Haiti, Cholera, and Funding

The time is quickly passing by before the the Haiti mission trip and with the news this week of cholera in Haiti the situation on the ground is quite desperate. Now, to be fair, our plan in Haiti is to build a school, which will do nothing to help ease the physical pain or suffering of those that are still reeling from the earthquake or have been stricken by cholera. We do feel the school will represent hope to a community and without hope it can be hard to move forward in situations such as those in Haiti.

On a more practical level, we are are looking at some water purification technology we might be able to bring with us or build out of local materials. Some water filtration has been done on the previous trips in the Dominican Republic and we hope to learn from that as well as other inventions we have seen such as sterilization of water by sunlight or clay pot filter.

I promised an update of the fund raising for this trip. I am currently at $350 out of $2000. So please, if you feel you would like to donate to help support me on this trip I would truly appreciate it. You can donate electronically or send donations to the address below. Any amount is appreciate.

Acton Congregational Church

c/o Haitian Mission Trip / David Bainbridge

12 Concord Road

Acton, MA 01720

Haiti Fund Raising Progress (and more)

Well it has been a little under a month since I announced my fund raising efforts for the Haiti mision trip and as you can see by the tracker on the left I have not been too successful to date, but I do want to thank those who have contributed: thanks Mom! $100 down, $1,900 to go.

It has been a fairly busy month. I have been working on raising awareness of the trip at church by manning a table during the coffee hour and talking about last year's trip and the plans for for this year's trip. I was also sharing the video I made from the photos of the last trip.

I set up a Facebook group so that people interested in the trip can track activities, get event notifications, etc. And finally I printed up some cards (below) for both the Haiti and Dominican Republic Mission trips.

So while there is lots of activities the funds are still moving slowly. If you would like to donate please send anything, and I do mean anything to:

Acton Congregational Church
c/o Haitian Mission Trip / David Bainbridge
12 Concord Road
Acton, MA 01720