IN CONSTRUCTION
ALMOST READY TO BEGIN THE SALE OF WATER IN HAITI
For the last 2 years we have worked hard, our focus in Haiti, is to help the Shelter achieve independence. With the help of different NGOs, we have built dormitories, high schools, the refectory, bakery, toilets, showers and a drinking water well. We also delivered one hundred beds with mattresses.
Much remains to be done. But as they say, Rome was not built in a day ...
Many people that have followed me since I began volunteering for this shelter know that 100% of the money I collect goes to the shelter in order to provide the 100 children with basic everyday needs.
I am leaving again on February 19 for Haiti and wholeheartedly wish to be able to could give them $1 200.00 so they could finalize the water sale.
They will need the following material :
1 truck ground sand = 8000 gdes ,
15 bags of cement = 5835 gdes
Tiles = 5100 gdes
Painting = 4000 gdes
Labor = 10000 gdes
Door repair = 15000 gdes
Unexpected = 1500 gdes
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Total: 49,435 gourdes or 1 200.00 USD
With this money, they can finish the water point of sale project. Once that is finished, they will be able to sell their water and have a gain that goes to support a number of their daily needs.
You can help me collect this amount by making a donation to FENDLI. A tax return will be presented for the year 2014.
On behalf of myself and all of the children, thank you very much .
France
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Project History
Children's Shelters of Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes (Haiti)
One flight attendants at Air Transat, Anne-Marie Bryson, lived a big psychological shock when, at the age of 7, one of her close friends died in an accident. All her hair fell and she became completely bald. She remained throughout her childhood, her adolescence, and even until she began working for Air Transat, a few years ago. It goes without saying that Anne-Marie had a large collection of wigs she wore daily. At age 20, her mother took her to France, at Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes, in the hope that some prayers spoken in this holy place would regrow her hair, but in vain.
January 12, 2010, a massive earthquake devastated Haiti. All flights to Haiti, including ours, have been canceled, but a few days later, Air Transat decided to organize a humanitarian flight to Haiti.This aircraft was made available to the Canadian government. Just before this flight, Anne-Marie told a worker at the Institute for Integral Training of Montreal (http://www.ifhim.ca) who worked with her daughter, a nun of the Congregation of Quebec Sisters Christ-Roi who lived in Haiti, but was visiting Montreal during the earthquake, was blocked in Canada and sought to regain Haiti. Anne-Marie decided to find, by all means, a seat on the Air Transat flight to the religious. She spent the day on the phone, and in the evening, she received a call from the Centre for Studies and International Cooperation (http://www.ceci.ca) advising her that a person had withdrawn and that a place was available for the religious. Thus she was able to rejoin her congregation just days after the earthquake.
Some days later, Anne-Marie found that her hair started to grow. Months later, the same nun was visiting Montreal and Anne-Marie met her. She bombarded her with questions on Haiti and everything there is to it. The nun told her about a children's shelter in Haiti and the help her congregation was doing. They needed a drinking water well to be drilled. Anne-Marie decided she was going to help this shelter drilling that well. The name of the shelter in question : Shelter for Children Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes... Today, Anne-Marie does more than fly.
Anne-Marie organized a first trip to see the shelter needs. There she met the director and her 92 protected. A second trip followed, then a third. She founded a support group on Facebook which now hosts 142 members, most of whom are employees of Air Transat. With the help of several colleagues, she organized collections of objects that have been routed to the shelter.
She started to tender all flights to PAP where she meets stakeholders in Haiti. She developed her network of contacts. She learned Creole. Other employees of Air Transat have heard of it and her activities. They have volunteered to collect not only objects but to go help at the shelter : France Robillard, Russel Cate, Ariane Charron and Gilles Hudicourt are already rendered. Others expressed a desire to go there in the future. We have created a blog (http://fendl.blogspot.ca/), not only to talk about the shelter, but also to raise money for the shelter and children.
We also found a Quebecc non-profit charitable, Les enfants d’amour, whose director, Louise Brissette, Knight of the Order of Quebec, Member of the Order of Canada and Medal Kiwanis World Service, agreed to provide tax receipts to all individuals who donate to the home.
During her travels, Anne-Marie has encountered a Quebec businessman, Mario Landreville, which for its part, through its contacts with the same religion of Christ-Roi, was also committed to helping the shelter. He managed, by itself, to collect tens of thousands of dollars that have been engaged in the construction of the new shelter. Mr. Landreville has now joined our group.
Following several meetings with Air Transat, Gilles Hudicourt and Kamala Brownrigg, we decided to form a formal group that we named the "Support Group of Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes International "(FENDLI).
This home has a hundred children today and there are none for adoption. Director, Mrs Maud Laurent, Haitian social worker, student, educates and cares for these children as if there were her own children. She needs the help of volunteers to help her in her approach both in terms of education, cooking, storage of the donations and simply to share some love with these children who desperately needs it.
