NEWS 
The Campaign for Haiti's Tomorrow Meets 60% of its Goal in Two Weeks
As of Wednesday, February 24, A Hole in the Roof Foundation reached 60% of it's goal to raise $70,000 to fund essential repairs at the Caring and Sharing Mission and Orphanage in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Over 400 gifts totaling approximately $42,000 were raised through online, phoned-in, and mailed-in contributions!
The Mission has worked in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti since 1983. The Mission provides on-site schooling for children in grades K-5, tuition for private schools for children in grades 6-12, two meals a day, a safe home, and a place for Christian worship. A Hole in the Roof Foundation's Espere (to hope): The Campaign for Haiti's Tomorrow is working to raise the money needed to make essential repairs that will address the fundamental needs of the children at the orphanage: bathrooms, kitchens, showers, dorms, water reservoir, and unstable roofs.
WHAT WE'LL FIX 
Boys and Girls Bathrooms
Retaining Wall
The exterior wall of the mission grounds was poorly built and further warped by the earthquake. It is being supported and prevented from collapse by feeble wooden posts.
School
The building needs new support beams (the ones now are made of weak concrete and stone) before the structure can be properly rebuilt and turned into a learning center.
Showers
Kitchen/Dining Room
The Boys and Girls Dormitories:
Repair needed within the rooms, the dangerous and unguarded steps leading to the rooms, and the crumbling roof/ceilings above the rooms
Water Reservoir
The goal here is to rebuild the platform area and make the door air tight in order to stop ground water and other waste from seeping in to their clean water supply
HELP US PATCH A ROOF
and MORE!
Call 1 (313) 993-4700, ext 4718 or 4710
or send a contribution to
A Hole in The Roof Foundation
c/o Detroit Rescue Mission Ministries
150 Stimson St.
Detroit, MI 48201
Donate Online
DISCOVER MORE 
- Watch this moving video of images from Haiti
- Follow the updates on Facebook and Twitter
- Read the three part series in the Detroit Free Press:
Part 1: Children in Haiti cling to way of life at mission
Part 2: Amid Devastation in Haiti, Gratitude Fills Their Hearts
Part 3: Heartache Over Haiti Lingers
READ THE INTERVIEW WITH TONIC.COM 
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MESSAGE FROM MITCH 
I will never forget what I saw in Haiti. People living in the streets, Children barefoot, eating from the ground. Streets of rubble. Tents pitched atop crumbled buildings.
I can also never forget the hope in the faces of the kids at the mission/orphanage where we stayed. The kids who grabbed our hands the minute we arrived, who said thank you for a single cookie, and who sang and prayed as if hope was untouched by the devastating earthquake.
Those are the kids I am bound and determined to help. Our A Hole in the Roof Foundation was created for places of faith that help the homeless, and Lord knows, almost everyone is homeless in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti. Right now the 70 kids are using holes in the ground for toilets and cans filled with soapy water for shower. They have no walls for privacy because they fell down during the earthquake. Their dorms are unstable and the floors cracked from the devastation.
We would like to fix that. Such a job in the U.S. might cost far more. But we can get the work done, based on estimates, for $70,000. Everything. New showers – which they have never had – real toilets, walls, tile floors, bedrooms that aren’t cracked. Nothing fancy. But the minimum, I think, a kid is entitled to in life.
Please help.
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HAITI RELIEF EFFORT 
For the next few weeks, The Somerset Collection will donate 10% of ALL PURCHASES up to $150,000 to the A Hole in the Roof Foundation's Campaign for Haiti's Tomorrow.
All you have to do is take your purchase receipts- whether it’s an ice cream cone from our scrumptious food court, or a larger item from our impressive line-up of anchor stores- to the Concierge Desk located in the North end of the Somerset Collection near Macy’s and have them tabulate your purchase.
It’s easy to do and you’re doing so much for so many!