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  • New Church School – New Backpacks

    New Church School – New Backpacks

    September 21st, 2011, Jim, no comments

    Marmalade, Haiti – On October 3rd, the official first day of school in Haiti, 160 kids from pre-school to 6th grade will start the school year in a new school and with a brand new backpack given to them by kids at Bethany Church in Greenland, NH. Jan Dietrich, Kristen Kephart and Carole Robinson from [...]

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    Marmalade Church School Construction Almost Complete!

    August 26th, 2011, Jim, no comments

    Marmalade Church School Construction Almost Complete! Amazing progress is being made to complete our reconstruction of the Marmalade Church before the kids return to school in September. The whole local church turned out to help when the construction materials arrived on July 12th. One thousand cement blocks, two hundred bags of cement, a hundred twelve [...]

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    Celebrate our Birthday!

    July 11th, 2011, Jim, 1 comment

    Thanks to your unwavering support, we are celebrating our first year anniversary. You can’t imagine what we’ve accomplished together in our first year. From June 24, 2010 through June 30, 2011 Help for Haiti has received $68,774 in donations. Not bad for our first year, but we are just beginning! Lets look at how your [...]

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    Seacoast Area Volunteers to pack 100,000 Meals for Haitian Families

    May 2nd, 2011, Stacy, 3 comments

      May 2, 2011, Portsmouth, NH —Local businesses, community members, and church leaders are joining together to pack 100,000 meals on May 21st to be shipped in a container to Haitian children. This event, organized by Help for Haiti, a local non-profit, Bethany Church, and local business leaders, seeks the community’s help for two hour [...]

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    New President in Haiti and 100,000 Meals for Kids

    April 19th, 2011, Stacy, 1 comment

    April 17th 2011 Haiti Pins Hopes on Pop-Star President Haiti is the most interesting and eclectic place I have ever been. The title of this blog is the title of an article in the local paper announcing the results of the recent presidential elections in Haiti. The new president is Michael “Sweet Micky” Martelly a [...]

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  • 100,000 Meals for Haiti

    100,000 Meals for Haiti

    March 21st, 2011, Jim, 2 comments

    Join us Saturday, May 21st for our food packing event. Learn more about it here – http://www.helpforhaiti.com/foodpack/.

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    Some Hard Facts About Haiti

    January 11th, 2011, Jim, no comments

    Watch This Video from our October trip to Cap Haitien, Haiti

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  • Kids Entering Marmalade School

    A Look Forward & A Look Back!

    January 11th, 2011, Jim, 1 comment

    What is ahead for Haiti presses on my mind – 2010 was a disaster of epic proportions and yet life moves on. Lets take a look at where we are going in 2011. Here are four goals for 2011. We want to bring 200,000 packaged nutritious meals to kids in Haiti’s rural Christian schools. We [...]

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    Our October Trip to Cap Haitien, Haiti

    November 23rd, 2010, Jim, 3 comments

    Well, we are back from an eventful trip to Cap Haitien. Jack Bickel and I spent a week in Haiti and were busy from sun up to sun down each day. The purpose of this trip was four fold: First to check on the progress of a building effort of a church school in Marmalade [...]

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    Meet Mary Sunshine!

    October 18th, 2010, admin, 10 comments

    I woke up this morning with loads of details to get done before I leave for Haiti and no idea of what needed to go into my first blog. Lots of clothes to pack, emails to write, appointments to set up, travel plans to confirm and this “blog thing”. This is way out of my [...]

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