Category Archives: Haiti Travels

Deacon Ben Johnston reports: Another exciting chapter of progress in Boucan Care, Haiti

By Caitlin Stevens | Published: December 21, 2011

Each trip ends up having several purposes. The primary purpose of this trip was to inspect the construction for the new high school that is being built by the Xinergy Corporation in Knoxville. David Hutchins, the architect, and I did inspect the 8 room classroom building and the composting latrine. The construction is way ahead of [...]

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The Story of a Young Professor at the College St. Michel

By Caitlin Stevens | Published: November 1, 2011

Deacon Ben Johnston and our architect David Hutchins visited the construction of the secondary school in October and saw the second floor being poured(see the newsletter for more). A lot of my recent updates have concentrated on the building and its construction but this update focuses on the students and the teachers that the [...]

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Ground BREAKING News!

By Caitlin Stevens | Published: October 3, 2011

I am pleased to announce that the building of the new secondary school has begun! A team just went to Haiti from 9/12-9/15 for the ground breaking and came back with a full report and some wonderful pictures that I would like to pass along to you. Brief History: After the HOP primary school had [...]

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Josh’s Story: A First-Time Haiti Experience

By admin | Published: April 20, 2010

My name is Josh Ault. For the past 5 months, I have been a reporter for WATE-TV. When the earthquake hit Haiti in January it really touched me how many people in Knoxville were helping the people there (even before the earthquake hit). That is when I first meet people with the Haiti Outreach Program, [...]

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Email from HOP Medical Team Member currently in Port-au-Prince

By Jennifer | Published: February 6, 2010

> Hi honey. > Things are coming together nicely > Our group is taking over at a hospital where the French are vacating. It is downtown and they need all our surgeons > The name of the hospital is Sacred Heart. > I and Elise opened a clinic today at the epicenter of the earthquake [...]

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So what IS going on???

By Jennifer | Published: February 3, 2010

The Haiti Outreach Program, Who are they? What do they do? How can I become involved? These questions are asked each day through our website www.givehaitihope.org, so I will do my best to fill you in. Who are they? – The members of the Haiti Outreach Program are people just like you. We have crazy [...]