Haiti Outreach
Haiti Earthquake: A special Haiti Outreach Earthquake Relief and Reconstruction Fund is in place. If you wish to help, please DONATE using the featured ONLINE DONATION FUND on the right. Please designate your donation for the {EARTHQUAKE FUND}.
NEW: Please check the Events Page for updates and details – latest update Thursday, January 28.
See PHOTOS of the results of the earthquake that Neil Van Dine, Haiti Outreach Country Director, and Jim Kirzeder, Board member, took in Port-au-Prince since the earthquake struck.
FUNDRAISING EVENTS FOR HAITI OUTREACH
Please join our supporters and bring your friends, relatives and co-workers to these fun events being planned to support earthquake relief and reconstruction and the other work of Haiti Outreach.
Friday, February 12 – 7:30 pm – Wine and Chocolate Tasting – Minikahda Country Club – click here for details – please purchase your tickets in advance
Saturday, February 13 – 7:30 pm – Open Your Heart For Haiti -Click here for Open Your Heart Event Details- Old Arizona – Bands, wine, beer auctions, more – Donation of $25 = $100 Requested, Click here to Pre-Register for the Event
Friday, February 19 – 7:30 pm – Concierto Cantando Por Haiti -Click here for details- Latino Music Concert – Women’s Club of Minneapolis $20 – Click here to Pre-Register for the Event
Sunday, March 14 – Medina Ball Room – Tommy Vee producing – Singers including Bobby Vee, Johnny Holmes, others – $25 – details to follow
Saturday, April 10 – Haiti Outreach – Chicago – White Eagle Banquets, Niles, IL – $50 includes dinner, auctions, raffle, entertainment, more – details to follow
More Being Planned; If you would like to put on a benefit for Haiti earthquake relief or to support our community development work, please call us at 612-929-1122. Thank You!
Haiti Outreach, Inc. is a 501(c)3 non-profit, non-governmental organization (NGO) based in Minnesota in the U.S. and Pignon, Haiti, that works with communities in Haiti on water, education and other projects that the communities initiate, help build and sustain. We operate using a 4-point community development model for long term sustainability to ensure that the projects will last over a long period of time. In order for this to happen, a maintenance program based on an economic system – a community savings account to which all users contribute and from which future repairs can be paid – is created and used. Our work is based on a grassroots effort involving community responsibility, participation and ownership, unlike many well-intentioned “development” projects that lack this economic sustainability element and end up creating a dependency.
Haiti Outreach is based in the town of Pignon, Haiti, in the north-central part of the country on National Route 3, where we currently employ 24 people who do our community development work. We are a registered non-profit organization with the Haitian government and recognized as a private voluntary organization (PVO) with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
The Nation of Haiti
Haiti is a small nation located in the Caribbean Sea on the western third of the island of Hispaniola just 600 miles off the coast of Florida. This tiny nation was once known for its lush, natural beauty, but today is one of the poorest countries in the world. Each and every day the people face the crippling effects of poverty, undrinkable water, high infant mortality, poor medical care, illiteracy and high unemployment. However, given the opportunity, the Haitian people will help themselves. Haiti Outreach is committed to providing that opportunity.
