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Wish for Haiti in the Denver Post Haiti: Reaching Out to Save the Innocents

During this past weekend Father Bien-aime, the Board of Wish for Haiti and some of our families gathered in Denver.  For two days we held productive planning meetings.  Jim Christensen managed the group conducting thorough, disciplined and creative sessions. The children are still in Ouanaminthe for the time being.  With all of your help we [...]

On Saturday, May 8th  at 8:00pm est CNN will be airing a special program, “Rescued” with Soledad O’Brien.  This documentary will be of interest to all of us who care about Haiti’s children. Rescued “Haiti’s Children have suffered more than any child, or adult, should have to, yet they still represent the best that Haiti [...]

Please be sure to check our page “Children Helping Children” to see what contributions are being made by children from all over the country for those supported by Wish for Haiti. Children Helping Children

Below is an excerpt from Tracy’s travel journal. Saturday Awake Saturday at 6:00 head to the “coffee shop” – a lovely older Dominican woman boiling coffee in small metal pans over a fire – served up with lots of sugar in a very small cup – it will work!  Drive to border at DaJabon – [...]

While the group was in Haiti, they visited the children and also explored various regions and sites for possible locations for a new orphanage outside of Port-au-Prince.  WFH’s friend, Claudine Auguste, has been of tremendous help in this process.

The travel group has returned and has much to report. The children are all doing extremely well at Hope for Haiti Children’s Center in Ouanaminthe.  They seem happy and healthy.  They are going to school. Considering the condition of most of Haiti, and Port-au-Prince especially, this is truly a remarkable situation. The children have a [...]

The Wish for Haiti travel group of Dan Jepson, Nick and Tracy Metzler, and Doug Woodson has returned safely to the United States.  More to come…

In Sunday’s Boston Globe there was a  good article that shouldn’t be missed.  It’s by Ted Widmer, director of the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University and a senior research fellow at the New America Foundation. How Haiti Saved America