What your donations are doing in Haiti
Road Building
Road building is a core part of what we do. When communities have a road linking them to the rest of the country they are able to sell their produce at better prices. Other services and products can reach them much easier. The resulting increase in quality of life is inspiring!
For example, in 2008, Hope for Haiti helped built a small hospital at a cost of a little over $100,000. There had never been any kind of medical help in this area before. The earthquake hit the hospital in 2010 doing lots of damage. When the Red Cross found out about it they said they came and build a new hospital. Since we had built roads into this area they could haul in the material to build with. The new hospital was constructed in 2013 at a cost of about $1,200,000. This hospital is run by another hospital about 20 miles west. Since we installed the last bridge in January 2018 they now can go back and forth to the hospitals without driving through the river.
As an additional benefit, Water for Life has drilled several hundred water wells along the road now that they had a road to drive on.
Tree Nursery Project
The land has been denuded of trees which were converted to charcoal. The nursery supplies about 100,000 trees a year which can be purchased for 2 cents apiece. The nursery is almost self-supporting.
Terraces
Raymond hired 20 Haitian to build terraces which they had observed in Tibet. They would hire them in 2-week intervals. A person would need to volunteer on the Friday and Saturday of the previous week to qualify to get his name in the hat for the next 2 weeks to work for a dollar a day. At times they would have 300 people volunteering for the job. They used a pick, shovel, and hand level to build the terraces.
You can make a difference!
Our annual operating cost runs between $150,000 and $200,000 Your help is always appreciated.
Latest News
2021 Report
Greetings to our sponsors: We have had a good year. We could fix whatever broke and nobody was hurt or killed. They are all safe. With the strife in Haiti, our operation has ground to a halt. Fuel can not be found. But our folks have been and are safe. On a sad note, here…
2018 Update from Raymond
June 23, 2018 It seems that God is not finished with Blessing us in Haiti. Hart Foundation from Canada called and they were wondering if we had a project that they could help with? I didn’t know of anything, but told him I’d check with Kevin, my hired man in Haiti. When I asked him…
Second Bridge Project
This bridge is 135 feet long and is on the same road as the first bridge, so usage is similar. This design was made for a gravel deck which makes it so that animals will cross. A commercial bridge installer who is a customer of Rapid Span was the installer with his crew, for free….