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Nov 9, 20232 min read
Empowering Education: A Quantum Leap for Our Haitian Refugee Camp School
Introduction: In a monumental stride towards transforming education in our Haitian Refugee camp school, we've recently implemented...
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Chet
Feb 15, 20222 min read
Advancing our Curriculum
A recent boon to our program is the introduction of new material which instructs principled living. In the material we have been blessed...
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Chet
Feb 15, 20221 min read
More than Nourishment
Our refugee kids get to eat everyday and that prospect is good. The meal they receive is not just a space filler but it’s a hot cooked...
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Chet
Feb 15, 20221 min read
Success in entrepreneurship
With an eye toward developing families so they can support themselves, we promote and facilitate small business as appropriate. A recent...
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Chet
Feb 15, 20221 min read
10 year old Miguelito writes his name for the first time
Miguelito has been attending the local Dominican school for two years. Due to his inability to speak Spanish, some of the fundamentals...
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Chet
Nov 18, 20201 min read
"Discover the Beauty of One-of-a-Kind Larimar Jewelry - Shop Now!"
Stone: Larimar (can only be found on the island of Haiti and the Dominican) Also called “Stefilia’s Stone” It is a rare blue variety of...
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Chet
Oct 12, 20201 min read
Banking update
Our community banking initiative is thriving!!! It’s so awesome. A couple things to report back on. Simeon says that he has seen people...
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Chet
Oct 12, 20201 min read
A bath whether we needed it or not!
It’s been 3 days and Lance was getting a little ripe so I insisted that it was time to visit the all natural bath house. Though the water...
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Chet
Oct 12, 20202 min read
a vision of Mercy, Understanding
We don't always understand why things are hard in life but fortunately, yesterday we were brought to understand why our trip to the top...
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Chet
Oct 12, 20202 min read
a less favorable section of the route
We are finally out of the jungle and oh man was it a trek. It ended up being a lot longer than we expected. We were told it would be...
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Chet
Oct 12, 20202 min read
Path Laid out by Angels from Heaven
I need to give a shout out to Juan Sevoya and Ishmael...Ishmael got us back on track when we were heading the wrong way and Sevoya got us...
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Chet
Oct 12, 20203 min read
Always Ready for the Sun to Rise
We spent the night there in our hammocks (crashed at dark/7pm). It dumped rain which I loved but I got the sense that it did this every...
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Chet
Oct 12, 20202 min read
Toil of the Trail lessened by light
We are back on our own. Juan and Viejo’s parting words were, “You won’t get lost from here. Just stay on this trail. You’ll know you’re...
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Chet
Oct 12, 20203 min read
Divine Timing
With every trip there are details that we just don’t have time to share. I’m sharing this detail now because it has relevance to...
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Chet
Oct 12, 20204 min read
Coming out of the woods
The last 10 miles had some ups and downs but was completely on a mountain road so though the ups were exhausting it was not technical at...
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Chet
Oct 12, 20201 min read
Building Local Banks
Soaking up Simeon’s report on community togetherness brought me great joy today. He summarized, “We are showing people how to live well...
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Chet
Oct 12, 20201 min read
Back and Bent on Finding the Track
COVID-19 has kept us away from personally being with the communities that we’ve been working with in our efforts fighting against child...
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Chet
Oct 12, 20201 min read
The Change is beginning to flow
It’s not easy to abolish child trafficking. In this instance the parents need a healthy way to support their families. God provided the...
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Lance Mergens
Jan 11, 20201 min read
The perfect ending to one tough day:
hike to the waterfall to take a shower, then continue up the mountain to where the spring flows (literally the river flows) out of the...
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