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Support the emergency aid action “children’s village Bon Repos in Haiti”

This action is finished. The total amount collected is: € 250.211,00. Thank you to all who donated and helped the people in Haiti!

The Heart for Children foundation together with the TV programme Hour of Power have joined forces to raise funds for the children’s village Bon Repos. Since the start of the action in the Hour of Power broadcast on Sunday January 17, 2010, the response has been overwhelming and heartwarming.

We thank all our donors who contributed to the success of this action. The people in Haiti deserve our support, care and attention, and if we can do this together with you, we will be much obliged.

What will happen with your donation?
Through our website and news letters we will inform you what your money will be spent on. And also in the Hour of Power broadcasts we will keep you up-to-date about our activities.

Report Johan Smoorenburg “Children’s village Bon Repos in Haiti”

 

The total amount collected is: € 250.211,00

“Tears were running down our cheeks
when we found one of the children who
was missing. After 1 1/2 days he was
found alive under the debris.”

 

The new lives of hundreds of children in Haiti literally lie in ruins. A life’s work of 30 years has been destroyed almost completely.

Over the last years hundreds of underprivileged children have received shelter in the children’s village Bon Repos. These children were living in the streets, because they are orphans. Vulnerable, helpless, forgotten. In the village built by Johan and Wilcie Smoorenburg, these children were given new hope and a new future. The project was growing and blooming until it was hit by one of the most horrible disasters the country ever knew.

“It’s a miracle no one was killed in the village, but the situation is disastrous”, says Johan Smoorenburg. “There were already too many orphans, but because of the earthquake their number only has increased”. Some 450 children, elderly people and staff were living in the village. In the meantime hundreds of orphans, homeless and injured people from outside the village have been taken care of.

“We work twenty hours a day, we do what we can. We provide clean water and food, but gradually our supplies are running out. On top of that we fear to be plundered, because the wall around the village has completely collapsed. The wall guaranteed the safety of our children.””

The children of Haiti desperately need your help. Please donate your contribution today. We have a heart for children. May we address yours?

Description of the project

Children’s village Bon Repos
With this action we support the life’s work of Johan Smoorenburg. Johan is running the children’s village Bon Repos near Port au Prince. There are houses, schools and medical care for children and elderly people. Also Bon Repos has been severely hit by the disaster. The damage is estimated at one and a half million Swiss Francs. Still, they try to give shelter to those who survived the catastrophe.

Size of the site is 4 hectares (excluding the recently purchased land for a new boys home).

 

The site is accommodating a.o. :

• the children’s village with uit 11 appartments;
• a nursery, the main building including a central kitchen, a little church, an infirmary, a bakery, a training centre, a playground including sports facilities, a kitchen garden and a well including pump and aggregate.

Organizations that support our action

The partner organizations and business relations mentioned below contributed to the success of this action:

 

 

 

ChildRight
ChildRight is an organization for the defence of children(‘s rights) world wide.
ChildRight donors contributed: € 25.000,-.

 

 

 

Graficiënt Printmedia, Almere, The Netherlands
To support this action a mailing was sent to the complete list of Heart for Children followers.
Graficient Printmedia contributed by delivering the printed matter against cost price.

 

 

 

Vogelaar Distributors, IJsselstein, The Netherlands
Vogelaar contributed by distributing the mailing against a considerably reduced price.

 

 

 

 

 

The Hour of Power Corporate Eagles Club
The Corporate Eagles Club contributed with a financial donation to cover the mailing costs.