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clinic

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community health

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economic development

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Changes Over the Years

Linda2 12-09Celebrating our 10-year anniversary has given us a chance to reflect on the changes in Terre Blanche and the surrounding areas. It also gives us hope and excitement for the future. Join us for the changes ahead.

HEALTH

10 YEARS AGO, the only health care was provided by visiting medical teams four times a year.

TODAY, the Clinic of Hope is open year-round and staffed by Haitian medical professionals.

Haitian volunteers with the Community Health Program visit neighbors and host events to educate their communities and prevent health problems.

EDUCATION

10 YEARS AGO, the school was growing in size from the original 65 students in 1996.

TODAY, there are over 900 students, including secondary school.

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

10 YEARS AGO, there was no economic development aside from subsistence farming and days at the market.

TODAY, 55 women have graduated from the trade school while dozens of people participate in the micro-loan program.

Drip irrigation is being explored by farmers. Other community members are employed at the clinic and school.

CHURCH

The church has continued to grow, moving into a larger building and providing the community with hope.

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community health

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economic development

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Celebration Events

10 YearsOur partners in Haiti, Pastor Delamy and his wife Elvire, are visiting in the Northwest.

They will be here as Haiti Foundation of Hope celebrates 10 years working to meet the physical, emotional and spiritual needs of the people in the improverished and underserved rural communities of northern Haiti.

You’re invited to come and greet Pastor Delamy and Elvire and hear about the many changes in the past 10 years.

When & Where

MONDAY, SEPT. 21
6 to 8 p.m., program at 7 p.m. (light dinner)
Columbia Presbyterian Church
805 SE Columbia Ridge Drive
Vancouver, WA 98664

TUESDAY, SEPT. 22
6 to 8:30 p.m. (light refreshments)
Wix Insurance Agency
8037 SE Stark Street
Portland, OR 97215
Hosted by Carrie Kieselhorst & Janan Markee

WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 23
6:30 to 8:30 p.m. (dessert)
Mosaic Church
1832 NE Cesar E Chavez Blvd.
Portland, OR 97212

SUNDAY, SEPT. 27
9 & 10:30 a.m.
Sunday School and Worship
First Baptist Church of Brownsville
27910 Seven Mile Lane
Brownsville, OR 97327

 

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We Heart Crazy Friends

heart photo2Written by Katie Thom, HFH board member:

I ♥ my crazy friends.

I ♥ this photo, for so many reasons.

…the bright, contrasting colors.
…the strong, focused gaze of this beautiful Haitian woman.
…the fact that it makes me sit a little straighter and forget my own sore muscles.
…the knowledge that this water is being carried to help feed over 900 school kids each day.

My definition of crazy:

Crazy is the distance that she used to have to walk with that full bucket before we had a working well in the schoolyard.

Crazy is that the original 65 kids who were fed a meal has grown to over 900 kids in the past 10 years.

Crazy is the fact that this team of ‘lunch ladies’ still uses the original corner room of the school to cook for 15x more kids.

Find out more about how you can be one of Terre Blanche’s crazy friends!

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Vision Come to Life

Written by Beth Sethi, an HFH board member:

Green trees now cover part of school and clinic yard, where there was once only dirt and dust.

Trees now cover part of school and clinic yards, where there was once only dirt and dust.

Prior to the earthquake of 2010, Haiti was no stranger to natural disasters. In the decade leading up to that devastating event, a succession of hurricanes rocked this vulnerable island nation year after year. Following Hurricane Jeanne in 2004, I traveled to Haiti for my work at a Portland-based non-profit. During the week I spent traveling Haiti and visiting various hospitals and clinics, I made a brief 2-hour stop in the village of Terre Blanche. A medical team led by Dr. Joe and Linda Markee (founders of HFH), had recently worked for several weeks in this community. There I met, for the first time, Pastor Delamy Bazilme, now Haiti Foundation of Hope’s partner in Haiti.

Pastor Delamy, my colleague, and I stood in the courtyard of the local church and elementary school, two of the original ministries founded and led by Pastor Delamy. The courtyard was barren, with only dry rocks and a few shrubs. A broken down well pump stood in the middle. The elementary school was serving many students but was cramped with twice as many students per classroom as there were seats. As we looked up into the hills surrounding the school/church compound they were dry, with whatever crops there were flattened by the recent hurricane.

Delamy passionately shared the lofty vision God had given him to build on what he had started. An expanded elementary school. Trees to provide shade and food. A larger church. A secondary school. A working well. A clinic staffed by Haitians to provide medical care. A thriving community of people serving each other and the Lord. A hope for the future. We cried. We prayed together. We encouraged Pastor Delamy to follow his vision, knowing the Lord could make what seemed impossible possible. My colleague and I got in our vehicle and drove away, full of conflicted thoughts: inspired by such a faithful leader but questioning the viability of doing so much with so little.

As it turned out, God had planted the same vision in the hearts of Dr. Joe and Linda Markee. Soon after my time in Haiti Dr. Joe and Linda founded Haiti Foundation of Hope, with the sole purpose to support and encourage Pastor Delamy in his vision. Last year I returned, for the first time in a decade, to Terre Blanche. In that same courtyard I now stood in awe of the expansive trees providing shade and play space for children. From a working well flows clean water. Sitting on a concrete step outside the lunchroom are tippy-taps, large buckets of water children use to wash their hands before they eat, dramatically reducing childhood diarrhea. There is a larger elementary school and a two-story high school – the only high school for many miles. Behind the elementary school stands the clinic, serving thousands of patients yearly and staffed year-round by Haitian providers. What was the small church ten years ago is now the kindergarten and a much larger church has been built a short walk away.

Staff from of the Clinic of Hope look at a newborn during a meeting for mothers at Mme. Mishu's home.

Staff from of the Clinic of Hope look at a newborn during a meeting for mothers at Mme. Mishu’s home.

Walking a short dirt path beyond the church to Mme. Mishu’s home, a local mothers’ group meets twice per week to support one another in raising healthy children, part of the community health program. Behind the clinic I visited the test garden, where a low-tech irrigation drip system has been introduced to local farmers to address irrigation issues. Farmers of those fields in the hills buy seeds with loans from a micro-loan program. And that thriving, caring community of people serving the Lord and each other that Delamy had dreamed of.

The road surrounding the school/clinic compound had just been paved with rocks at the initiative of a local student leadership group – funded and implemented fully by the students. The students’ work is proof that the vision God gave Delamy, the Markees, and all of us involved with Haiti Foundation of Hope is shared by the next generation of local leaders. It was an honor to pray with Pastor Delamy ten years ago and it was an honor to return a decade later and marvel at what God has done. Happy anniversary Haiti Foundation of Hope!

“Now to Him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work within us” Ephesians 3:20

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clinic

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community health

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economic development

We provide adult education, resources and local employment to support self-sufficiency.

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Team Report

Read the news from our June 2015 team to Haiti:

Haiti June 2015 Team Report

Women in Terre Blanche have been making jewelry and other crafts to sell to team members.

Women in Terre Blanche have been making jewelry and other crafts to sell to team members. We are excited every time we see economic development.

 

 

 

education

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clinic

We support a permanent medical clinic, collaborate on a clean water project,…

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community health

We empower the communities we support to increase their education, health, and…

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economic development

We provide adult education, resources and local employment to support self-sufficiency.

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teams

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Celebrations

10-year celebration in Terre Blanche with American and Haitian team volunteers.

One team member commented that our time in Terre Blanche was full of celebrations.

We celebrated graduations.

We celebrated worship with our Haitian sisters and brothers.

We celebrated International Women’s Day.

We celebrated a team member’s 76th birthday.

And we celebrated Haiti Foundation of Hope’s 10 years – Selebrayson 10 ane. We took the party to Terre Blanche with six boxes of funfetti cake and frosting. I’m not sure of the exact number of guests but all 120 party plates were gone. What a joyful time and many memories made.

Written by Ann Petersen, March 2015 team member and HFH board member.


education

We fund primary school education, supplement staff salaries, subsidize secondary education, and…

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clinic

We support a permanent medical clinic, collaborate on a clean water project,…

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community health

We empower the communities we support to increase their education, health, and…

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economic development

We provide adult education, resources and local employment to support self-sufficiency.

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teams

Throughout the year we send medical teams to rural Northern Haiti to…

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10 Year Celebration

Looking back at our work, friends and fun

Cake 10yrWe had a party last week in Terre Blanche to celebrate 10 years of working together as Haiti Foundation of Hope.

After a day of seeing patients, we took down the exam tables and set up a cake table.

We – Haitians who have faithfully been part of our teams year after year and American volunteers – watched this video. And then we watched it again. And again.

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