UPDATE APRIL 11, 2019 - We are in great need of helpers to pack the shipping container at the Bible Church the morning of Good Friday, April 19. Please email handtohandforhaiti@gmail.com if you can help.
Certificates for community service will be available upon request.
Time: 8:30-1:30 p.m. , possibly later.
Location: the Bible Church, 240 Dwight St., Waterbury, off Chase Ave. We will provide snacks and pizza.
If you ask our missionaries and community leaders, the factors that could turn Haiti around are faith, health care, education and jobs. Jobs and entrepreneurship can come with job training. Hand to Hand for Haiti has been collecting equipment for a new vocational school being founded by a Haitian organization. There are many tools ready to go. We are still collecting supplies and equipment. Our most pressing need will be the money to ship it. A shipping container will cost over $5000 to send, and we also need to meet our financial commitment to the summer mission events.
Second most urgent is the need for people to load the 40-foot shipping container. We have two hours to load it, and we will pay $75 per hour over that, so our goal is 4 hours. Please help if you can! See above for details. Please contact us if you plan to help.
The third most pressing need is for 25 new computers. This is an instance where up-to-date equipment is important.