Shop at Regla de Oro on Nov. 19 – Benefit Haiti Outreach!
November 12, 2011
Regla De Oro Gallery – Art and Fair Trade Gifts celebrates its one year anniversary in November. They will be highlighting their favorite fair trade art from Haiti.
On November 19, Regla De Oro Gallery has generously offered to host a benefit to fund community programs in Haiti. Twenty Percent of your purchases from 12pm – 4pm that day will benefit Haiti Outreach!
Spread the word. Start your holiday shopping on Saturday, November 19 before the big crowds and help bring clean water and pubic schools to the people of Haiti!
Check out their Facebook Page for this event. (Click here).
Regla De Oro Gallery – Art and Fair Trade Gifts
Located at:
3007 Lyndale Avenue S
Minneapolis, MN 55408
Phone: 612-886-1247
Holiday Hours – Through December 31:
Tues – Fri 12pm – 8pm
Saturday 11am – 8pm
Sunday 11am – 5pm
Email: regladeoro@mac.com
Web: www.regladeoro.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/regladeoro
Twitter: www.twitter.com/regladeoro
Regla De Oro (Spanish – Golden Rule): Do unto others as you would have them do unto you / Haz a los otros lo que deseas que ellos te hagan a ti
***Love, Appreciate & Advocate Art***
One Day, One Gift, One Clean Water Well…Together We Can Change Lives
November 6, 2011
A special opportunity to make an incredible difference is coming on Wednesday, November 16 during “Give to the Max Day” – a special day for non-profits based in Minnesota… and Haiti Outreach will be participating. On this day you can join with others and help Haiti Outreach achieve its goal of $10,000 for a new well that will provide clean water for a village of up to 500 people. Donations made on Nov. 16 will also enable Haiti Outreach to receive a matching grant of at least $3,000! A variety of other additional grants will be awarded in contests throughout the day.
Please pledge your donation here today. Then we will send you a reminder on November 16. Thank you!
GiveMN’s Give to the Max Day amplifies your giving impact in a number of ways:
- Matching Funds! We have $3,000 in matching funds already pledged for the first $3,000 donated on Nov. 16. So your donation will be doubled if you donate early!
- Win a Golden Ticket! $1,000 will be given to a donor’s charity randomly selected every hour (24 hours starting at Midnight November 16 until Midnight November 17). You could be that donor! Morning owl? Donate around 3-5am! Night owl? How about midnight on the 16th?
- Put us on the Leader Board! $15,000, $10,000 and $5,000 prize grants will be awarded to the top three nonprofit organizations (colleges and universities excluded) that receive the most dollars in 24 hours during Give to the Max Day.
- Setup your own fundraising campaign for Haiti Outreach and create support with your friends to raise $10,000 for one new community clean water well on Nov. 16, and we will mail you an official Haiti Outreach t-shirt and feature a picture of you and a story about your achievement in our December Monthly e-newsletter and on our web page! Here’s how you can setup a personal fundraising campaign for Haiti Outreach:
- Visit Haiti Outreach’s GiveMN webpage for Give to the Max Day at: http://givemn.razoo.com/story/Haiti-Outreach
- Click on the white “Fundraise” button in the right hand column.
- Fill out all the information
- Share with your friends – tell them what you are doing and that you will ask on Nov. 16 for them to give.
- Send us an email and tell us your goal. We will help support your efforts using our social media channels too!
If you’ve ever dreamt of impacting lives, please consider participating in Give to the Max Day November 16 and supporting Haiti Outreach. GiveMN is easy to use, and your gift to Haiti Outreach will make a huge in the lives of the people in need of clean water in Haiti.
Give to the Max Pledge
November 3, 2011
Did you know that in a nation of nearly 10 million people, cholera has sickened more than 450,000 people in Haiti? This is nearly 5 percent of the population! Did you also know that one of the leading causes of cholera is inadequate access to clean drinking water? What if you could make a difference in changing that?
You can! Here’s how:
On November 16, Give to the Max Day, Haiti Outreach is asking you to help us achieve our goal of $10,000 for a new community clean water well. Just one of these wells can help bring fresh, clean water to 400-500 people in Haiti- not to mention helping in the fight against cholera!
Haiti Outreach Management Model Recognized Nationally!
November 2, 2011
Ceremony in Pignon Begins National Certification Process
On October 11, 2011, the General Director of Direction National Eau Potable et Assenisman (DINEPA), Gerald Jean-Baptiste, arrived in Pignon to give official recognition to the water management committees that oversee the first 42 community wells that complied with the new government by-laws, rules and regulations that DINEPA created, based on a Haiti Outreach model.
Honors Bestowed
Present for the ceremony and signing process were 2 or 3 representatives from each community’s committee who came from the Pignon, San Raphael and La Viktwa areas, along with Director Jean-Baptiste and Haiti Outreach staff, including President Jeff Brown and Director of Special Projects Neil Van Dine. The wells managed by the committees recognized were all community wells that Haiti Outreach had drilled and community management committees that we trained!
“This is a very special day for Haiti Outreach, the Haitian government and all of the people of these communities,” said Brown. “The national government has just created this standardization program, certifying and officially recognizing that these wells are being managed according to their rules for sustainability and transparency. These wells are the first to be certified and we are very proud of that .”
Neil Van Dine added, “Haiti Outreach has pioneered this effort, developing and perfecting our community well management program and shared the results with the national government. They were impressed with what we have accomplished, and we worked together to finalize their new system that will now be implemented for the whole country. This is a major achievement and is a wonderful pay-off for the many years we have been working toward this goal.”
How It Got Started
DINEPA is a department of the Haitian ministry of public works. In 2010, DINEPA published the Haiti Outreach model as an inspirational guideline for creating and training the community water management committees and wrote a letter recommending that non-profit and for-profit organizations that drill wells use it. The new certification system, called Committee Pointe Eau (CPE) is for individual water points, such as a single well. It is based on 4 principles with which the committees must comply in order to be certified:
- Authority- through DINEPA
- Responsibility- a community based water committee
- Accountability- having a business plan that is followed
- Transparency- being in honest and open communication with the people in the community about what is happening
What’s Next?
As DINEPA moves to implement this new process, they will eventually train inspectors to replace the Haiti Outreach inspectors. This will strengthen the government and make these clean water projects more sustainable- moving us that much closer toward our vision of Haiti as a development country!
DINEPA is also working on a similar training and certification process for water systems in small and large towns. We are working with them on these projects, as well as continuing to develop the water systems in Pignon and San Raphael.
Community Water Management Committee Members Signing For Certification
General Director of DINEPA Gerald Jean-Baptiste, Haiti Outreach President Jeff Brown and Director of Special Projects Neil Van Dine (r to l)
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