Beans are growing in four communities! An exciting update where our friends in Haiti are growing beans – in two different varieties – with the seeds we helped them pay for. They know their land, and the seasons, and the availability of water. Next steps: full irrigation system for growing and not having to rely […]
Category Archives: Feeding People
07
Nov
Nov
We’ve been hard at work expanding projects beyond roofs and houses. In addition to sending seven kids to school this month (a solid step towards strengthening generations to come in the Ranquitte region, and one which our local contacts see as essential), we’ve helped take a first step towards a Haitian-imagined initiative to grow crops […]
Coronavirus Response, Feeding People, Latest News
Seventy Families Fed As Part of Coronavirus Response
21
May
May
You fed these people. Seventy families in the Ranquitte region each received seven pounds of beans, seven pounds of rice, and a bottle of cooking oil this week thanks to your recent donations. This is another Haitian initiative. We asked what was needed most during Covid response. Our Haitian contacts told us that there […]
20
Jan
Jan
A few years ago, we learned that a local friend in Haiti was paying out of his own pocket to feed fifty hungry kids in Ranquitte, Haiti. This friend has helped us coordinate projects in one of the rural communities we support, so for him to be burdened with the financial responsibility of feeding local […]
Feeding People, GTPE, Latest News, New Roofs
2019 into 2020: Roofs built, kids fed, with much more news to come
11
Jan
Jan
We are looking forward to 2020 with hope and determination. 2019 was a wild and very difficult year in Haiti. There were disruptive protests throughout the country rooted in a gasoline shortage which kept the political situation very unstable for the better part of the year. Imagine if almost all gas was gone, electricity was […]