Basil Pesto Cooking Lessons in Haiti
Tonight’s cooking class was homemade pesto spaghetti from the basil in our new garden. Pumpkins, carrots, and peppers are on the way. Tomatoes and onions will be planted next week too. It’s our own fall harvest!
Visiting Jeremie
Mitch Albom is currently visiting the Have Faith Haiti Mission and will be sending updates. Here is one:
This is what Jeremie, on the coast, looks like 10 days after Hurricane. Homes gone. No food. Crops blown away. Water, medicine, in dire short supply. Many of our staff have their families there. We are organizing a bus and trip there to feed and clothe their loved ones.
Cleaning up Matthew
A former volunteer currently in Haiti was able to visit the mission. The children are in good health and spirits. Some of the staff members are still waiting to hear from their family members on the south coast, which was hit the hardest and where all communication is down.
Here, kids are helping to clean up the bougainvillea bush that came down.
Thank you all for your kind support. If you could keep the family members of our staff who are still unaccounted for, we would be grateful.
Back-to-School Shopping at Have Faith Haiti
Yesterday, three adult supervisors took 11 students from Have Faith Haiti that had earned the privilege to shop to a local store. Each received $20.00 ($5.00 of each donation purchased paper, pencils, pens, crayons and other needed supplies for the whole group. They received their $20 in 4-$5.00 bills and instructions to first purchase a backpack and use the remaining money for personal school supplies or items for other children at the mission.
Due to political and safety issues in Haiti, we are not able to take all the kids out at once. The 11 students selected had received most improved and best behaved for the entire year. We purchased backpacks and supplies for the remaining children, who will shop from the Mission “store” with the same budget and instructions. Lessons taught from supply shopping were about money, respect, being courteous, figuring how much everything cost and when it is on sale.
The kids did great and averaged $15.00 per child. They have asked if they could give away the money left over or use it to buy more school supplies for other kids.
All of this is possible through your generous donations.
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Bianka and Bedengy waiting in line
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Djuline Nahoum Louvenson waiting patiently to check out
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They have never seen mannequins before! Bianka was intrigued by them and the clothes they had on
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Widley pays at the register
2017 now live!
Life-Saving Dental Care in Haiti
Alabama-based dentist Dr. Keri Miller once again brought her team from East Alabama Pediatric Dentistry to provide free dental services to the children of Have Faith Haiti. The kids took their cleanings and cavity-filling like champs, even if a few needed some hand-holding. (more…)
About the Mission
The Have Faith Haiti Mission is a special place of love and caring, dedicated to the safety, education, health and spiritual development of Haiti’s impoverished children and orphans. You can learn more here.
