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 Wednesday, February 24.
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.
THANK YOU so much for our many supporters who organized and attended the Wine and Chocolate Tasting on Feb. 12, the Open Your Heart For Haiti concert on Feb. 13, and the Concierto Cantando Por Haiti on Feb. 19. All events were well attended, everyone had a great time, and significant money was raised for our relief and reconstruction efforts in Haiti. We are truly grateful and hope to see you at the upcoming events listed below
BUY YOUR BREAD AND HELP HAITI OUTREACH ON SUNDAY, MARCH 21
Great Harvest Bread Company at 17416 Minnetonka Blvd., Minnetonka, MN will be open on Sunday, March 21 from 8 am to 4 pm, and 100% of that day’s bread, cookies, cinnamon rolls, and other sweets sales will go to Haiti Outreach. Click here for details and an order form.
Medina Ball Room – Tommy Vee producing – Postponed – Date TBD
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.
