Providing housing and opportunity for the desperately poor & homeless...
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Biography
The Caring House Project Foundation was founded in 1998 on the premise that stability begins at home. Without the most basic needs of shelter being met, there is often little hope.
Our mission has expanded over the years to include elements now crucial to a self-sufficient existence where the poor and homeless will no longer have to rely on government nor charities to sustain and improve their lives.
As further evidence of our self-sufficient initiative, the recently completed (1.15.08) village in Los Cacaos, Haiti, near the Dominican Republic boarder, combined 35 double homes, a 3,125 sq. ft. school (5-625 sq. ft. classrooms), a large 4,000 sq. ft. community center (kitchen, feeding area, worship, bank room and pharmacy), a health clinic (in community center), establishment of renewable food source to maximize annual yields (goat farm w/ 50 goats, chicken farm w/ 200 chickens, 3 tilapia fish ponds, vegetable farm w/ 3-1,500 sq. ft. green houses) & related land clearing, construction, fencing, seed & fertilizers, 35 pit latrines, 35 showers and two clean drinking water sources.
My Purpose
CHPF is now creating villages based upon this self-sufficiency, such as the significant undertaking we have underway in Testasse, Haiti. This project will run through the end of 2008.
As further evidence of our self-sufficient initiative, the recently completed (1.15.08) village in Los Cacaos, Haiti, near the Dominican Republic boarder, combined 35 double homes, a 3,125 sq. ft. school (5-625 sq. ft. classrooms), a large 4,000 sq. ft. community center (kitchen, feeding area, worship, bank room and pharmacy), a health clinic (in community center), establishment of renewable food source to maximize annual yields (goat farm w/ 50 goats, chicken farm w/ 200 chickens, 3 tilapia fish ponds, vegetable farm w/ 3-1,500 sq. ft. green houses) & related land clearing, construction, fencing, seed & fertilizers, 35 pit latrines, 35 showers and two clean drinking water sources.
Los Cacaos touched nearly 700 lives.
Here is an excerpt from a letter from a new Los Cacaos resident who also works in the school:
I am grateful for the provision of the Los Cacaos village. We found this little 4 year old girl in a shack in the swamp with her two sisters, one 5 years the other 1 year. They were alone, all very hungry. They are our newest residents to move to Los Cacaos Village along with another set of three children who just lost their mom last week. The youngest child of this family had her hand broken in several places. Her mother had symptoms of an illness that would cause her to fall constantly. She fell on the baby several times breaking her hands. God Bless you and those who made Ange Village possible - Delane Baily.
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Requests History
Current project:
Testasse, Haiti,
project will run
through the end of
2008.
Disabled
April 21, 2008
Current project:
Testasse, Haiti,
project will run
through the end of
2008.
Description: Testasse is located on the southeastern peninsular tip of Haiti, 140 miles east of Port-au-Prince and 7 miles from Jeremie. It rarely sees any kind of life-sustaining relief and is one of the poorest cities in the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, where poverty is extreme and housing deplorable.
Testasse (along with most of Haiti) has an infant mortality rate of 22% (22% of the children won't see their 5th birthday), highest death rate from AIDS in the Western Hemisphere (life expectancy of 47 years), a per person/per day income of less than $1 and an 80% unemployment rate.
Category: International, Economic Services
Why? The potential long term impact..
Progress:
$ (93%)
Still needed: $822.6
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Request was active: 453 days
Request created: April 21st, 2008 | Request views: 20 | Request modified 1 time(s) | Last modified: April 21st, 2008
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