Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Thursday, June 17, 2010
Bonjou!
J'taime Haiti!! We said farewell to Pastor Gary and Sarah this morning. We were all sad to see them leave. They left at 5:15 this morning and arrived at the airport 45 min before they're flight left. Yikes! Today was another scorcher, though the trips to taino beach definitely help! But trying to sleep at night is a whole other ball game. We had the medical team arrive on Tuesday, and if you ask me, they couldn't have arrived at a better time. We seemed to have a few injuries that day, not just the medical team, but some of the Haitians. I (Lauren) have been feeling much better today. I'm still fairly weak and I'm not able to eat much... but feeling so much better! Kenzie and I were able to hand out the letter's and gifts that the sponsors sent out with us. That was so much fun! The kids had a spring in their step after that. The guys continue to work on their construction. From my perspective I'd say it's going quite well. They had a bit more of a rhythm going today which was quite neat to see. It's been pretty neat to see the unity forming with in our team and seeing people getting out of their comfort zones. I'm quite looking forward for what else God has planned for us down here! He has been so faithful on this trip! We miss you all! We'd appreciate your prayers! God bless!!
The destruction of the church, well part of it. It's kinda hard to see.
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Hello to you from Haiti. I thought I might include some more pictures of the team that is down here so you can see how they are doing. Lauren got sick Monday night and has spent Tuesday in front of a fan, not sure if the heat got to her or if it was something not agreeing with her stomach, today she is feeling much better and the medical team will be here within hours and then she will be in good hands. In any event she would covet your prayers. Pastor Gary, Scott and Dave have been doing some teaching to nearly 100 pastors here on the H2H campus and they have been having great feedback from all of them. Sarah, Lauren and Kenzie have managed to take update pictures of nearly every sponsor child parading them through the cafeteria like soldiers, making sure they all crack a smile for the camera. Lee, Barry, Nathan, Jerry and Mike have been soaked in sweat trying (without much success) to keep up with our Haitian construction team. It is simply amazing how the sun and heat zaps a persons energy when you are not used to it. The water cooler is a popular spot for us as we are constantly looking to keep hydrated. We hope to take a bunch of the kids down to tyno later on this afternoon and watch them go crazy in the ocean as we stand guard making sure they don't go to deep. We are slowly making headway on our new kitchen/guesthouse but as you might know, murphy's law is a big part of Haiti so we always have that to contend with.
Sarah, Scott, Nathan, Lee and Lauren going through worksheets the pastors worked on for the seminar.
Scott giving a lesson on knowing your spiritual gifts
Mackinley, everyone's favorite excuse to not work!
Tour of the town with an entourage of kids all hoping Barry will give them the ball
Hope you are all doing well, we miss you all and look forward to sharing our adventure with you when we get back.
Monday, June 14, 2010
Greetings from Haiti and the June 2010 missions team. We have all arrived safe and sound and are trying our best to shed our winter layers and quickly adapt to the EXTREME heat. Our trip here was not without a few hiccups along the way, a few being having to quickly think on our feet and replace all our bins in Fort Lauderdale with duffel bags and a missed connector flight in Houston by some of our team from Beamont. Needless to say the story of how these issues were resolved was nothing less than a miracle. We arrived Saturday afternoon after a hot dusty long drive from Port au Prince being welcomed by the kids and staff as we drove in the gates of the heart to heart compound. Saturday was a day of getting oriented with the surroundings and settling into the temporary guesthouse which Darcy and a team from Red Deer set up only 6 weeks ago. It is really an amazing structure which will serve its purpose well. We ended the day with a swim at tyno beach and a cold Tampico (haitian drink). Sunday we spent the day in church with everyone having a chance to try their best at public speaking and kids sneaking a nap on the laps of Sarah, Barry and Lauren. Monday we quickly jumped into doing tasks and of course playing with the kids who you just can't resist. I understand that an update letter was sent to you stating that we received our container, well.... We did take receipt of a container on Saturday but it was not the container we loaded with food and construction supplies back in Abbotsford. It was the second container of supplies sent to us from Red Deer. As Gary mentioned to the team on the first day of the trip..."missions trip =flexibility" and this is definitely the case. We will continue on as best we can and are not deterred in getting the Kitchen up and out of the ground this week. I am running out of time so I will do my best to post a bunch of pictures on the blog tomorrow with a few more stories and maybe a few testimonials.
Sunday, June 13, 2010
Setbacks and Celebrations
Things got off to a bit of a rocky start for the latest mission team headed to Haiti. The night before they left, news came in that the container filled with construction supplies was lost in the Bahamas somewhere. This came as a huge blow, as the whole purpose for 7 members of the team was to begin construction of our new kitchen, and without the container and all the equipment and tools in it, they weren't sure there was much purpose in going.
The team decided to leave anyways and took some money to buy whatever they could in Haiti. Needless to say there was some mad scrambling with banks and exchange agencies, and Albert (the leader of the team), having been to Haiti many times, wasn't optomistic they would be able to find much in Haiti for proper tools, but was hopeful the team could still get some things started.
The next setback came when they got to the Vancouver Airport and were told that strict baggage rules were being enforced travelling to Haiti, and Rubbermaid containers were not allowed to enter the country - they would only go as far as Ft. Lauderdale. Albert phoned our office, hoping Lia could find a place in Ft. Lauderdale that was open late, where they could buy hockey bags. The team was going to have to race out during their lay-over, buy the bags and transfer all the goods from the Rubbermaid containers into the hockey bags.
Things started to turn around for the team the next morning when our office received a call from Albert. On the flight from Dallas to Ft. Lauderdale, one of the team members sat beside a man and told him the whole luggage dilemma. The man happened to be the Vice President of a large sports store and promised to immediately send 13 hockey bags for free to their hotel!!!
This good news was followed by an even greater turn of events......the container lost in the Bahamas showed up at the H2H compound!! Seems like a total God thing to us! What an exciting start to the trip - can't wait to watch and see how the rest of the week unfolds!
The team decided to leave anyways and took some money to buy whatever they could in Haiti. Needless to say there was some mad scrambling with banks and exchange agencies, and Albert (the leader of the team), having been to Haiti many times, wasn't optomistic they would be able to find much in Haiti for proper tools, but was hopeful the team could still get some things started.
The next setback came when they got to the Vancouver Airport and were told that strict baggage rules were being enforced travelling to Haiti, and Rubbermaid containers were not allowed to enter the country - they would only go as far as Ft. Lauderdale. Albert phoned our office, hoping Lia could find a place in Ft. Lauderdale that was open late, where they could buy hockey bags. The team was going to have to race out during their lay-over, buy the bags and transfer all the goods from the Rubbermaid containers into the hockey bags.
Things started to turn around for the team the next morning when our office received a call from Albert. On the flight from Dallas to Ft. Lauderdale, one of the team members sat beside a man and told him the whole luggage dilemma. The man happened to be the Vice President of a large sports store and promised to immediately send 13 hockey bags for free to their hotel!!!
This good news was followed by an even greater turn of events......the container lost in the Bahamas showed up at the H2H compound!! Seems like a total God thing to us! What an exciting start to the trip - can't wait to watch and see how the rest of the week unfolds!
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Kenzie Watson, a recent university graduate, is in Haiti for a few months to help wherever needed. She is currently teaching ESL to many interested older teens and adults, taking care of children, and assisting Rebecca in administrative work. Over the next several weeks, she will be taking pictures of all the sponsored children and sending long-overdue updated photos to each of our sponsors. Manno (our Haitian sponsorship coordinator) and Rebecca are still working with the kids to get their earthquake experience on paper, and those letters will be coming to you with the next newsletter in early August.
If you would like to send a gift to your sponsor child, now is the time to do it! We have a large team leaving this Friday, June 11, and they are able to take gifts down as long as you can get them to our office by 5:00 pm Thursday July 10. The other option is to send a gift down in the next container which will be leaving the last week of June, which means the gift must be dropped off at either our office or Shawna's house by June 24. For either option, please put your gift in a large ziploc bag and clearly label it with the names of who it is to and from.
Office address for drop off: 34629A Delair Rd., Abbotsford
Shawna's address for mailing or drop off: 3325 Firhill Dr., Abbotsford, BC V2T 5L4
The group leaving this Friday is actually two teams with varying agendas. Pastors Gary Stevens and Scott MacKenzie from Vineyard Church in Abbotsford will be conducting a two day conference. Over 100 pastors from all over Haiti are registered to attend. They are also hoping to help coordinate, along with other team members, the distribution of food from one of our containers currently at the Port-au-Prince port. H2H board member Albert Wiens will be leading his team of 7 to kick-off the construction of our brand new kitchen/food depot/dining room/guest house. Team members will be uploading pictures and writing about their experience onto this blog while they are away - stay tuned!
The second group travelling down leaves on June 11 and is a medical team consisting of 4 doctors, several UBC Medical students, nurses and a dietician. They will be conducting many medical clinics in the grande Goave area, including check-ups for every one of our H2H orphans.
On the home front, our Abbotsford warehouse and the Pacific Community Church warehouse are still collecting food for our containers. A youth group from Arnold Community Church in Aldergrove has been bringing in donated food and helping us to sort, package and weigh in preparation for the container loading. If you would like to get involved in helping at the warehouse, please give Lia a call at our office: 604-850-0021.
If you would like to send a gift to your sponsor child, now is the time to do it! We have a large team leaving this Friday, June 11, and they are able to take gifts down as long as you can get them to our office by 5:00 pm Thursday July 10. The other option is to send a gift down in the next container which will be leaving the last week of June, which means the gift must be dropped off at either our office or Shawna's house by June 24. For either option, please put your gift in a large ziploc bag and clearly label it with the names of who it is to and from.
Office address for drop off: 34629A Delair Rd., Abbotsford
Shawna's address for mailing or drop off: 3325 Firhill Dr., Abbotsford, BC V2T 5L4
The group leaving this Friday is actually two teams with varying agendas. Pastors Gary Stevens and Scott MacKenzie from Vineyard Church in Abbotsford will be conducting a two day conference. Over 100 pastors from all over Haiti are registered to attend. They are also hoping to help coordinate, along with other team members, the distribution of food from one of our containers currently at the Port-au-Prince port. H2H board member Albert Wiens will be leading his team of 7 to kick-off the construction of our brand new kitchen/food depot/dining room/guest house. Team members will be uploading pictures and writing about their experience onto this blog while they are away - stay tuned!
The second group travelling down leaves on June 11 and is a medical team consisting of 4 doctors, several UBC Medical students, nurses and a dietician. They will be conducting many medical clinics in the grande Goave area, including check-ups for every one of our H2H orphans.
On the home front, our Abbotsford warehouse and the Pacific Community Church warehouse are still collecting food for our containers. A youth group from Arnold Community Church in Aldergrove has been bringing in donated food and helping us to sort, package and weigh in preparation for the container loading. If you would like to get involved in helping at the warehouse, please give Lia a call at our office: 604-850-0021.
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
April 19, 2010
The first construction team has arrived at Heart to Heart!
Darcy Lamoureau and a team of 6 other men and 1 woman, all from Alberta, raised $80,000 to fill two containers with tents, construction supplies, 9 tons of concrete, lumber, mixers and tools. One of these containers will be arriving tomorrow and the team will spend the next 11 days setting up two large structural tents, (24' x 32' each) complete with wooden floors. One tent will house a temporary kitchen and the other will be used as a guest house for mission teams arriving over the next several years. Each tent is fully containerd with power and fans and is guaranteed to last 20 years. The guest house will be divided in half for men and women, and later on, another team will construct a mezzanine inside the tent to accommodate couples travelling together. Darcy and his team also plan on building a carpentry shop to house all of the tools including table saws, so that future teams will have the necessary equipment to do their work.
Please check out Rebecca's blog for pictures of their progress over the next coupld of weeks: www.rebeccalarkin.blogspot.com
Darcy Lamoureau and a team of 6 other men and 1 woman, all from Alberta, raised $80,000 to fill two containers with tents, construction supplies, 9 tons of concrete, lumber, mixers and tools. One of these containers will be arriving tomorrow and the team will spend the next 11 days setting up two large structural tents, (24' x 32' each) complete with wooden floors. One tent will house a temporary kitchen and the other will be used as a guest house for mission teams arriving over the next several years. Each tent is fully containerd with power and fans and is guaranteed to last 20 years. The guest house will be divided in half for men and women, and later on, another team will construct a mezzanine inside the tent to accommodate couples travelling together. Darcy and his team also plan on building a carpentry shop to house all of the tools including table saws, so that future teams will have the necessary equipment to do their work.
Please check out Rebecca's blog for pictures of their progress over the next coupld of weeks: www.rebeccalarkin.blogspot.com
Sunday, April 18, 2010
April 15, 2010
Three months have passed since the devastating earthquake of Jan. 12, 2010. Haitians are slowly recovering from the traumatic experience and although things are not back to normal, new routines are being established. We are happy to report that all classes have begun again this week. Teachers are gathering their students under a large tent that is also used as church. We started the 2008 school year with 350 students, then in September of 2009, when our brand new school was completed, we jumped in enrolment to a little over 400, and we now have 442 children attending classes from Preschool 1 through to Grade 6. Approximately 90% of schools in Port-au-Prince and Grande Goave were damaged or destroyed in the earthquake, and school has not re-started for most of them. Although our school building is not yet serviceable, we are taking in as many new children as we can. Please check out pictures in Rebecca's blog of the temporary school and the children playing in the playground. (www.rebeccalarkin.blogspot.com)
After hundreds of man-hours and buckets of sweat, the final cement pieces of the school roof were knocked down yesterday, which means it is now safe to begin the construction of our new kitchen/dining room/food depot. The blue prints and floor plans have been finalized and the foundation work will begin in the next week.
Tiled washrooms complete with two shower stalls, 2 toilets and sinks have just been built directly behind the Children's Home to accommodate the community of people living on our compound in tents. Another separate washroom facility similar to the first, is under construction at the front of the Children's Home, to be used by the orphans. Competitions have begun to win the right to the first shower!
The fourth container of relief supplies was filled today at the Abbotsford warehouse - filled to capacity with a variety of food and a few construction supplies. It will leave tomorrow and arrive in Port-au-Prince in 34 days. Vineyard church plans to take a mision team to Haiti to meet the container when it arrrives and help coordinate the distribution of the food. By working with Pastor Luc's network of colleagues, the food gets through to some of the more remote, poorest areas in Haiti. We have enough food left in our warehouse to fill at least three more containers.
After hundreds of man-hours and buckets of sweat, the final cement pieces of the school roof were knocked down yesterday, which means it is now safe to begin the construction of our new kitchen/dining room/food depot. The blue prints and floor plans have been finalized and the foundation work will begin in the next week.
Tiled washrooms complete with two shower stalls, 2 toilets and sinks have just been built directly behind the Children's Home to accommodate the community of people living on our compound in tents. Another separate washroom facility similar to the first, is under construction at the front of the Children's Home, to be used by the orphans. Competitions have begun to win the right to the first shower!
The fourth container of relief supplies was filled today at the Abbotsford warehouse - filled to capacity with a variety of food and a few construction supplies. It will leave tomorrow and arrive in Port-au-Prince in 34 days. Vineyard church plans to take a mision team to Haiti to meet the container when it arrrives and help coordinate the distribution of the food. By working with Pastor Luc's network of colleagues, the food gets through to some of the more remote, poorest areas in Haiti. We have enough food left in our warehouse to fill at least three more containers.
March 25, 2010
In case you haven't already, please check out Rebecca's blog for near-daily updates on what is happening at Heart to Heart in Haiti (www.rebeccalarkin.blogspot.com). The first container of flour cleared customs and arrived in our compound earlier this week. Rebecca has pictures and more information on that good news. We have two more containers of oats in the DR right now. We are waiting for the contents to be bagged into family-sized portions and expect to be able to distribute the product shortly.
Our warehouses in Abbotsford and Cloverdale are still collecting food and rice to ship to Haiti. Although the pace has slowed considerably since the earthquake, goods are still arriving. We've recently received rice from schools in the Salmon Arm area and a generous donation from Rainbow Creek Elementary school in Alberta. Pacific Community Church (PCC) currently has 235 buckets filled with food and 1260 lbs. of rice ready for shipment to Haiti. PCC also received a U-Haul truck full of crutches, canes and walker casts that were dropped off by a young man from Richmond. He put ads in the paper and made flyers shortly after the earthquake because he felt called to ask for crutches. He didn't know how he was going to get them to Haiti, he just knew he had to start collecting them. Then he saw our chairman in a press conference on TV and got in touch with us.
Below is a link to a newspaper article in the Tricity News of a high school class making dresses for kids at H2H, or wherever the greatest need is.
http://www.bclocalnews.com/tri_city_maple_ridge/tricitynews/community/88856167.html
Repairs to the Children's Home are starting next week. Thankfully, there was no significant structural damage to our Home - we were, however, left with many cracks in the plaster which has lead to water leaking in when it rains. The washrooms on the second floor of the Children's Home should be installed and ready to use within the next couple of weeks. We are also beginning the construction of a stand-alone set of washrooms for the orphans in the Children's Home.
Almost all of the rubble from the top floor of our school has been removed. The construction crew is now building scaffolds to remove the remainder of the roof, which is a big job. To accommodate all the studetns with half the available classes, we are considering two start times (morning and afternoon). We have decided to rebuild our kitchen/dining room facility in a new location, closer to the school, which will make it much more convenient to serve both the kids in the Children's Home as well as the kids from the community at our school. Since this location is near our school, we cannot begin construction until the demolition of the roof is finished.
In case you haven't already, please check out Rebecca's blog for near-daily updates on what is happening at Heart to Heart in Haiti (www.rebeccalarkin.blogspot.com). The first container of flour cleared customs and arrived in our compound earlier this week. Rebecca has pictures and more information on that good news. We have two more containers of oats in the DR right now. We are waiting for the contents to be bagged into family-sized portions and expect to be able to distribute the product shortly.
Our warehouses in Abbotsford and Cloverdale are still collecting food and rice to ship to Haiti. Although the pace has slowed considerably since the earthquake, goods are still arriving. We've recently received rice from schools in the Salmon Arm area and a generous donation from Rainbow Creek Elementary school in Alberta. Pacific Community Church (PCC) currently has 235 buckets filled with food and 1260 lbs. of rice ready for shipment to Haiti. PCC also received a U-Haul truck full of crutches, canes and walker casts that were dropped off by a young man from Richmond. He put ads in the paper and made flyers shortly after the earthquake because he felt called to ask for crutches. He didn't know how he was going to get them to Haiti, he just knew he had to start collecting them. Then he saw our chairman in a press conference on TV and got in touch with us.
Below is a link to a newspaper article in the Tricity News of a high school class making dresses for kids at H2H, or wherever the greatest need is.
http://www.bclocalnews.com/tri_city_maple_ridge/tricitynews/community/88856167.html
Repairs to the Children's Home are starting next week. Thankfully, there was no significant structural damage to our Home - we were, however, left with many cracks in the plaster which has lead to water leaking in when it rains. The washrooms on the second floor of the Children's Home should be installed and ready to use within the next couple of weeks. We are also beginning the construction of a stand-alone set of washrooms for the orphans in the Children's Home.
Almost all of the rubble from the top floor of our school has been removed. The construction crew is now building scaffolds to remove the remainder of the roof, which is a big job. To accommodate all the studetns with half the available classes, we are considering two start times (morning and afternoon). We have decided to rebuild our kitchen/dining room facility in a new location, closer to the school, which will make it much more convenient to serve both the kids in the Children's Home as well as the kids from the community at our school. Since this location is near our school, we cannot begin construction until the demolition of the roof is finished.
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Great news....thanks to all of you and your network of friends and colleagues, Heart to Heart has raised $296,102.44. In addition to this, our partner in food and rice collection, Vineyard Church in Abbotsford, has raised $124,413.18, for a grand total of $420,515.62!!
We had another board meeting last night to discuss all the activity over the past two months, fundraisers and plans for how we can best use this money to feed and begin to rebuild H2H Haiti. Our initial target was to send down 10 containers of food. This project is well under way. Two containers have recently arrived in the Dominican Republic port of Santo Domingo awaiting transportation to Latose Dominicanos where the oats will be bagged and then transported to H2H within the next week. The third container left Miami on March 3 and should arrive in Port-au-Prince Haiti by March 10th where it will be transported to H2H and dispersed by Pastor Luc and a team of other pastors. Another container has just been packed in Red Deer Alberta with an assortment of building supplies, tools, tents and a small bobcat, which will be used to clear rubble away from our compound.
Thanks to the US Military, other non-profit organizations and Roger and Albert delivering truck loads of supplies from the Domincan Republic, we were able to secure enough food for one month for our children, staff and community members living on our compound. This bought us time to fill and get the containers moving from Canada. Now we've had time to do the math, crunch the numbers, research, compare, and negotiate to determine the most cost-effective way of supplying food to H2H and the Grande Goave area. Although it is expensive to ship containers of food (primarily rice) to Haitti, as long as our food is donated here in anada, it is still significantly cheaper to ship the food than purchase it in the DR. For fresh fruit, vegetables and dairy, we will still be purchasing locally or in the DR.
As the recovery of the earthquake disaster will take years, our desire is to continue to send two containers per month for the next year. This goal will of course depend on the continued success of our food collection programs in Abbotsford and Pacific Community Church in Cloverdale. In the meantime, we are drawing up plans for the reconstruction of our kitchen/food depot/dining area/guesthouse building as well as our school. We are in consultation with engineers as to the best way to rebuild with a reduced weight load on the second floor of our structures. Demolition of the top floor of the school has already begun. H2H teachers, staff, labourers, and older boys have begun breaking up and chipping away at the large slabs of concrete. We decided that doing this work by hand was the safest way to preserve the bottom floor of the school, and was a great way to keep people employed and feeling purposeful. This demolition work will likely take 4 - 6 weeks to complete, by which time, the bobccat in the container should be arriving to haul away larger chunks of concrete. Once the demolition and removal of rubble is concluded, reconstruction can begin.
The next major fundraiser coming up for H2H is a benefit concert at the Abbotsford Entertainment and Sports Centre on Saturday, March 20 from 1 pm - 10 pm. There will be performances by Greg Neufeld, Karen Lee Batten, the Fab Fourever (Ultimate Beatles Tribute Band), Damian Marshall and many more artists! Tickets cost $25 - $50 and are available throu gh AESC by visiting : www.abbotsfordcentre.ca or calling: 1-866-977-2372. H2H will receive 50% of all ticket sales, and the other half will go to MCC, so please come out and enjoy the show. It runs for 9 hours, and is set up so that you can come and go, and partake in the music, silent auction and Ten Thousand Villages.
Thank you all so much for your hard work and generosity in helping us raise such a signficant amount of money for H2H Haiti. Your continued involvement will make all the difference in rebuilding Heart to Heart to its original or better form.
We had another board meeting last night to discuss all the activity over the past two months, fundraisers and plans for how we can best use this money to feed and begin to rebuild H2H Haiti. Our initial target was to send down 10 containers of food. This project is well under way. Two containers have recently arrived in the Dominican Republic port of Santo Domingo awaiting transportation to Latose Dominicanos where the oats will be bagged and then transported to H2H within the next week. The third container left Miami on March 3 and should arrive in Port-au-Prince Haiti by March 10th where it will be transported to H2H and dispersed by Pastor Luc and a team of other pastors. Another container has just been packed in Red Deer Alberta with an assortment of building supplies, tools, tents and a small bobcat, which will be used to clear rubble away from our compound.
Thanks to the US Military, other non-profit organizations and Roger and Albert delivering truck loads of supplies from the Domincan Republic, we were able to secure enough food for one month for our children, staff and community members living on our compound. This bought us time to fill and get the containers moving from Canada. Now we've had time to do the math, crunch the numbers, research, compare, and negotiate to determine the most cost-effective way of supplying food to H2H and the Grande Goave area. Although it is expensive to ship containers of food (primarily rice) to Haitti, as long as our food is donated here in anada, it is still significantly cheaper to ship the food than purchase it in the DR. For fresh fruit, vegetables and dairy, we will still be purchasing locally or in the DR.
As the recovery of the earthquake disaster will take years, our desire is to continue to send two containers per month for the next year. This goal will of course depend on the continued success of our food collection programs in Abbotsford and Pacific Community Church in Cloverdale. In the meantime, we are drawing up plans for the reconstruction of our kitchen/food depot/dining area/guesthouse building as well as our school. We are in consultation with engineers as to the best way to rebuild with a reduced weight load on the second floor of our structures. Demolition of the top floor of the school has already begun. H2H teachers, staff, labourers, and older boys have begun breaking up and chipping away at the large slabs of concrete. We decided that doing this work by hand was the safest way to preserve the bottom floor of the school, and was a great way to keep people employed and feeling purposeful. This demolition work will likely take 4 - 6 weeks to complete, by which time, the bobccat in the container should be arriving to haul away larger chunks of concrete. Once the demolition and removal of rubble is concluded, reconstruction can begin.
The next major fundraiser coming up for H2H is a benefit concert at the Abbotsford Entertainment and Sports Centre on Saturday, March 20 from 1 pm - 10 pm. There will be performances by Greg Neufeld, Karen Lee Batten, the Fab Fourever (Ultimate Beatles Tribute Band), Damian Marshall and many more artists! Tickets cost $25 - $50 and are available throu gh AESC by visiting : www.abbotsfordcentre.ca or calling: 1-866-977-2372. H2H will receive 50% of all ticket sales, and the other half will go to MCC, so please come out and enjoy the show. It runs for 9 hours, and is set up so that you can come and go, and partake in the music, silent auction and Ten Thousand Villages.
Thank you all so much for your hard work and generosity in helping us raise such a signficant amount of money for H2H Haiti. Your continued involvement will make all the difference in rebuilding Heart to Heart to its original or better form.
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