The Haitian Timoun Foundation (HTF), a US 501(c)(3) public charity, is a high impact, clearly focused, grassroots movement that has been bringing hope, sustainability, and dignity to the children and people of Haiti for almost 20 years. We believe in education, economic development, community engagement, and local leadership.
For years HTF has been inviting and shepherding people on multiple immersion trips into our work in Haiti. After the January 2010 earthquake, the plight of the children in Jacmel and their sense of being forgotten got our attention. Out of that awareness the very first Fèt Bondye Bò Lanmè conceived and has been an annual affair that gets better and better. The camp is envisioned and led by a true team of Haitian-American partners.
This year's camp - the tenth of its kind - was led by 50 Haitian monitors and leaders from among our partners in Haiti. Together this team envisioned and led this camp in which 250 impoverished children from the Jacmel area participated. Every day the children were immersed in all sorts of intentional and fun activities that gave them vital life skills, and strengthened their awareness of the enduring support and goodwill of HTF. Moreover, we fed them two meals a day, and provided bags of rice to each family to supplement food needs during the summer.
Four summers ago, HTF was excited to be able to extend the reach of its summer camp initiative by adding a second week of summer camp in partnership with Fonkoze Bank's Chemen Lavi Miyò (CLM) project in Mirebalais, Haiti. Through CLM, women-led families with three to seven children, who were once among the world’s most desperately poor, are given the training, resources and empowerment to lift themselves out of extreme poverty.
This year's camp reached 1,000 children of the women CLM serves in the Central Plateau region of Haiti. The theme of the week was "Eat Together, Play Together, and Learn Together." This camp was not just about letting these children know that we care about them; we also taught them useful life skills, such as personal hygiene, a necessity in a country that has had a cholera outbreak and where too many children die from preventable diseases. These children also were fed two meals each day, which is a real blessing to them. Most of them only get to eat a few times a week and are seriously malnourished.
The HTF Golf Classic was started in 2013 as a way to support the fundraising efforts of the youth who serve at summer camps in Haiti in partnership with HTF.
For years HTF has been inviting and shepherding people on multiple immersion trips into our work in Haiti. After the January 2010 earthquake, the plight of the children in Jacmel and their sense of being forgotten got our attention. Out of that awareness the very first Fèt Bondye Bò Lanmè conceived and has been an annual affair that gets better and better. The camp is envisioned and led by a true team of Haitian-American partners.
This year's camp - the tenth of its kind - was led by 50 Haitian monitors and leaders from among our partners in Haiti. Together this team envisioned and led this camp in which 250 impoverished children from the Jacmel area participated. Every day the children were immersed in all sorts of intentional and fun activities that gave them vital life skills, and strengthened their awareness of the enduring support and goodwill of HTF. Moreover, we fed them two meals a day, and provided bags of rice to each family to supplement food needs during the summer.
Four summers ago, HTF was excited to be able to extend the reach of its summer camp initiative by adding a second week of summer camp in partnership with Fonkoze Bank's Chemen Lavi Miyò (CLM) project in Mirebalais, Haiti. Through CLM, women-led families with three to seven children, who were once among the world’s most desperately poor, are given the training, resources and empowerment to lift themselves out of extreme poverty.
This year's camp reached 1,000 children of the women CLM serves in the Central Plateau region of Haiti. The theme of the week was "Eat Together, Play Together, and Learn Together." This camp was not just about letting these children know that we care about them; we also taught them useful life skills, such as personal hygiene, a necessity in a country that has had a cholera outbreak and where too many children die from preventable diseases. These children also were fed two meals each day, which is a real blessing to them. Most of them only get to eat a few times a week and are seriously malnourished.
The HTF Golf Classic was started in 2013 as a way to support the fundraising efforts of the youth who serve at summer camps in Haiti in partnership with HTF.