Welcome to the Help Brings Hope For Haiti website! We hope that you find the site an easy and enjoyable way to learn more about what we are doing in Haiti and perhaps how you might help us make a difference in this impoverished island.
Since its inception in 2003, those of us at HBHH have worked hard to focus our efforts on areas that will not only help the people of Haiti today but also tomorrow and the days into the future. It is important that all aid organizations emphasize the need to give a hand up, not just a hand out, to the people they serve. Self-reliance can be the greatest possible gift we can bring to the people of Haiti.
In addition, since the beginning of our organization, we have been guided by those members of our organization who are from Haiti so that our priorities and efforts are truly in alignment with the most pressing needs.
As you will learn from the site, those needs are diverse - so it is very possible that some, if not all, of our activities are not only addressing critical necessities but are also very close to your own life experiences and goals.
Breaking News!
USF sends team of Doctors to a small village in Northeast Haiti with the help of HBHH. HBHH helped to organize the team's first medical mission by arranging all travel and accommodation, interpretors for the USF team, as well as sending HBHH's local Doctor to help. The 2nd and 3rd picture show HBHH's Haitian doctor, Dr. Djenane Pierre, who helped the team understand the differences between Haiti and US medical treatments. Click on link to see article: http://hscweb3.hsc.usf.edu/health/now/?p=13765
HBHH moves into its first office space, donated by Christ The King Catholic Church. The office is now located at St. Michael Legal Center, 3816 W. Morrison Avenue, Tampa, FL 33629. Furniture for our two offices was donated by Decorator's Office Furniture of Tampa Bay. We are grateful for their support!
6/4/10 May Medical Team in USF Health News. USF Health News featured an article on HBHH's May medical mission trip to Miragoane, Haiti. The team included Tampa doctors Mitch Hoffman and Kathleen Kilbride, an nurse Karen Carraher and anesthesiologist Lilia Pereiras.
5/14/10 Successful surgery for Haitian child. Our ittle heart patient, Deve, received surgergy at St. Joseph's Children's Hospital and will now grow up and have a normal life. See the St. Pete Times article here.
5/7/10 Tom Arthur donates the use of his private planeto flya planeload of medical supplies to Haiti for a surgical medical mission team that leaves Saturday, 5/8/10. He is also picking up a 2 year old Haitian child who is in dire need of heart surgery with her father to bring back to Tampa for surgery at St. Joseph's Children's Hospital in Tampa.
4/21/10 Bryan Wilson and Richard Haas of h2w studio architecture + design are donating architecture services to design the new Radio Soleil building in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, to replace the one destroyed in the earthquake.
4/20/10 Shipment of relief goods underway: 24 pallets of food, water, and medical supplies left for Haiti. Blue Grace Logistics and Royal Caribbean donated transportation to get these needed goods to Haiti.
URGENT help needed to send a child to school: Can you help feed, clothe and educate a Haitian child for only $4 a week? Please contact us so that you can change a life in Haiti.
COMING EVENTS:
* New Goat pay it forward program to help the villagers in St. Suzanne.
* Clean water program in schools in the Nord Est area of Haiti.