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11 Mar 2010: The Campaign for Haiti's Tomorrow Surpasses Fundraising Goal!

30 Days   |   $70,000   |   One Mission

 

Last month, A Hole in the Roof Foundation announced its next project: rebuild the Caring and Sharing Mission and Orphanage in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.  The Campaign for Haiti's Tomorrow would 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, unstable walls and crumbling ceilings. A budget was set, a deadline was marked.

AND WE DID IT!


Together. In just 19 days, we raised over $82,000.  That's enough for real toilets  instead of holes in the ground, real showers instead of soapy water and cans. Walls can be rebuilt, ceilings will be whole. Sanitary kitchens, and a water reservoir safe from rain and sewage. It's not everything any child deserves. Especially these children. But it's a start.

Thank you for your generosity, your prayers and your good thoughts.

Please keep checking in at MitchAlbom.com to follow the progress of repairs.

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
 

 

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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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