Without him there would be no One Hundred For Haiti. A post from Greg Bennick, founder of One Hundred For Haiti… I met Josue Lajeunesse almost twenty years ago. We were doing interviews for The Philosopher Kings, our documentary about wisdom seen through the eyes of custodians at prestigious universities. Josue is the lead custodian […]
Author Archives: Greg Bennick
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Mar
Mar
We’ve been focused far more in Haiti and far less on updating the site…but half of that is about to change. Our focus in Haiti remains the same, but the site will be updated with all the accomplishments from the last year and a half. MANY houses. DOZENS of students sent to school. HUNDREDS of […]
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More good news to add light to the world. Thank you to the monthly donors of One Hundred For Haiti. This past December we posted about our friends at Chicago Vegan Foods for helping to put a roof on a house. There was money leftover from their donation and we used it towards this entirely […]
Latest News, New Roofs
Thank you international supporter Benedikt Hain for building a new house in Bois de Lance!
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Mar
Amidst an overwhelming world these last few weeks in Ukraine…some good news from around the world. Thank you from One Hundred For Haiti to mixing engineer & music production coach Benedikt Hain from Germany for his donation which allowed this house to be built in the village of Bois de Lance for Monsieur Jostherne. Benedikt runs […]
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We asked a One Hundred For Haiti donor last week if they would like a post about their donation and they requested to remain anonymous but asked that we post instead about the monthly donors of smaller amounts who make big impact overall. Sweet! So, here is some positive energy and news, made possible […]
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Jan
Jan
Today is the anniversary of the 2010 earthquake, and this post puts something other than pain and suffering in perspective. We often hear about Haiti in a negative context, and far too rarely about how full Haiti is of vitality, development, and the desire for health and safety. Poverty-filled images attract sympathy but they don’t […]
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Starting the new year off with good news thanks to our friend Jeff Evans who sent a donation to One Hundred For Haiti that allowed us to rebuild this entire house. The house is owned by Monsieur Hilaire who lives at Baille, Haiti and previous to this donation, the roof was unusable. The walls […]
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Dec
A few months back, our friends at Chicago Vegan Foods wrote us and asked if they could fund repairs to a house in Haiti. Their donation allowed us to build this brand new roof on the house of Tijo, who lives in the village of Bois de Lance. Note the curled up edge to the […]
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Dec
One Hundred For Haiti is excited to announce the addition of Seattle Real Estate Agent Kevin Zelko to our growing team of devoted real estate professionals willing to help build houses in Haiti. For every house that Kevin helps a client sell or buy, he will fund the building of one house in the Ranquitte […]
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Dec
Dec
A few years ago, while in Ranquitte, we learned that a group called Peacework Medical were leaving Haiti, having initiated an important program around clean water with their Haitian friends over the previous few years. Their idea had been simple: in the midst of a brutal cholera epidemic, they found the best way to […]