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September 9, 2025
Hello from Haiti!
Street Trash Cleanup
With so much bad news coming from Haiti, we wanted to take a moment to highlight some good news. There really is no formalized trash collection in any of Haiti, so trash just tends to find its way to drainage canals and the streets as shown in the photo. It rots, festers, and promotes disease. We're pleased that the Cap-Haitien municipal administration has embarked on a street cleanup campaign. Significant funding for the project has been secured from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) for the project.
The city is also engaging other organizations, businesses, communities, and individuals to work together to make Cap-Haitien more beautiful and healthy. In fact, they've announced a competition called "katye lakay'm pi pwòp" which means "my neighborhood is the cleanest!" This project illustrates the relative calm in the north of the country. With the gang activity further south, something like this would be unimaginable. We can't wait to see Cap-Haitien beautified!
Annual Fundraiser
We're holding our sixth annual fundraiser and sporting clay tournament again on October 24 at Garland Mountain Sporting Clays. It's a friendly competition among teams, and we also hold a raffle and auction in conjunction with it. Perhaps you would like to put together a team of 4 and join the fun! We also have opportunities for businesses to sponsor the event at various levels to help us cover our cost. The more sponsors who join in, the more the charity benefits! We would also love to receive donations of interesting items with a sporting theme that we could put into our raffle or auction. For more information, just click here: https://haiticheri.redpodium.com/garland2025. You can also email or call us at the number at the bottom of this email. We would love to talk with you!
Clinic Update
Lastly, we would like to give you an update on the status of the clinic. If you've read our previous newsletters, you know that without warning a few months ago, the city widened the canal behind the clinic building and in so doing knocked off the back wall, destroying 6 rooms in the process. That seems inconceivable in the U.S., but that's the way things go in Haiti. We've been reeling since, but now within a few days we will start repairs so the clinic can reopen. We had to wait this long to be sure the city was not going to inflict further damage. We need to further secure the wall and repair electrical and plumbing. All of that was just left dangling when the concrete was knocked off. As you might suspect, this is not a budgeted expense, but we know God will provide so we can get back to serving the health and spiritual needs of the community.
Thank you for reading this far in our long newsletter. We appreciate you!
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