One Hundred For Haiti

03/16/2022

More good news to add light to the world.

Thank you to the monthly donors of One Hundred For Haiti. This past December we posted about our friends at Chicago Vegan Foods for helping to put a roof on a house. There was money leftover from their donation and we used it towards this entirely new house which was built recently for Madame Evena who lives in a village near Haut Pont, Haiti.

The remainder of the money for this project came from our monthly donors who help keep the entire organization moving along. They are often anonymous, but essential. Because of them we were able to make this house and roof a reality.

Walls are being finished now as you can see in the photo but the whole house is new and the roof is solid for the family who lives here.

So thank you Chicago Vegan Foods and all the people who chip in each month to support projects like this!

❤️🙏

03/10/2022

Amidst an overwhelming world these last few weeks in Ukraine...some good news from around the world.

Thank you from One Hundred For Haiti to mixing engineer & music production coach Benedikt Hain - Producer/Mixer from Germany for his donation which allowed this house to be built in the village of Bois de Lance for Monsieur Jostherne.

Benedikt runs Outback Recordings which is an audio mixing studio (https://benedikthain.com) and offers coaching and courses on audio engineering through “The Self Recording Band” (theselfrecordingband.com). Check out those links if you need audio work done or if you want to learn how to do it yourself.

THANK YOU for your international support, Benedikt. More good news from Haiti is on the way soon.

01/13/2022

We asked a One Hundred For Haiti donor last week if they would like a post about their donation and they requested to remain anonymous but asked that we post instead about the monthly donors of smaller amounts who make big impact overall. Sweet!

SO, here is some positive energy and news, made possible by all those who donate $5 or $10 or $20 a month to One Hundred For Haiti....

We have FOURTEEN students currently enrolled full time in school in Ranquitte who otherwise would not have been able to go to school this year. They range from 1st grade to 11th grade, and all are really enjoying being able to be in school. Pending their performance this year, every one of them will be funded for school next year too. And beyond. Monthly donors made this possible, and then individual donors supported it. We are going to keep their photos and names off the web just for their privacy, but all those kids are doing great.

In terms of clean water flowing, and it is, check the One Hundred For Haiti website's latest post for news about the repairs to water tanks so that people in Ranquitte have access to clean water. All of this is possible through the monthly donors who allowed us the funds to respond to the need from Haiti when asked.

We are tired of groups reporting bad news from Haiti. We want to share the wins. And there's lots of wins. Our partners in Haiti wanted a baseline: water, housing, education, food via agriculture. So that's where we're working. The future depends on it.

More wins soon. Thank you monthly donors!

01/12/2022

Today is the anniversary of the 2010 earthquake, and this post puts something other than pain and suffering in perspective. We often hear about Haiti in a negative context, and far too rarely about how full Haiti is of vitality, development, and the desire for health and safety. Poverty-filled images attract sympathy but they don't help to give a more complete and accurate picture of what Haiti is really like. Enter these water safety photos, which show clean water flowing and being protected by local communities.

The Rural Water Project is the general collective name we give to an initiative started years ago in the Ranquitte region. Our partners there talked often about how water is life and how clean water and access to it, especially during times of cholera infection, would allow baseline standards to be build upon for the community like a foundation.

These were the baselines the Haitians spoke of:

• Providing clean water for communities for personal and agricultural use.
• Putting new roofs on houses and building entirely new houses themselves.
• Providing food for people by way of helping them grow it themselves and not relying on the government to deliver it.
• Offering opportunities in education for kids who couldn't otherwise afford to go to school.

And that is when our work started. We could have stood behind and for the ideas we had brought to the table, but that's not how we work. We reframed the mission and focus on One Hundred For Haiti around the Haitian desire to strengthen community from a baseline standard of water, housing, food, and education.

The metal covers you see here are each new, replacements for old or broken covers, on cisterns which have been built around the Ranquitte region to house naturally occurring water flow. Once the cistern fills with water (say, from under a rock or from a stream), the water can be treated with chemicals to kill any potential diseases and thus make it safe to drink.

Each cistern has a cover and lock, and a local person responsible for that cistern's protection. We have recently upgraded and repaired cisterns across the region like those you see here at:

Pinal (near the Bruis family)
Pinal (near the Flerius family)
Pinal (near the Predeus family)
and at Rose Grande

All of this is made possible through our monthly donors, who we name specifically here as a group because often our posts are about the BIG donor who pays for the attractive looking new roof or house to be built. But the fact is that the month to month donors make so much happen in Ranquitte and these tank repairs and the water flowing in the main image are a perfect example.

More good news to come soon!

01/01/2022

Starting the new year off with good news thanks to our friend Jeff Evans who sent a donation to One Hundred For Haiti that allowed us to rebuild this entire house.

The house is owned by Monsieur Hilaire who lives at Baille, Haiti and previous to this donation, the roof was unusable. The walls will be covered in dry earth to provide protection and insulation.

Jeff's donation was enough to also let us send two students to school for the year who otherwise wouldn't have a chance to go. It costs $120 to send a kid to school for the year inclusive of supplies, uniform, etc. So far we've been able to send twelve students to school for this year.

In conjunction with the in-country director of One Hundred For Haiti, we've decided that a stronger future for the region in which we work starts with fundamental basics: housing, education, clean water, and food independence. So that's where our focus has been and will continue to be.

THANK YOU JEFF!

12/25/2021

A few months back, our friends at Chicago Vegan Foods wrote us and asked if they could fund repairs to a house in Haiti. Their donation allowed us to build this brand new roof on the house of Tijo, who lives in the village of Bois de Lance.

Note the curled up edge to the roofing above the door which will work to protect the entry from the rain.

We've loved Dandies Marshmallows from Chicago Vegan Foods for over a decade and can't recommend them highly enough. If you love them, or if you haven't (yet) tried them, now you know when you buy them that your money is going to a company who cares about others.

There are baseline goals we have with our partners in Haiti for the community in Ranquitte: housing, food, water. That's as basic as it gets. And this is why we are working to build houses and roofs, help farmers plant crops, and fixing / building cisterns which will hold clean water.

From that baseline community can be stronger. And eventually, if all goes well, One Hundred For Haiti will no longer be needed. That's the long term plan. ❤

For more information on how you can help build a roof or house or take part in any of the projects above, or if you know of a socially conscious company who would partner with us, be in touch anytime!

12/18/2021

One Hundred For Haiti is excited to announce the addition of Seattle Real Estate Agent Kevin Zelko Seattle Realtor to our growing team of devoted real estate professionals willing to help build houses in Haiti.

For every house that Kevin helps a client sell or buy, he will fund the building of one house in the Ranquitte region of Haiti through our local partners there. You can find out more about the houses we build and why here:

https://www.onehundredforhaiti.org/what-we-do/raisetheroof/

This is an incredible way to expand the number of houses we can build in Haiti, provide baseline sustenance for more people, and from there continue strengthening community.

Kevin said, “The work that One Hundred For Haiti achieves in helping my fellow humans in very tough times is vital. They do this with such a low overhead compared to other non-profits because it’s a smart & small organization of dedicated individuals.”

Find out more about Kevin and his business at: https://kevinzelko.com/

I’m excited to learn what it is that brings you comfort, joy and the best fit. I will provide excellent individualized customer service and communication.

11/25/2021

Thankful today for Robert Van Kelly for donating funds for TWO new roofs in Haiti through One Hundred For Haiti.

The first, with the man standing in front of the house, is a brand new roof for Mr. Levis Philogene from the village of Ranquitte, Haiti.

The second, is the house of Madame Foblas. She lives in Bois de Lance, Haiti.

A baseline: housing / shelter and sustainable clean water and food, on Haitian terms. From there: community development projects on a more expansive scale.

Thank you Robert! More houses / roofs to be posted soon from other donors. Find out more at www.onehundredforhaiti.org

10/07/2021

Shoutout to the monthly donors, the people who send $5 and $10 and $25 a month to One Hundred For Haiti.

This week One Hundred For Haiti provided funding for seven kids to go to school for the year, all because of monthly donors. And all students who wouldn’t have been able to go to school otherwise. More on that soon.

As for this great new roof….we often post about the bigger dollar donors who fund an entire house or roof build with one donation. But the people who send monthly donations are so appreciated because those donations really add up.

This new roof is proof of that. It’s the house of Madame Blanc in Gard Hiram, safe from rain for the next decade thanks to monthly donors.

One donor at $25 a month covers the cost of a roof or house build in just a years’ time. It really does add up.

❤️🙏

09/01/2021

Everyone who donated to One Hundred For Haiti since the earthquake: here is more of what your donations have helped to fund...

Yesterday in a small community between Cavaillon and Les Cayes Haiti, our volunteers delivered and distributed tarps by motorcycle to people who had lost their homes in the earthquake. These tarps will protect people in the short term from rain and weather.

Deliveries of the supplies were made very late at night from Port au Prince in order to avoid gang interaction / activity along the main route from Port au Prince to Les Cayes.

Faces and licence plates have been blurred to protect identities.

THANK YOU for the ongoing support. Roof/house building continues in the north. More updates will be coming soon...

For more info see: http://www.onehundredforhaiti.org

08/27/2021

Recently, our friend Vickie Lanterman Orton donated funds to One Hundred For Haiti for a new roof in Haiti as a gift for her kids Jon Orton and Elizabeth X Orton. We just got a photo of the completed roof.

Changing the lives of a family in Haiti who have been living under leaking roofs or collapsing walls is easy. Write us anytime and we can tell you more.

This is the roof Vicki funded ❤️ The roof belongs to Madame Layins from Jengembre Haiti.