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Haiti Mission Trip 2012

Feb. 6-13 2012 ~ June 25-July 2 2012 - Oct 22-29 2012

Saturday, November 21, 2009 - THE WOUNDS OF HAITI by Shelly

Airfare, lodging, food, water, transportation & guides.

For more information contact Shelly Mannella for trip application through our mission contact form or contact mbmannella@comcast.net

Fill out application with $100 non-refundable deposit.

For more information please read the Healing Haiti Haiti Mission Trip Handbook and mission blog.

Need to attend Pre-Trip Team Meeting

For the plane ride get a copy of Reiser's Ramblings to prepare your spirit.

CTN News Jan 14 2011 - Haiti One Year Later

Interview with Shelly

Since the quake struck Reiser Relief has delivered food and water, along with helping to build schools and housing in Haiti. Their efforts continue to be on-going and you can help.

Reiser Relief Inc. is a nonprofit 501(c)3 corporation founded by Father Bernard Reiser who has been involved with Haiti outreach programs for over 13 years. Run entirely by volunteers, Reiser Relief is based in Coon Rapids, Minnesota. The major goal of its mission is to help the impoverished people of the Caribbean country of Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere.

The social and environmental problems are the greatest challenges the people of Haiti are facing today. In the midst of these problems, we are compelled to provide the essential services to aid in day-to-day survival. The services Reiser Relief provides include: fresh water, food centers, education, and eldercare facilities. Many outreach projects are in or near Cité Soleil; the suburb of the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince. Reiser Relief provides assistance to Haiti focused on the basic necessities of life: Food, Water, Education, and Building Facilities.

With your help, Reiser Relief can continue to save the lives of these extremely impoverished people! We live among abundance, the Haitians live in extreme poverty. They await your generous response and we pray for God’s abundant blessings upon you. With deep gratitude, we thank you for helping us to "Keep the Wheel Turning!" Together, we make a difference in touching the lives of thousands of people! Donation Options

Reiser Relief Inc. Haiti Projects
Food, Water, Education, Building

Reiser Relief Inc. was formed by Father Bernard Reiser, a Catholic priest who has devoted his life to serving the many needs of others. Since its beginning, Reiser Relief has helped to bestow new hope for many hundreds of God's needy people through the generosity of a great number of people.

Shipments of Food Packets
Feeding the Hungry in Haiti

Reiser Relief sends cargo shipping containers filled with meal packets. Transportation cost per container is around $10,000. These food packets are assembled by volunteers in the U.S. and donated by the nonprofit organization Feed My Starving Children. For many children, the daily meal at school is the only one they will receive. This food is distributed in various parts of Haiti: Lespinasse, Cité Soleil, Leogonne, Jacmel, and Titanyen.

Fresh Water Delivery Truck
Cité Soleil & Port-Au-Prince, Haiti

Yearly delivery of over 4 million gallons of clean water to the poor in the slum of Cité Soleil. Delivering four 3,500 gallon loads of water, 6 days a week, 52 weeks per year to thousands of people. That is the equivalent of 800,000 five gallon buckets of water each year. Funds support local Haiti driver salaries, fuel and maintenance.

Terre Promise Primary School
Cite Soleil, Haiti

Funds are for teachers salaries so that school fees can be low enough to allow even the poorest families to send their children to school. We have also constructed classrooms, built school benches and given assistance for school uniforms, school and medical supplies, food and clean water. 400+ children attend school.

Reiser Heights Primary School
Lespinasse, Haiti

Funds are for teachers salaries so that school fees can be low enough to allow even the poorest families to send their children to school. We have also constructed classrooms, built school benches and given assistance for school uniforms, school and medical supplies, food and clean water. 300+ children attend school.

Grace Village
Titanyen, Haiti

Help build a village from the ground up. Reiser Relief assisted with Healing Haiti in purchasing 16 acres of land to build Grace Village. The estimated construction cost is $236,500 for the first building phase to include two orphanage dormitories, a feeding center, a 21,000 gallon cistern, water tower and a septic tank. The orphanage is for handicapped, deaf, abandoned, and orphaned children living in severe poverty.

Help Haiti Earthquake Victims
Port-au-Prince, Haiti

You can provide immediate relief to children impacted by the earthquake in Haiti. Help provide clean water to a families living in tent cities, orphanages, clinics, and schools. Help feed a families with food such as rice, beans, canned meat and MannaPacks. Help provide basic medical supplies. Help provide critical life items like temporary shelter, blankets and clothing. Funds will support both short-term relief and long-term recovery efforts in Haiti.

Reiser’s Ramblings Paperback Book
Author: Fr. Bernard Reiser

Reiser’s Ramblings is a collection of Fr. Bernard Reiser’s best columns written over the past three decades. Be inspired all over again as you read Father’s take on everyday topics such as family, kindness, gratitude, prayer, helping others, and staying focused on what’s important in life. All profits from book sales will go to help the children of Haiti through Reiser’s Relief Inc.

Haiti Prayer
Author: Fr. Bernard Reiser

"He will wipe away all tears from their eyes;
there will be no more death, no more mourning or sadness. The world of the past has gone."
(Revelation 21:4)

Almighty Father in heaven, surround the people of Haiti with Thy Divine Providence.

Strengthen them in their trials, provide for their needs. May they join their sufferings to those of Jesus, God’s Son, as they walk through the rubble of the January earthquake.

May they realize that they are accompanying
Jesus on the road to crucifixion.

May the Joys of Easter unfold in their hearts, and encourage them to persevere to heaven’s kingdom. Amen

"Whatever you did for one of the least of
these brothers of mine, you did for me"

Donate to Reiser Relief to Help the people in Haiti

Information About Haiti

Population - 9 Million

Only 90 minutes from Florida by plane

Poorest country in the western hemisphere

80% live in poverty making less than $2 a day

50% of the people unable to read or write

50% of the children attend school & teachers salaries are $70 per month

1 in 8 children die before age 5 from unclean water

Can you imagine living with no clean water, no food, no electricity, no sewer system.

The poor children of Haiti are sometimes fed dirt cookies, made of dirt and oil, then baked in the sun because their family cannot afford food

They eat the dirt cookies so their stomachs will have something inside it – or they can’t sleep at night because they are so hungry

Cite Soleil a densely populated slum located in Port-au-Prince, the Capitol of Haiti and 300,000 residents are living in extreme poverty in 9 square miles. No sewers, no stores, no electricity or running water.

Thank You for your continuous generosity! With deep gratitude, we thank you for helping us support those in Haiti. Together, we make a difference in touching the lives of thousands of people!
God Bless You All

Start Your Own Haiti Fundraisers

YOU Can Make A Difference….You can be the difference for life; in the lives of the poor in Haiti

Wristbands Donations

Hold a Haiti Raffles

Peddle Your Pennies for Haiti. What's in Your Pocket? Got a few extra Abraham Lincolns?

Haitian Benefit Car Wash

Bake Sales, Chili feeds, Pancake Breakfasts, Spaghetti Suppers, Sloppy Joes, Hot Dogs for Haiti.

Create a simple fundraising webpage hosted on Razoo.com giving platform supporting Reiser Relief's efforts in Haiti. - Razoo handles the credit card donations & pays the credit card fees.

Darts or Pool competition fundraiser to provide humanitarian aid for the people of Haiti.

Campus Ministry Haiti Relief Efforts

Pig Roast Party Puts help in to the Hands of Haiti.