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    • How you can get involved
  • Our Mission
    • Our Rules
  • Water
    • Water Filters
  • Food
    • Fish Farms
    • Gleaners
  • Medical
  • Education
    • Success stories
  • Used Sails
  • Photos
    • Boats Helping Out
    • Ile a Vache Marine Park
    • KaKoch Village
    • Sister Floras Orphanage
    • 2010 Earthquake
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Haiti needs your help
Friends are available to work along with you

CASH DONATION ​- press here
all donations receive a Canadian Government tax receipt if requested

YES WE NEED DONATIONS BUT WE ALSO NEED MUCH MORE

Work in Haiti and while in Haiti
controlling emergency medical costs
Building and maintaining fish ponds
Building and maintaining water cisterns
fixing up the guest house for visiting workers
sending us photos and stories on how things are going
developing ILE A VACHE MARINE PARK
Teaching Haitians      how to use tools
                                     how to treat water
                                     English and French
                                     how to repair boats and work with epoxy
                                     how to fix outboard motors

Work in Canada and the USA
Fundraising events                silent auctions
                                                 dinners and talks                                                                        
Help us find corporate sponsors
selling Haitian Art to raise funds - finding dealers across Canada
Delivering goods to boats in Virginia and Florida
a customs broker to work with for getting goods to Haiti
Collecting       old sails, rigging and other boat parts
                         medical supplies, toothbrushes, soap
                         shoes, clothing, hats
                         school supplies, French books, English French Dictionaries
                         laptops for use in Haiti at the cyber cafe
                         cameras for use by Haitian staff to keep in touch with us
                         Gleaners products for delivery to the vessels
                         sewing machines and sewing supplies
                         tools - hand and electrical

Working on developing the charity
updating the website
helping with Facebook and other social media
making a new book
creating Power Point presentations
working on our video and photo files
printing off photos - blowing them up to sell to raise funds
                     
Sail to Haiti on our vessels
we are always looking for good crew who want to help out in Haiti
we need people who can sail open ocean and work in Haiti
                         
What is needed in Haiti - contact us under donations

What visiting yachts and people can bring as gifts
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          For fishermen
                good heavy fishing line and large ss hooks, cast nets for work at the fish ponds

                used sails and rope, small pulleys, shackles - for 15 - 20 foot sloops
                life jackets and PFDs
                hand held vhf radios


          For the Villagers in General
             hand tools for wood working, digging in the fish ponds, installing water cisterns
             solar panels, wire, inverters, 12volt lights, solar lights
             t-shirts, ball caps, shoes, shorts
             water treatment pills, clean buckets, jugs
             school supplies, French English dictionaries
             cameras so they can email photos to us so we can publish them
             sheets, pillow cases, pillows, towels
             used laptops for the small cyber cafe
             used outboards 10hp or 15hp for the water ambulance
             seeds to grow food, fertilizer

          For Hospitals and Clinics
                medical supplies for young children - give to the Clinic
                medical supplies for the hospital - our team will deliver them
                small home first aid kits
                bandages of all sizes and types
                ointments and anti biotic creams
                anti-bacteria soaps and hand sanitizers
                children's medicines and cough syrup
                aspirin, Ibufrfen and Acetaminophen - new and unopened
                water purification tablets
                single bed liners and sheets

Note:  Be sure to work with our guides, Wagner and Samuel, when offloading and distributing any gifts
          You can create a riot handing out aid on the beach


What is needed at Sister Floras Orphanage
Soya Milk Powder or UHT packs for lactose intolerant people - not available in Haiti
baby and infant food, formula
Diapers - small adult size - disposable - not available in Haiti
clothes and shoes
Paint - mid quality - white preferred
fitted sheets for single beds - any colour
towels, face cloths, blankets
Good quality mops, buckets
toilet paper
paper towels
toys and art supplies, Rubix cubes, large sized legos, simple wooden puzzles


                    



                     
                                     
                                       


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GIVING A HAND UP AND NOT A HAND OUT