Haiti has so many needs -- pick a topic, and it likely needs support: food, water, housing, medicine, schooling, economic sustainability. Undaunted, we're an army of volunteers with diverse backgrounds and skill sets. We select projects that align with community need, our skills and our inability to say no. We're yes-men and proud of it. You can be a yes man/yes woman too. If one of our projects appeals to you, send us some funds, give us advice, or point us in a direction. Your tax exempt donation will be sent to you. 90% of our budget helps Haitians in need.

Child Sponsorship : Sending a Haitian Child to school is a great way to experience the joys of helping a child in need and making a lasting difference in his or her life. As a sponsor, you will be sent annual photos, report cards, and an occasional note from your school child.

By sponsoring a child, you help a child become self-reliant, productive citizens in their communities. Your donation provides:

• A qualified teacher and school supplies
• Nutritional assistance {e.g., daily vitamins}
• Preventative and curative medical care
• Community programs for clean water & food
• A chance to hear about Christ's love
• A message that someone cares

Your sponsorship can be a 1-time event or you may follow a child through graduation.

Child Sponsorship lets you share a unique relationship with a child.

Sponsor a Nurse or Teacher : We value our dedicated teachers & health care workers. A Haitian teacher makes the equivalency of $88 dollars a month. A nurse makes $103. The Partner with an Educator or Health Care Worker Fund matches you with a teacher or nurse and provides the monthly financial support needed to pay their salaries. Your contribution may also provide continued educational training.

Sponsor a Nurse or Teacher

General / Emergency Relief Fund -- Like Lunch : When catastrophe strikes, the Emergency Relief Fund provides emergency funding for food, clothing, doctors and equipment, as well as for shelter and replacement of belongings for families struggling to survive a tragedy. When there are no active emergencies, your donation funds Haiti Project projects most in need.

Donate to the general / emergency relief fund

Water Project : The Haiti Project collaborates with other groups and foundations who are doing wonderful things to fight third-world poverty. One such organization is the Gift of Water. Communities without running water is the norm. Drinking stagnant or unpurified water leads to sickness and malnutrition.

The Gift of Water developed a cost-effective solution for water purification. The purification process is simple and similar to most public systems in the United States. The Purifier is composed of two 5 gallon buckets that detach. The top bucket is filled and a disinfectant is added – usually chlorine tablets. The bucket sits for 30 minutes, giving time to kill bacteria and parasites. It is then placed on top of the second bucket and allowed to filter. There is a spigot on the lower bucket.

The purifier contains two filters – one for sediment and one for removal of chemicals and disinfectant by-products. Currently, rain water is the primary source of water in Jeannette and is collected in cisterns.

By donating to the water project, you'll help us buy buckets, chlorine tables and repair cisterns that store water during non-rainy seasons [half the year there is NO rain].

Clean Water Update - 2012

St. Marc's and the community of Jeannette are grateful for the water that will be saved and stored under the Presbytere for a dry day. At a cost of $2,000, it was more extensive than expected and has left St. Marc's worried about affording the repairs to the other cisterns. Since financial support to continue cistern repair is needed as part on the ongoing clean water project at St. Marc’s, consider a donation to support this work.

Trade School : Haitians Rebuilding Haiti

Jeannette's trade school building is complete -- and just in time as the process of rebuilding Haiti is underway.

Haitians are ready and eager to learn the trades of electricity, plumbing, tiling, agriculture and sewing; they greatly desire to play a part in rebuilding their country.

All of this work has lead to a spirit of community pride and involvement…even the kids spent an afternoon picking up trash around St. Marc’s while the adults worked on the roof.

To keep the trade school going, more funding is needed. It costs approximately $100 per student to pay the instructors, provide materials and a meal. At the end of each program, the students will hopefully have gained the basic knowledge necessary to continue in a two-year trade school program or get an entry-level construction job. Most importantly, these young people will be able to help their community and Haiti recover and rebuild.

Donate to the Trade School : Your $100 donation puts one student through training.