Feeling good...

Two people have emailed me and said that they donated to Healing Haiti based off my recommendation. It feels good to know that I've helped influence some people to give to such a great organization.

You can help by helping spread the word about this organization.. Please join them on Facebook Causes. Just click here and join. And please invite your friends to join too.

Dave's now considering joining me on a trip to Haiti. It would be so awesome to have that experience with Dave. Not sure when exactly we'll be able to go, but I emailed Healing Haiti to get details about a trip sometime this year. I know now that Dave and I will be able to make this trip happen. I've been talking to a couple of people about it and they've brought up on their own that they'd want to help sponsor us. I also awoke to a great fundraising idea, so I'm pretty confident we'd be able to get the money we need to go.

It's such a terrible tragedy, but I'm feeling really good about being able to help.

J.B.

Haiti

The news about the earthquake in Haiti is so tragic. Frankly, I don't know what to say about it. A country filled with people who were suffering are only suffering more today.

For Christmas, Dave and I decided to give money to Healing Haiti, which helps orphans by providing food, water, education and housing.

So tonight I was checking out Healing Haiti's Web site and blog to see if they had any information on how they'd been impacted by the earthquake. As you can imagine, they're still trying to get information from their workers and contacts. They have an orphanage in Titanyen where houses were completely destroyed. In their recent blog post they said, they haven't been able to reach the director of that orphanage and don't know anything about the 23 children there. 

They also said this:  

This is so much worse that we could have ever imagined and the information we continue to receive is not getting any better. This is truly an unbelievable event that we still cannot comprehend. Before the quake, only 30% of the people in Haiti had access to clean drinking water and now there is even less water available. We have one water truck staffed and will be running again when the roads are passable and we have another water truck that was shipped down last year that we want to put into service. We are also working with Feed My Starving Children to ship an emergency container of food to Haiti. I will be leading a small contingent of volunteers to Haiti hopefully in the next week.

Please consider helping Healing Haiti get their second water truck up and running. You can donate online through this link.

I've talked to a few people about it, but I'd been thinking that I want to join Healing Haiti on one of their mission trips this year. I guess I did mention it here. Now I'm feeling like this is something I really need to do. I have no idea how I would come up with the money to do it, but I know I can do it if I'm determined enough.

J.B.

Merry Christmas, Chubs!

We did it. We found an organization that fit our needs and gave a gift in honor of our baby. Thanks for all of your help suggesting ideas. Through a friend, we learned of an organzation called, Healing Haiti. It's a small non-profit organization that helps orphans and people in Haiti. They provide food, water, education and housing. Right now they're supporting 53 orphans -- and I guess we're supporting them now too.

Merry Christmas, everyone! I hope that you feel the spirit of season and that your Christmas will be filled with peace, joy and love.


J.B.