This spring Help One Now will be taking an amazing group of storytellers to Haiti. We will be visiting our projects in Drouin, Port Au Prince and Ferrier Village near the Dominican Republic border.
And listen, this isn’t your regular bloggers trip. This is special. Don’t believe us?
Follow along with us as we travel Palm Sunday weekend this year, from April 12-16.
Follow us as we tell the stories of the children rescued from trafficking, from poverty and from a life of neglect.
Follow us as we tell the stories of their caregivers, the day-to-day warriors who live in the trenches with Jesus and with these children.
Follow us, would you?
The Storytellers:
Sarah Bessey
Follow this trip in a couple short months, and check out the websites of these writers and storytellers. You won’t be disappointed.
This is great! So excited to see these women collaborating to share stories. I’ll be following along and praying…lots of praying!
Adrienne,
We’re very excited about this trip.
This is great! So excited to see these women collaborating to share stories. I’ll be following along and praying…lots of praying!
Adrienne,
We’re very excited about this trip.
Curious– as someone who spent most of my life overseas – how is this not “your regular blogging trip”. How is the money spent sending the bloggers any different than other organizations who do the same? How is helponenow better?
Hey Marilyn, thanks for your comment.
One way that this blogger trip may be different than others is that these bloggers are already deeply connected to the Help One Now story, in fact, a few of them are board members. Also, we won’t simply be pushing child sponsorships, but addressing deeper issues of community development, trafficking prevention, and keeping families together.
As for Help One Now, it’s not a question of being better…just different. There are all kinds of incredible organizations doing wonderful work. HON is just trying to do things differently in the space that they are in. And, unfortunately, that space is littered with NGOs and Mission Orgs that create as many problems as they solve, and waste a lot of resources along the way. HON focuses on empowering and resourcing local leaders who are already helping their own people — in five different countries and counting. We partner with existing infrastructure and we try to stay invisible. We want to see communities transformed from within…to see the needs of a people met with the assets of a people. We are, by no means, the only people out there doing this, but we’re definitely in the minority.
But this kind of work does require a lot of fundraising, and one of our funding tools is blogger/storytelling trips. This will be our second official blogger trip. Our first was an investment of about $10,000 which came back almost twenty fold, and we were able to build a first rate school in Port au Prince for 425 children. If we can even accomplish half of that through this trip, it will be a worthwhile investment.
I hope this helps to answer your questions…and we’d love to hear more about your life overseas!
Curious– as someone who spent most of my life overseas – how is this not “your regular blogging trip”. How is the money spent sending the bloggers any different than other organizations who do the same? How is helponenow better?
Hey Marilyn, thanks for your comment.
One way that this blogger trip may be different than others is that these bloggers are already deeply connected to the Help One Now story, in fact, a few of them are board members. Also, we won’t simply be pushing child sponsorships, but addressing deeper issues of community development, trafficking prevention, and keeping families together.
As for Help One Now, it’s not a question of being better…just different. There are all kinds of incredible organizations doing wonderful work. HON is just trying to do things differently in the space that they are in. And, unfortunately, that space is littered with NGOs and Mission Orgs that create as many problems as they solve, and waste a lot of resources along the way. HON focuses on empowering and resourcing local leaders who are already helping their own people — in five different countries and counting. We partner with existing infrastructure and we try to stay invisible. We want to see communities transformed from within…to see the needs of a people met with the assets of a people. We are, by no means, the only people out there doing this, but we’re definitely in the minority.
But this kind of work does require a lot of fundraising, and one of our funding tools is blogger/storytelling trips. This will be our second official blogger trip. Our first was an investment of about $10,000 which came back almost twenty fold, and we were able to build a first rate school in Port au Prince for 425 children. If we can even accomplish half of that through this trip, it will be a worthwhile investment.
I hope this helps to answer your questions…and we’d love to hear more about your life overseas!