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The work done with Hope for Haiti (HFH) was exhaustive, spanning over six months and multiple trips to Aux Cayes, the capital of the southern region of . Really, you could say the work started 8 years ago, when I interned with them during graduate school! HFH has kept their mission simple: “Joyful children; healthy families; thriving communities; and the resources to make it so.” What I love about them, and what keeps me coming back to work with them in different ways, is their focus: just southern Haiti, in one department (Cayes). This geographic focus not only helps them deliver strong programs (hard to do when you’re trying to cover more ground), it allows them to develop deeper relationships with the people they work with; and it makes actually monitoring and evaluating their work that much easier, which matters to donors.

In honor of the 10-year anniversary of the devastating Haitian earthquake, HFH is raising $10 million dollars to benefit over 300,000 Haitians. Learn more on their website. As always, their work is humbling in its enormous impact, and we’re proud to help them tell stories about the amazing work they do.

This first video we’re showcasing originally started as an “about education” piece, but we wanted to tell a more interesting story. We met Joelie and her younger sister in St. Laurent. They had moved to the south following the earthquake and the destruction of nearly everything. Now they’re getting ready to graduate, full of hope, with a solid education that can take them just about anywhere they want to go!

Gotta use what ya got.