by Help One Now Team | Feb 20, 2013 | Garage Sale for Orphans, Haiti, Legacy Project
Meet Naiderson. Like many ten-year-old Haitian boys, he loves playing soccer with his friends. And, like too many Haitian children, his parents were unable to take care of him and he was abandoned at an orphanage. Now, meet Pastor Gaetan — the man with the...
by Help One Now Team | Dec 31, 2012 | Haiti, Legacy Project
When I think about the Legacy Project of Help One Now, I imagine the bricks laid, the mortar spread, the walls slowly inching higher and wider. I think about the backs bent and the hands scraped, the sweat dripped and the knees cracked. I envision the desks arranged...
by Help One Now Team | Dec 20, 2012 | Fundraiser, Haiti, Legacy Project, Taking Action
Pastor Gaétan Alcégaire, the director of Yahve Shamma Children’s Home in Pétionville, took in 14 orphans before the earthquake in Haiti. He and his wife knew it was the right thing to do. After 2010’s devastating earthquake took the lives of so many, including...
by Help One Now Team | Dec 6, 2012 | Fundraiser, Haiti, Legacy Project, Taking Action
In case you have not heard, we launched an audacious project in Haiti, The Legacy Project. We are going to build a REAL school for 30 orphans and over 120 vulnerable children. For the past two years, these kids have attended school under a tent after 2010’s massive...
by Help One Now Team | Nov 6, 2012 | Fundraiser, Haiti, Restore
It is finally here. We’ve talked about it, tweeted about it, teased it, recruited some amazing friends and a few of the coolest bloggers to help us out, and now—it is time. Help One Now is excited (and nervous. and scared. and hopeful.) to release the details of...
by Help One Now Team | Oct 8, 2012 | Haiti
In November 2010, I was in Drouin, Haiti with one of our local leaders, Jean Alix. Drouin is rural, hot, muggy and desolate. It is a quiet place filled with rice paddies, which are the community’s main source of income, and it was here that cholera outbreak...