuition – expenses far beyond the means of most families. Our organization allows sponsors in our home area to donate to cover school for a specific child. This is our pilot year, and we secured sponsorships to send 12 children to elementary school for 2018-2019. In the future, we hope to expand the program to sponsor additional children for primary and secondary school, vocational training for teenagers and young adults, and college for children from local families and orphanages.
Our fourth program works to aid street dogs in Haiti. On our volunteer trips to the orphanage and the neighborhoods of Port-au-Prince, we were moved by the suffering of these dogs, who endure hunger and exposure to the elements. Our efforts currently focus on feeding dogs while they remain homeless, obtaining sponsors to cover food and medical treatment, and finding families to adopt dogs whenever possible. Our future plans include fundraising to pay to have street dogs spayed and neutered.
What We've Achieved
Over 200 families provides with food.
2 families provided with a home.
Over 25 children sent to school, who would otherwise not have the opportunity.
A business started for 4 families to help them earn money to feed their children.
Medical attention for several children in need.
Essentials provided to an orphanage in need.