HAFP Booklet 2021

every child deserves A

family

Every day in Haiti, children experience the poverty-driven cycles of neglect, abandonment, trafficking, and slavery. This is because families lack access to social services, job stability, medical care, and quality education.

Hands and Feet Project is a group of passionate child and family advocates working to break these cycles. We fight to keep families together through: support services, job creation, providing family-style homes and caregivers for children in crisis, and restoring survivors of human trafficking.

Our Christ-centered purpose is to provide familystyle, residential care and sustainable solutions that fight against Haiti’s orphan crisis.

Since 2004, our organization has provided homes for 123 children, prevented 130 children from experiencing separation from their families, and employed 370 individuals in the community.

you can be the solution We believe God called us to stand for each vulnerable child. You can fight for vulnerable children with us by: committing to pray for the strengthening of families, becoming a monthly donor to our Preserving Families Fund or Providing Families Fund, and by signing up for our monthly newsletter to learn more about how the story of God is at work in Haiti.

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OUR PROGRAMS Caring for the orphan and abandoned.

Fighting to keep families together.

PRESERVING FAMILIES We are Preserving Families by advocating and fighting to keep families together. The purpose of Preserving Families is to keep children in their families of origin by providing support and guidance for biological families who are committed to caring for their children, but are at-risk of abandonment or trafficking due to financial and societal challenges. We believe the best option for the long-term care of any child is within a thriving, healthy family.

PROVIDING FAMILIES We are Providing Families through our staff and caregivers for children who have lost or have limited connection to their biological family. The purpose of Providing Families is to ensure that each child who is under the guardianship of Hands and Feet Project receives high quality care, from the time that they are placed on our campus to the time that they transition into independence and community interdependence.

EXPERIENCING MISSIONS We are Experiencing Missions by changing the traditional approach to missions and hosting outside job creation initiatives.

Through this, we can share a new vision for Haiti. The purpose of Experiencing Missions is to provide individuals the opportunity to experience all of the beauty that Haiti has to offer through serving.

RESTORING SURVIVORS We are Restoring Survivors by partnering with anti-trafficking organizations and local authorities on rescue operations, while also providing respite care solutions to those that need placed in an Aftercare Program. The purpose of Restoring Survivors is to establish a safe and stable environment for survivors through rescue, restoration, and community reintegration.

God is still in Haiti.

Although Haiti

goes through difficult things, God is here; God is still working. Hands and Feet Project is building its community to what God wants it to be; their impact is eternal.

- ISAIAH, GUEST

In order to accomplish these objectives, we apply the “Circle of Care model” to every aspect of our mission.

The Hands and Feet Project Circle of Care is a comprehensive model that meets the physical, emotional, spiritual, and educational needs of every child under our care. This model has set a standard of excellence for our teams as we approach all aspects of our work and strive to live out our mission.

PHYSICAL CARE • • • • • •

Clean Water Nutrition Ongoing Medical & Dental Care Dignified Private Spaces Safe Homes Health and Educational Trainings

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Private Christian Schooling Tutoring Vocational Skills Training Transitional Living Programs Daycare Services

EDUCATIONAL CARE

SPIRITUAL CARE

CIRCLE OF CARE

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Local Church Attendance Village Worship Bible Training Faith-based Curriculum VBS Christ-Centered Care Discipleship Bibles Age Appropriate Small Groups

EMOTIONAL CARE • • • • • •

Family-Style Care Safe & Nurturing Environment Promotions of Healthy Attachments Ongoing Assessments of Care Caregiver Training Counseling and Clinical Services

We work tirelessly in hopes to see each child reach their God-given potential. We strive to see families reunified, to see the child abandonment cycles in Haiti no longer exist, and to see children raised by family. We hold to a deep belief that

there is, indeed, more to come.

- andrea, staff

G E T I N V O LV E D !

How can you get involved with Hands and Feet Project? There are several ways to be a part of what God is doing in Haiti!

PRAY HAITI Pray for government leaders, stability, and economic growth. Pray for a better life for the people of Haiti, that the brokenness, division of wealth, and the strongholds of poverty subside.

HANDS & FEET PROJECT Pray for the leadership, wisdom, and discernment in the decisions made. Pray for the next steps as an organization and our approach to love and serve our communities and our staff as they are the hands and feet of Jesus in our work. Pray for provisions and protection for the ministry.

CHILDREN & FAMILIES WE SERVE: Pray that their specific needs are seen and known so they can grow to reach their full potential. Pray that their relationship with God and with each other is strengthened.

Pray for their connectedness to their community, families, and for the reintegration and reconnection of broken families.

GIVE DONATE When you make a donation, you can direct it to our General Fund, which is dedicated to our greatest need, our Preserving Families Fund or our Providing Families Fund. When you give, you’re supporting our mission to provide family-style residential care and sustainable solutions that fight the Haiti orphan crisis.

SPONSOR A CHILD Each of the children in our care have a limited number of sponsors. Each sponsor commits to a monthly $35 donation that covers the total cost of a child’s care at Hands and Feet Project. When you sponsor a child, you receive updates, pictures, and messages via email or by logging into your sponsor profile. Child Sponsorship funding is dedicated to our Child Care Programs.

GIVE ONLINE AT HANDSANDFEETPROJECT.ORG

INTERN Hands and Feet Project offers volunteer intern positions at our various locations throughout Haiti. Volunteer interns get the chance to learn mission work firsthand by working alongside each site’s directors. At our Jacmel Children’s Village, volunteer interns help out in the office, assist in media/marketing projects, and play a huge role in planning summer activities for our kids. Interns usually spend three months in Haiti.

“Our involvement with Hands and Feet Project has been

life-altering

as we look at God’s world through

a completely different lens now. It is our honor to help spread the word of what God is doing in Haiti.”

- Ken & Beth, Community Ambassadors

“The Tim Tebow Foundation has been blessed to come alongside the Hands and Feet Project in caring for Haiti’s orphaned children. Being on the ground in Haiti and witnessing the way they operate, it’s evident Hands and Feet is committed to bringing Faith, Hope and Love to some amazing kids and families in need.”

- TIM TEBOW

There are even more areas where you can get involved! Whether it’s through an internship, becoming a corporate sponsor, supporting Haiti Made, pursuing a career with us, participating in fundraisers, or becoming a community ambassador, you have lots of ways you can make an impact in Haiti.

Hands and Feet Project relies on all our supporters so we can effectively serve the people of Haiti as God has called us to do.

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“WHEN YOU FALL IN LOVE WITH HAITI, you also share in Haiti’s burdens. That burden, like love, lasts forever. When Haiti hurts, you hurt. When Haiti breaks, you break.

My prayer today is for all those who love Haiti not to lose hope, but to keep your hand on the plow. God has not and will not abandon Haiti and neither shall we.”

- Mark, Founder

@hafproject