2012 is going to be a fantastic year for the St. Joseph Family of Haiti. The St. Joseph Home for Boys in Petionville will be ready for occupancy on/about June 2012 (see photos on the "stories" page of this website). With the construction project back on track at Wings of Hope in Fermathe, we are very excited to soon be able to serve our children at Wings of Hope with even better facilities than before.
Our Trinity House is expanding into new areas of community outreach services for the town of Jacmel and Trinity's surrounding neighborhood. Melchi Petit-Homme, the House Director at Trinity, is now the first fellow Rotarian of the St. Joseph Family in Haiti. Congratulations, Melchi.
The 2010 earthquake was disastrous for everyone in Haiti, but it allowed us a unique opportunity to recover, regroup and rebuild. It allowed us the chance to reunify and reconnect with our many generous and committed friends and supporters, both in Haiti and from every corner of the globe. There is power and grace in unity.The
recession has made a dramatic impact on our ability to raise funds and
finance the rebuilding of the Wings of Hope facility in Fermathe. Every tax deductible dollar you can contribute will make a tremendous difference in our ability to recover from the earthquake's destruction, and to rebuild our new Wings of Hope special-needs accessible facility. Special needs accessible living and therapeutic facilities are complex in design and expensive to build, especially in a country like Haiti - where good land, quality of materials, and integrity of construction are expensive but of fundamental importance. This allows us to insure the health and safety of the many children and young adults in our SJF Family.
Please
consider making a recurring donation for this important rebuilding project --- Wings of Hope is one of the only special-needs facilities in Haiti, and one of the
largest special-needs facilities in the entire Caribbean. Click
on the orange "Donate Now" button in the right hand column of this page.
The children of Wings thank you.
We
will soon have the many challenges and struggles of 2010 and 2011
behind us, and we will be stronger as a result. Besides giving us unity and resolve, our challenges have allowed us to strengthen and
enhance the many friendships we have with the THOUSANDS of friends who
continue to support the SJF, regardless of the many obstacles and hurdles that we face, each and every day.
For this, we are
thankful.
January, 2012
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