Wednesday, July 6, 2011
View new video of HHHO children!
Video made by HHHO co-founder Connie Marthaler from pictures taken June 2011. http://animoto.com/play/Ur151Qk01rDYCYCFE5bvnQ?utm_content=main_link
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
IMPORTANT NEWS! SPONSOR A CHILD KICK-OFF!
HHHO is now accepting sponsors for the displaced children in our care. Most of them have been orphaned in the earthquake. For $35 a month, you can help provide housing, medical care, food and clothing, schooling, and spiritual discipleship for these beautiful children.
When you sponsor a child, you will receive a portfolio of your child, including a photo, biography information and correspondence guidelines. HHHO will make every effort to have your child communicate to you through letters, drawings, photos, and school progress reports. You are invited to write to your child and send pictures of yourself.
To see the children and read their stories, click here. To read more about our sponsorship program, click here.
When you sponsor a child, you will receive a portfolio of your child, including a photo, biography information and correspondence guidelines. HHHO will make every effort to have your child communicate to you through letters, drawings, photos, and school progress reports. You are invited to write to your child and send pictures of yourself.
To see the children and read their stories, click here. To read more about our sponsorship program, click here.
Thursday, February 10, 2011
The love of my life...
This was a blog posting that I had written on January 12th 2011 that I thought I would share with you all. God continues to bless Haiti and He's been doing it through all the prayers and financial support of you. So thank you from the bottom of my heart and HHHO.
As I look back on the year of 2010, I’m frequently reminded of the mass destruction, the loss, despair and pain of the Haiti 7.0 earthquake. I was sitting in my first grad school class and bored out of my mind during syllabus reading that I took my blackberry and started checking facebook statuses and the news updates. All of a sudden, majority of them read “praying for Haiti” or “how sad what just happened in Haiti.”
It was at that moment where my stomach felt a deep stomach churn. I thought I was getting sick. I don’t know what that was for but for some reason I became obsessed with Haiti. It was laid so heavy on my heart that I began to feel called to do something. A friend of mine reached out weeks later and we decided we were going to go to Haiti and help take care of some children who had lost everything in the quake. If it weren’t for my friend Michael and Haitian Helping Haitian organization, I would never have met the loves of my life or experienced a place where I felt at home.
After only 5 weeks of preparation, I found myself on a plane from Chicago to Port Au Prince. We arrived in PAP and were bombarded with people, smells, concrete dust etc. We drove along the road and the left side was covered in tent cities and the right covered in more tent cities. It truly was disaster, chaos, devastation, pain all in front of my eyes. You were smacked by this new world from the moment we walked out of the airport. It was this world that I couldn’t have imagined in spite of all the news footage I’d. It’s a world that to me laughs at attempts at mental preparation. There is no preparation to see what I’ve seen: mile after mile of hundreds and thousands of people living practically on top of each other; children sitting amongst piles of garage topped off by grazing goats and pigs and dogs; sewage-filled drainage ditches sandwiched between the dirt streets and the tent cities; an entire city filled with the smell of things that should not be smelled by any living thing. This is a world that to me is an affront to the God who died so that we could live, and the Jesus who asks us ‘to love as I have loved.’ This is a world that forces me to ask not “Where is Christ?” but instead “Where are we who follow him?”
Haiti needs our help. I’ve been down there 3 times for a total of 37 days and I have seen the worse of the worse. I have spent time with 20+ orphans who lost everything but yet give the greatest smiles and laugh the loudest. These children have changed my life. Haiti has changed my life.
For me, today is a day filled with pain. My heart literally hurts for these people, for my new family. I ask you today, to be aware of a place so close to us but yet so foreign to many. It’s a place full of love but a place full of pain. It’s a place where God is so big and powerful, but seems so far away. It’s a place where life is so precious, but is haunted by loss.
I have fallen in love with this place. Take time today to fall in love with Haiti too. There are pictures everywhere, there are news stories all day…fall in love too.
Mwen renmen Ayiti
-Marie Leafblad
Board Member of HHHO
As I look back on the year of 2010, I’m frequently reminded of the mass destruction, the loss, despair and pain of the Haiti 7.0 earthquake. I was sitting in my first grad school class and bored out of my mind during syllabus reading that I took my blackberry and started checking facebook statuses and the news updates. All of a sudden, majority of them read “praying for Haiti” or “how sad what just happened in Haiti.”
It was at that moment where my stomach felt a deep stomach churn. I thought I was getting sick. I don’t know what that was for but for some reason I became obsessed with Haiti. It was laid so heavy on my heart that I began to feel called to do something. A friend of mine reached out weeks later and we decided we were going to go to Haiti and help take care of some children who had lost everything in the quake. If it weren’t for my friend Michael and Haitian Helping Haitian organization, I would never have met the loves of my life or experienced a place where I felt at home.
After only 5 weeks of preparation, I found myself on a plane from Chicago to Port Au Prince. We arrived in PAP and were bombarded with people, smells, concrete dust etc. We drove along the road and the left side was covered in tent cities and the right covered in more tent cities. It truly was disaster, chaos, devastation, pain all in front of my eyes. You were smacked by this new world from the moment we walked out of the airport. It was this world that I couldn’t have imagined in spite of all the news footage I’d. It’s a world that to me laughs at attempts at mental preparation. There is no preparation to see what I’ve seen: mile after mile of hundreds and thousands of people living practically on top of each other; children sitting amongst piles of garage topped off by grazing goats and pigs and dogs; sewage-filled drainage ditches sandwiched between the dirt streets and the tent cities; an entire city filled with the smell of things that should not be smelled by any living thing. This is a world that to me is an affront to the God who died so that we could live, and the Jesus who asks us ‘to love as I have loved.’ This is a world that forces me to ask not “Where is Christ?” but instead “Where are we who follow him?”
Haiti needs our help. I’ve been down there 3 times for a total of 37 days and I have seen the worse of the worse. I have spent time with 20+ orphans who lost everything but yet give the greatest smiles and laugh the loudest. These children have changed my life. Haiti has changed my life.
For me, today is a day filled with pain. My heart literally hurts for these people, for my new family. I ask you today, to be aware of a place so close to us but yet so foreign to many. It’s a place full of love but a place full of pain. It’s a place where God is so big and powerful, but seems so far away. It’s a place where life is so precious, but is haunted by loss.
I have fallen in love with this place. Take time today to fall in love with Haiti too. There are pictures everywhere, there are news stories all day…fall in love too.
Mwen renmen Ayiti
-Marie Leafblad
Board Member of HHHO
Thursday, December 9, 2010
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Housing project complete! Haitian families move into their new homes.
The housing project has been completed. Our mission team was able to help the families move in and get settled. HHHO provided housewarming "buckets" to each family. The buckets contained curtains, cooking pots, and other household items. The families had a celebration after they were all settled in.
Monday, October 11, 2010
LCMC Conference a Huge Success!
It was a great honor for HHHO to be invited to attend the LCMC Conference the first weekend in October. The conference was held in Minneapolis. Connie Marthaler, HHHO Founder, spoke at a breakout session and was one of the keynote speakers. Thank you LCMC for all the support you have given HHHO. We look forward to working with you in the future!
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