Hands Together

Activity-Description

Proj. cost

Expended YTD

Charity Jezu (Emergency Charity aid packages)

Special charity aid packages to staff and student families based on need for housing and immediate support. This will help people solve their immediate shelter and human needs problems and inject income into the local economy.

• Continue salaries to all P-au-P staff through June 30. Wherever possible, we will plug staff into work projects and school operations.

$165,000

$133,000

• Provide staff aid packages to all HT P-au-P staff (allocate a $300 grant for housing, food and human needs expenditures.) Each recipient must complete aid agreement. Approx 210 workers

$63,000

$76,000

• Student family aid packages (identify families needing housing, medical, and basic needs assistance. Channel cash, food and rebuilding services to them via school directors. Target those 200 families).

$100,000

$14,000

• Special Staff Grants – help inner circle staff and others with funds for land purchase – Seeking to create more stability among our key staff. 20 grants -

$100,000

$33,000

• Community aid packages –identify families in Delmas and Cite Soleil needing emergency aid for housing and food.

$100,000

$9,000

• Aid to teachers and students who died – $10,000 support to each household. Give surviving children funding for schooling thru H.S.

$60,000

$5,000

School Rebuilding and Repair

Secured all campuses and opened 3 major schools – elementary, middle school and high school. Created a plan with help from U.S. Engineers from to safely rehab all buildings. The demolition, new construction and repair work give teams of local residents and builders much needed employment.

• St. Franswa H.S. Campus – fix wall, fix north and west buildings, put up new small kitchen, repair old kitchen, repair all cracks and breaks, install solar, supply computers, outfit classrooms.
• Purchase more land adjacent to H.S. for expansion

$362,479

$110,000

$150,000

 $134,000

$0

• St. Anne – fix wall, build new 7 classrooms, create kitchen, storage rooms, fix principal’s office, Grant from Jones Day Foundation applied here.
• Additional repairs, materials, solar, field repair, latrines, water system

$104,917

$225,000

$154,399

• St. Margaret – fix wall, build 12 temporary classrooms, create kitchen- reinforce temp classrooms, materials, solar, latrines, install playground, and water systems.

$124,000

$65,662

• St. Joseph – Build 5 temporary classrooms, fix south building, repair wall – add latrines, equipment, water sys.

$70,820

$17,000

• Purchase temporary portable Norway Stork shelters – ship to Haiti

$76,000

$66,000

• Holy Family – rebuild walls, fix grounds, replace homes damaged by fallen walls, put in latrines, water sys
• St Veronica – Tear up all 1^st floor cement and redo floors, repair all buildings, outfit with solar and computers

$27,000

$65,000

$13,000

$23,000

• Equipment and supplies to run the school – computers, desks, books, generators, kitchen equipment, class room supplies, etc.

$325,000

$107,000

• St. Jane Chantal – repair destroyed school for classes and mobile clinic outreach – Grant Award from Digicel Corp to complete project.

$97,000

$97,000

Ongoing Nutrition Outreach

We will conduct elderly feeding programs and temporary school/community feeding from March 15 - July 30.

• Feed 1,200 elderly daily at 3 main locations and provide a dry food package on Fridays.

$110,000

$72,000

• School Feeding and classes – from March 15 – July 30^th.

$210,000

$128,000

• Elderly outreach and food distribution at Delmas – conduct 2 per month.

$45,000

$15,000

• Food aid to Missionary Sisters and Brothers of Charity and Oblates – 2 times to each one- at $16,500 each

$99,000

$97,000

• Food aid to tent cities – Delamas, Leogone, Cite Soleil- food  from BND

$45,000

$45,000

Rebuilding our Logistics/HQ base and residence

Constructed new office base and will build a new residence/HQ. New office includes sleeping quarters for two, 5 offices, conference room, reception, harmacy, storage containers, communications & generator, a shower/toilet.  Our residence will contain kitchen, dining area, a conference room, 3 dormitories that can house 20 oblates and quarters for 10 volunteers, bathrooms, a chapel, and private living area for Fr. Tom and 3 guest rooms.

• Construct our office base
• Install Solar

$85,000

$65,000

$72,000

$0

• Demolition, build residences, garage, meeting space, etc.

$230,000

$14,000

• Purchased adjacent land on Delmas for expanded volunteer center, garage and depot.

$110,000

$126,000

Housing and work projects

People need shelter and work. We will create teams of workers and provide simple housing those in most need. When possible, we will create work teams to help with demolition and rebuilding of our buildings.

• Create 50 simple shelters for people in Cite Soleil and our inner staff.

$250,000

$0

• Create work teams and incomes for 150 people for 3 months.

$90,000

$9,000

Medical Clinic Outreach

We run daily mobile clinics at each campus location – serving 500 people per day. Instead of rebuilding the large cement clinic in Boston – thereby land locking us and leaving us at the mercy of the population, we will purchase a mobile clinic with 3 rooms that can travel to any site – both in PAP and Gonaives. 

• Purchase Mobile Medical bus – and outfit it for portable clinics -  
• Shipping costs
• Digital X-ray machine install

$252,000

$7,000

$90,000

$252,000

$7,000

$0

Water well drilling

We will use our well drilling machines to install wells in areas hardest hit by the earthquake.  – Working with the local Church, we will identify parishes, schools and other areas that could be water sources for the populations living in tent cities.

• Drill 25 wells and install hand pumps

$100,000

$17,000

Equipment and Vehicles

We need major repairs on 2 jeeps,1 bus, 1 transport truck and we must purchase a dump truck and another flatbed transport vehicle to help us with demolition and rebuilding.

• Mac Dumb Truck used -

$20,000

$20,000

• Isuzu Box truck

$12,000

$11,000

• Repairs and Maintenance

$20,000

 $8,000

Ongoing Logistical and Operational support

During the next six months we will need to fund travel to and from Haiti, internet and phone communications, funds to ship and transport supplies and other operational expenditures.

• Office operations until July 30 – (food ,water, power, supplies)

$20,000

$31,000

• Travel (volunteers, engineers,Fr. Tom, site and management visits)

$10,000

$13,000

• Shipping and storage- via Droompac

$25,000

$15,000

Special Projects

HT can serve as a partner and conduit for groups that share our mission and need special assistance. These projects would not be run by HT, but we would help fund construction, or provide resources.

• Build School at Wharf Jeremie – Italian nun, Sr. Marcela, been working there for 8 years and would help oversee the school.

$175,000

$9,000

• Aid 3 Carrefour schools feeding support – HT purchase and deliver food for daily school meals – approx 1200 children.

$55,000

$0