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Last July, elementary school teacher Tiffany Marshall spent a month volunteering at the Holt Fontana Village, the childcare center Holt supports in Haiti. [...] Share
Juntunen family on holiday. Several years ago, while volunteering at an orphanage in Haiti, Craig Juntunen’s heart was captured. Her name was Esperancia. “I can’t explain it at all, other than to say she instantly captured my heart. I called and told my wife that we were about to become parents,” he told [...] Share Families in the coastal town of Montrouis learn to treat cholera symptoms using Oral Rehydration Solution. In the year following the 7.0 magnitude earthquake that rocked the island nation of Haiti, killing over 230,000 and leaving one million homeless, little has changed. Only five percent of debris and rubble has been cleared from the [...] Share The Holt International magazine featured Haiti in our Fall 2010 issue. Read more about our ongoing work with children and families in Haiti. January 12th marks the one-year anniversary of the 7.0 magnitude earthquake that devastated Haiti and killed an estimated 230,000 people. On this day, we remember those who lost their lives, the thousands [...] Share Holt’s work in Haiti after the earthquake…and how you can help Near Port-au-Prince Airport Road, in a Haitian community called Village Solidarite, 22-year-old Nahomie holds in her arms her ailing 2-year-old daughter, Nournia. Nahomie has just returned from her fourth trip in eight months to St. Catherine hospital in Cite Soleil – a slum of [...] “There have been no cases to date that have been reported that have affected any Holt children or families,” says Sarah Halfman, Holt’s director of programs in Latin America, Haiti and Romania. “As for preparing a coordinated response to the outbreak at this time for the families in the family preservation program, ongoing preventative education on cholera and hygiene seems to be the best course of [...] Share Watch the video below and find out what Holt sponsorship is all about…..and how you can change a child’s life…. Sponsor a child in Holt’s care today! Tweet Share Manel’s journey from Holt Fontana Village to his home in the United States by Laura Conners The road to bring Manel home from Haiti was a long one, but one we would travel again and again. After deciding that international adoption was the answer for us, Scott and I quickly chose Haiti. At first, we were leaning [...] Share “To everything there is a season, and a time for every matter or purpose under heaven.”—Ecclesiastes 3:1 The following is a glimpse of Holt’s work in Haiti since the devastating 7.0 magnitude earthquake….. A time to embrace…… Three weeks after the earthquake, Holt Fontana Village staff in Haiti gathered around to say goodbye to 21 children leaving [...] |
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