Local Volunteers Heading to Haiti have Successful Pancake Breakfast Fundraiser
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A packed St. Joseph’s House of Hospitality boasted an all-you-could-eat pancake breakfast this past Sunday in order to raise money for two of its members who are planning to head back to Haiti in order to complete and expand sanitation and water purification programs as well as social empowerment and infrastructure projects already begun last spring.
Sarah Brownell and Kevin Foos—full-time volunteers with St. Joe’s—will continue work started with the community in Borgne, Haiti, Sustainable Organic Integrated Livelihoods, and Haiti Outreach: Pwoje Espwa or H.O.P.E. when they depart Rochester sometime in January. The two volunteers plan on finishing the refurbishing of a “poor houseâ€â€”a space for individuals and families who lack housing, build ecologically sound toilets, expand sanitation as well as water purification systems, expand on a photo project called “Looking Through Their Eyesâ€, and create an experimental garden in order to demonstrate new compost techniques. Other goals include the creation of a community center, starting a textbook lending library, and expanding education projects and health care training.
Sarah and Kevin are looking for both travel and project donations. Please e-mail Sarah at zanmitaj@yahoo.com for more information.
Also, the two volunteers will be presenting to the Rochester Committee on Latin America and others on their work in Haiti: January 3rd, 7PM at DUPC.
Additional Information: St. Joseph's House of Hospitality | Haiti Outreach: Pwoje Espwa or H.O.P.E. | Sustainible Organic Integrated Livelihoods or S.O.I.L. | Rochester Committee on Latin America or ROCLA | Haiti, Borgne's Technology Center: Sante Teknoloji