Productive Trip!

We are finishing our75th unit this week!      A family’s tent in front and our units in back…

We had a great trip. Lots of good things were accomplished! Project Nourish is happy to be completing seventy five interim houses now, and will be continuing promptly on building more! The partnership has been going along quite well. The many recipient families are elated to be sleeping in a structure rather than the tents they’ve been in for over a year!! Joining me on this trip was Doug Smith and my son Jimmy. After completion of the 50^th unit we got the required paper work done and proceeded to pick up 25 more units and continued building without delay! We hope to have funds for this to happen again at least a couple of times before the program is scheduled to end in a few weeks. For $2000 we can get 25 families in these structures just as the rainy season begins. Some of the units are housing 6 & 7 people!

They are only 12’ x 12’ units but they are 7’ high and are much more spacious than the tents since there isn’t the sloping roof that a tent has. And the units include two full length shelves and a double bed frame to receive a mattress if the recipients have one.

Also during our stay we were able to get some rice up to the mountain village as well as some clothing and shoes. You can’t imagine how important new shoes are to our friends here. We just simply have to get more shoes to bring over! Lots and lots of shoes!! I’ll tell you the overall terrain in Haiti wreaks havoc on shoes and up here in the mountain it’s especially tough on them.

A shelf full of shoes!                                  What one family is leaving behind!

We are pressing forward and hope to get a whole lot more accomplished in the coming days and weeks! Project Nourish is constantly working to establish relationships to help with food products, housing, education, community help buildings, medical supplies, administration costs, etc. We are excitedly looking towards our next trip where we can continue to touch the lives of more families in this impoverished nation.  We are working primarily in Cabois right now but also several other villages in the Leogane region.

I hope this helps give you a better glimpse into our efforts in Haiti.