Where do I even begin?
Well, I figured I can't explain this trip in one post, so I decided that I'm going to upload one picture at a time and explain it and go off with stories and tid bit that are sparked by the picture I post!
But first off, I just want to say thank you again to everyone who helped to contribute to help me go on my trip. I will remember my time there forever, and I am forever impacted by the trip and by your generosity. I cannot express to you enough how grateful I am and how much your support meant to me, thank you.
Here is the welcome sign to the Mission of Hope that I stayed at for a one week. (You can visit their website here). I am bragging and telling everyone about them because they are seriously the best organization I have ever seen that is helping Haiti (yes, I did just put them above Red Cross and Unicef). They are working along side the Haitian people to rebuild their country from the inside out, not just throwing temporary bandaids on the current problem and not looking forward to the future. They have a 5, 10, 15, even 20 year plan. It is so amazing. They have a school, a day care, a orphanage, church, workshop that manufactures daily meals to be distributed, a shop for women with physical handicaps to make accessories (since they can't find jobs anywhere else),a clinic, in the process of building a hospital...at one campus. They have 2 other campuses that are newer but have many other facilities such as another school and a deaf community. There are over 200 haitian people on staff and only a handful of North Americans. Their primary goal is to send all the north american workers home and have Haiti build up Haiti! It is truly amazing, I have never seen something more inspiring in my life.
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