Haitian American Ministries





	Stay current about our 2005 humanitarian trip to Haiti by reading our Online Blog. Read the Houston Chronicle article about the work we are doing in Haiti.
	Join NOW and become a member of HAM! You can also sign up to become a volunteer! It is truly a rewarding experience!


	1 Make your commitment. Send in your contribution to Haitian-American Ministries today. Click here to make an online contribution to HAM.

	2 Speak with your church and community organizations. Start collecting material and monetary donations for a relief aid effort in your city today.

	3 Check with family and friends, fraternities, sororities, and co-workers and ask them to make a contribution and/or take up a collection.

	4 Circulate information about HAM: · in general · the relief aid effort, “A Day of Healing: Haiti & The Community” · HAM’s Virtual Classroom Project

	5 Add HAM to your personal email list or other lists of businesses and/or people who want to play a part in helping Haiti.

	Please click here to make an online donation to HAM.


	Earlier this year stories of Haiti and her troubled political situation flooded American media. News reports spoke of civil unrest, student protests, and public demonstrations. It was not uncommon to hear of murders and assassination attempts. Then, one morning, word that the United States had facilitated President Jean Bertrand Aristide in leaving the country. As the story unfolded, allegations of kidnapping against the United States began to surface. Now, in America, the public is experiencing a white-out in the media regarding news about Haiti. Let us not forget, that while politicians and scholars, statesmen and lobbyists representing folk with money decide what should be done about Haiti, children are starving and people are dying in Haiti -- less than two hours away by plane from our shores – The United States of America!



	Your participation in this relief effort is important—for we, through our giving, pass on vital sustenance to a country struggling to become self-sufficient and self-governing. Your donations feed, clothe, educate, and help keep healthy the population of young people who will one day run the country of Haiti—if given half a chance. Your participation ensures that when Haiti makes history again, on this their 200th anniversary, you’ve had a hand in writing a positive chapter for the history books. In 1804 Haiti gained freedom from the physical shackles and chains of chattel slavery, thereby becoming the first black free republic in the Western Hemisphere. Their valiant struggle freed thousands of others, spreading from Latin America and throughout the United States… And they have been punished by major world powers ever since for taking back their human right to be free. In 2004, with your help, Haiti, the United States, and Friends of Haiti can begin the process of breaking the limitations of shackles yet again, this time--shackles of the mind. Endowing the world with a living legacy for those seeking true freedom and liberation. There is a blessing and a healing for all of us involved in this process. Thank you for the outpouring of support from communities across the country and abroad—and a special thank you to the people of Houston, Texas. Let us move on to make “A Day of Healing: Haiti & The Community” just that. Let us all share in the blessing of the healing.