Haiti
So the coolest new thing I'm thinking about/working on is this project called New Life for Haiti. It's being spearheaded by a group of churches in the midwest who have decided to actually do something about some of the worst poverty in the world. Rather than sending donations to a big organization and just have a "check in the mail" mentality, they've decided that the best way to make a difference is to do something about it personally. They chose Haiti because of the long time relationship that LifeSpring Community Church has had with Dr. Katie Wolf and Steve and Joline Moore who have previously worked longterm in another section of Haiti. This region where New Life for Haiti is focusing is one of the least served areas of Haiti and most impoverished. The Gatineau area has one hospital, in the port city of Jeremie, and no medical care available in its extensively mountainous area. The first goal is to build and staff an outpatient clinic. The project hopes to help Haitians help themselves by giving them ways to defeat their poverty - education, agricultural resources, hiring them for the jobs the project generates.
What really excites me is the person to person approach. It's not a check to some big organization, it's my money spend on the cinderblock building the clinic, the antibiotic that saves someone's life, the surgury table that means someone doesn't die bearing a child. It's my money paying another Haitian teacher's salary so instead of one teacher and 50+ students, there's two. My money that fixes the roof so it doesn't cave in on the kids heads.
Better yet, it doesn't even take a lot of my money. The average salary is $300 a year. A better home is about $750. For a $100 I can do so much to make someone's life better. And it won't be a check in the mail, I can meet these people. My children can sponsor these kids and know who they're sponsoring. It's a relationship, a person.
Dr. Wolf, Cherlie (a Haitian nurse working with Dr. Wolf), Steve and Joline Moore and Dr. Rene (another partner) were at LifeSpring talking about New Life for Haiti a few weeks ago. Here is a webcast of that interview.
Can you see why I'm so excited?
What really excites me is the person to person approach. It's not a check to some big organization, it's my money spend on the cinderblock building the clinic, the antibiotic that saves someone's life, the surgury table that means someone doesn't die bearing a child. It's my money paying another Haitian teacher's salary so instead of one teacher and 50+ students, there's two. My money that fixes the roof so it doesn't cave in on the kids heads.
Better yet, it doesn't even take a lot of my money. The average salary is $300 a year. A better home is about $750. For a $100 I can do so much to make someone's life better. And it won't be a check in the mail, I can meet these people. My children can sponsor these kids and know who they're sponsoring. It's a relationship, a person.
Dr. Wolf, Cherlie (a Haitian nurse working with Dr. Wolf), Steve and Joline Moore and Dr. Rene (another partner) were at LifeSpring talking about New Life for Haiti a few weeks ago. Here is a webcast of that interview.
Can you see why I'm so excited?
posted by Charlotte Wyncoop at 6:55 PM
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