It's not just about building buildings. It's about building lives.
These joyful sounds are from children at Kenbe Fem, our children's home in Raymond, Haiti. The video was taken in 2016 when we installed a water well that provides clean, potable water to Kenbe Fem and our two schools.
In 2021, because of generous donors, we bought the truck in the photo below. In addition to picking up food to feed the children at our schools a daily hot meal, the truck is used to deliver water from the well to people in the community and local jails. Without this water, many of these people would not survive.
Sounds of Joy!
WE ARE SAVING THE LIVES OF NEARLY 500 CHILDREN EVERY DAY
The children's home in Raymond, Haiti, provides all needs for 54 children, who would otherwise be on the streets or living in neglectful and/or abusive situations. Our two schools in Haiti provide an education and daily meal for nearly 400 children, who would likely not get either of those if it weren't for the schools. These are life/death impacts that affect hundreds immediately and at least thousands for future generations.
WE ARE HELPING STRUGGLING FAMILIES IN OUR COMMUNITY
We provide rice and beans that get packaged into one-pound bags by local volunteers to local food pantries. These pantries serve hundreds of families every week and deliver food to low-income senior adults. Leadership at these local ministries tell us that rice is one of the most expensive commodities for them to provide. We give them thousands of pounds per year.
WE ARE RESTORING SIGHT TO OUR POOREST NEIGHBORS
We do free eye clinics in Mexico that provide sight-restoring surgeries and eyeglasses to hundreds of people from Mexico's poorest and most vulnerable.
WE ARE PROVIDING HOUSING FACILITIES FOR VOLUNTEERS FROM AROUND THE COUNTRY WHO COME TO SERVE LOCALLY
We have two bunk houses that sleep 70 volunteers, a 5,000 sq. ft. building with full kitchen facilities, and a bathroom trailer with three full bathrooms. These facilities were built in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey. Since then, thousands of volunteer teams from a variety of organizations have stayed there while serving in Brazoria and Galveston Counties.
What We Do
If supporting this life-changing work interests you and you want to know more, please browse through our web site.
We have been serving others since 2004, so we won't cover all we have done in the past 20+ years.
However, we hope you will get a sense of who we are and what we do!
There have been a lot of highlights over the years! Here are a few!
In the months following the devastating flood waters of Hurricane Harvey, our teams built 18 homes for families, whose homes in Brazoria County had been destroyed. The first home was a "tiny house" for an elderly couple who, since losing their home in the flood, had been living under a tarp. All that remained of their home was the toilet, which they wrapped a tarp around and still used as their bathroom. We were joined by volunteers from all over the country. Here is a picture of a volunteer from the Mennonite community presenting the couple with the keys to their new home.
New Homes!
