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…
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…
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….
We would like to thank all you goodhearted donors that kept the wheel rolling. Your prayers and money are very much needed. About $87,000 was spent this year and about $80,000 has been received. We have always told Raymond he needs to spend what he must, and we would find the funding. Raymond is frugal…
Greetings to all: Hurricane Matthew hit the west end of Haiti real hard. Food-bearing trees are all gone. Everything in their gardens is gone. The only thing left is the sweet potatoes. No leaves left on anything. We lost three churches. Many homes are completely gone. Homes made with block walls lost their roofs. Of…
Hurricane Matthew took off many of their grass roofs. Hope for Haiti replaced 175 roofs with metal roofing in a cottage roof design. Hope for Haiti had no say in who got new roofs. They needed to carry their water 2-3 miles and up 2500 ft of elevation. So, water was precious. In that community…
Hurricane Matthew caused catastrophic damage and a humanitarian crisis in Haiti in September of 2016. They have no government programs for disasters. Every man stands on his own or with his friends.
Raymond observed the lack of roads hampered the flow of commerce. Raymond found an old Cat in the bush which he secured the right to its usage though his Senator friend. The steering crutches and brakes did not work. With the lack of the capacity to steer, while backing up dragging the blade, he had…
Hope for Haiti built a road into 3 communities that had no auto service. So, they had no health care. You lived or you died. Like Raymond said he didn’t think you could find a Band-Aid in those communities. Hope for Haiti built an airstrip for the large new hospital which gave the incoming doctors…
On one 10- mile section of road, on the original trial, the travelers had to cross the river 64 times but with the new road that Hope for Haiti built, they only needed to cross the river 2 times but if the river was up, they couldn’t cross at all. A donor provided 2 bridges,…
Raymond hired 20 Haitian to build terraces which he had observed in Tibet. He would hire them in 2-week intervals. A person would need to volunteer to help 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…
The land has been denuded of trees which were converted to charcoal. Raymond started a nursery to repopulate the area. It is noted that the area around the nursery has a lot of large trees, with some 60 ft tall and 20 inches in diameter. They are reluctant to harvest the trees because they look…
Hope for Haiti assessed Good News with the completion of the Lastic Irrigation project. The project was started by the Japanese with put in 5.5 miles of 15inch PVC pipe which could move water down the mountain with an elevation drop of 2600 feet. There is 575 acres to be irrigated which would provide a…