Many Hands wants to share with you the joy of giving, as we celebrate the gift given to us through the birth of our savior, Jesus Christ.
The items in this book are part of a holistic poverty alleviation strategy that assists in our work. We seek to make a better future for the people of Haiti and Abaco.
How to Give Joy
I bring you good news of great joy for all people. Today in the town of David a savior has been born to you; He is Christ the Lord.
House Building
Provide a Haitian family with a new house. A safe and healthy place to come home to is a basic need that, if not met, severely restricts someone from developing well. This gift pays for half the cost of a new home for a Haitian family.
Building
Concrete Floor
Give families a safe place to live. Dirt floors expose people to parasites and bacteria that lead to severe illness. A concrete floor in a home helps keep a family from unhealthy conditions. This gift covers the cost of pouring a concrete floor in a typical Haitian home.
Develop a Leader Lead Like Jesus Equip a Chaplain
Train a local leader. This gift covers the tuition and materials for a leader in our Lead Like Jesus course. Leaders run through five months of training, focusing on developing a definition of leadership and creating an action plan. Leaders learn in a relationship-driven program to help them move from where they are to where God wants them to be.
Develop a Leader Share price
Support Marriage
Bring joy to a bride-to-be. Many women are unable to get married due to the cost. Cover a bride's wedding expenses, including dress fitting, ring sizing, shoes, accessories, and more.
Help further the work of the gospel. This gift helps to cover the cost of one-on-one training and mentoring for a chaplain on our staff. They will gain solid foundations in biblical training, church leadership, lay ministry, and more.
Equip a Chaplain Share price $65
Give the gift of marriage. Enable a couple to say "I do" on their wedding day by providing a dress and shoes for the bride, shoes and suits for the groom, rings for the couple, decorations for their ceremony, and food for their guests. Support a Couple
Give a Bible
Bring light into spiritual darkness. Lives are transformed when the Good News is expressed in people's native language. Audio Bibles are loaded with the Old and New Testaments and other Biblical teachings in Creole. This gift puts a Bible or Audio Bible in someone's hand with a visit from our chaplain to learn more about our Lord Jesus Christ.
Secure Family Package
Empower a family by providing a safe home and food security, keeping them together, and helping them put meals on their table for years to come! This package will provide a new concrete floor for a home, two goats, tools, a new garden with seeds, access to a local cooperative, training, and food for a month, starting families on their journey to self-reliance. Children in a family can receive a uniform and school supplies, medicine, and ongoing health checks, preparing them for a brighter future.
$1,250
Learn more about Stefani Andjonn and her family
AgrIc ult ure
Help a Farming Family
Equip a local family to provide for themselves. Many families in Haiti have the ability, but not the means, to grow their own food. Your gift will give them what they need to ensure a plentiful harvest, including seed, tools, and farming support.
Garden & Hydro Training
Teach people to grow their own food. Local agricultural knowledge has been lost over the generations. Partnering with local organizations, we help expand the agriculture knowledge base through various training. Your gift helps give Bahamians access to training, including backyard farming, hydroponics farming, and raised garden bed farming.
Shade House
Construct a shade house to feed families. Shade houses allow us to grow large crops of nutrient-rich foods that are difficult to grow in local soil. Your gift will enable us to feed families in our programs and provide high-quality food for local markets.
1 Shade House Share price
Family Garden Care Training
Give knowledge and education to dedicated Haitian farmers, helping them support their families in the future. This gift pays for a parent in our programs to learn how to properly care for and attend to a garden, giving them the skills they need to provide for themselves.
Raised Garden
Construct a raised garden. Raised gardens allow easier access for those with physical disabilities, enabling them to provide food for themselves.
Build a Raised Garden $25
Give a Chicken
Provide a simple source of protein. Chicken meat can be used in multiple meals, and hens can lay hundreds of eggs a year. This gift funds local farms, helping to feed those in our programs.
1 Chicken
5 Chickens
$10
$50
Give a Goat
Provide a source of stability. A goat provides a stream of income and food for a family in need. This gift provides a pregnant goat to a family.
1 Goat
Share price
$100
Give a Cow
Provide nourishment to hungry families. A cow can feed hundreds, supplying red meat and nutrient-rich milk to growing children. This supplies a full-grown cow, which is used in our programs.
1 Cow
Share price
$750
$100
School Ag Training
Give a Farm
Help boost our agronomy programs. This gift provides five chickens, two goats, and a cow to boost the herds we invest in.
Expose the next generation to agriculture. We work with primary and secondary schools in Abaco to create gardens and bring agriculture training to students. This gift provides tools, seeds, or other needed supplies to schools to train students. x5
Give a Farm $1,000 x1 x10
Educat I o n Summer School
Help further the academic and personal growth of students. Our summer school programs focus on children's continued physical, intellectual, and social development. It offers hands-on experience, keeping them engaged in learning. This gift covers the cost of a day of programming and food.
Day of Summer School
Week of Summer School $75 $375
Teach a Student
Give the gift of math. Equip our teacher through our Academic Recovery for Kids (ARK) program, designated to bring at-risk students back to grade level in math. This gift covers a portion of the monthly salary of the lead teacher.
Teach a Student Math
Character Development Program
Help a child meet their potential. Cover the cost for a student to develop their life and leadership skills. Through our bi-monthly Character Development program, we work with children in Abaco to curb school violence and build healthy communities.
School Lunch Sponsor
Help students continue to learn by sponsoring a lunch. Each school day our staff in Haiti feed lunch to over 200 kids and teachers lunch. Your gift provides nutritious meals to our students to set them up for success.
Give the gift of reading. This gift puts five books into our Academic Recovery for Kids (ARK) program library. In partnership with the Central Abaco Primary School, we provide access to reading resources to over 600 students.
for Library
Remove some of the barriers that keep a child from attending school. Supply students with everything they need to enroll in our School of Light. This gift covers the cost of a child's uniform, pencils, and books.
Give a teacher a fair wage. Teachers serve a vital role in children's education and as leaders in the classroom. This gift supports the salary of a lead teacher in one of our schools.
Build a School
Help us finish our campaign to raise $125,000 to complete the final phase of the addition to our Sylvain Christian School of Light. Your donation will help us complete construction on the 7th, 8th, and 9th grade classrooms and allow our students to continue their education.
Build a School Share price
Learn more about our mission to build a brighter future in Haiti
Family & Community
Program Sponsor
First 1,000 Days - Haiti
Come alongside a baby and mom in our First 1,000 Days Program in Haiti. This program provides children and families with nutrition, health care, education, and support.
Maternity Kit
Fund a Program
First 1,000 Days - Abaco
Come alongside our new First 1,000 Days Program in Abaco. This program provides children and families with nutrition, health care, education, and support.
New moms are often unprepared for or unable to afford the right supplies for when the baby arrives. Our Maternity Kits are delivered by local midwives and nurses and include everyday essentials like a onesie, socks, hat and blankets for the baby, along with diapers, washcloths, soap and so much more.
Maternity Kit $50
Medicine for a Month
Provide children with the gift of health. Medicine is hard to afford in Haiti, especially when families struggle to buy food. This gift covers the cost of antibiotics, fever reducers, and other needed medication for 50 children for one month.
Mobility Cart
Give the gift of mobility to people with disabilities. For people in Haiti who can’t walk independently, a Mobility Cart gives independence back by breaking their isolation and allowing them to be a part of their community. This gift covers the cost of delivering an assembled Mobility Cart to a person’s home.
Out Your Hand
Go beyond the reach of our daily programs to provide for the basic needs of individuals and families in the communities we serve. Through the Stretch Out Your Hand initiative, our staff identifies urgent or critical needs and addresses them. Your gifts will provide much-needed resources such as food relief and medical care.
Local transportation is essential for our teams focused on community outreach and ministry. With this donation, you will assist our pastoral and nursing teams get to their home visits, leadership sessions, and community meetings.
Feed a Family
Give hope to those who are hungry. One in three Haitian children is stunted or irreversibly short for their age due to malnutrition. This gift of a month’s worth of meals, including rice, beans, cooking oil, and a bag of spices, helps break that statistic while giving parents hope and their children a healthy future.
Newborn Care
Come alongside a mother and her new bundle of joy. Provide the essentials necessary for a new mother to care for her child. This gift provides medical assistance, food support, vitamins, education classes, and home visits to remind new mothers that they are not alone.
Emergency Care
Provide critical emergency care for children and families. With no access to healthcare or insurance, many in Haiti cannot get emergency aid or care, with some losing their lives in the process. This gift supports those who need immediate medical attention.
Sports Camp
Develop the physical, mental, and social health of the community. At these events, we bring people together, with participants gaining a sense of belonging through team building. Players also receive mentoring from local positive role models. This gift covers the cost of space, equipment, coaches, and food.
Camp
The following products were made by new Vi Bella artisans trained on the Many Hands campus in Pignon thanks to a combined partnership. Nine Haitian women were offered full-time employment with Vi Bella after showing good skill and attention to detail during training with seasoned Vi Bella artisans. The following items were made by these women and can be purchased on the Vi Bella website.
Garland
Hymnal Garland 48” made from recycled hymnals.
Earrings
Darlyne (gold/silver) plated earware, Glass delica beads. Each bead is strung by hand by team in Pignon.
Ornament
Camila (white) paper beads rolled by hand by team in Pignon. The beads are made out of recycled newspaper and are glued, dried, and then painted.
1 Garland $25 Scan to purchase
1 Pair of Earrings $25 Scan to purchase
1 Ornament $14 Scan to purchase
Support an Artisan
Train and support an artisan in Haiti. Partnering with Vi Bella, we build employment skills and confidence in local Haitian women. This gift provides women with full-time employment, training, and materials needed to create jewelry, with the opportunity of a sustainable future.
Give Joy: Catalog Order Form
Build a School
Concrete Floor
Develop a Leader
Emergency Care
Enroll a Student
Equip a Chaplain
Family Garden Care Training
Feed a Family
Fill a Backpack
Fund a Program
Gift of Garden Training
Give an Audio Bible
Give a Bible
Give a Chicken
Give a Cow
Give a Farm
Give a Goat
Help a Farming Family
House
Library
Maternity
Medicine for a Month
Mobility Cart Distribution
Motorcycle
Newborn Care
Pay a Teacher
Program Sponsor (Month)
Program Sponsor (Year)
Raised Garden
School Lunch Sponsor
Shade House
Sports Camp
Stretch Out Your Hand
Summer School (Day)
Summer School (Week)
Support a Bride-to-be
Support a Couple
Support an Artisan
Supply a School Garden
Teach Student Math
Many Hands is an Iowa-based nonprofit creating local and global life transformation. Established in 2008, the organization aims to ignite generosity, grow community, and take people on IMPACT journeys to carve a new, better path to life. Each year, the organization reaches at least 30,000 people through its operations in the Caribbean, Impact Trips serving in Abaco, Bahamas, and Many Hands Thrift Markets located in Iowa.
Many Hands is called to transform together, to be love in action, in a broken world.
