10 reasons to engage with Apparent Project in Haiti.

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Apparent project has helped create jobs for 250 artisans...

                                                       this is no SMALL thing in a place like Haiti!

Children remain with their parents, are being nourished & sent to school by them, and are no longer "at risk" for abandonment.

The others speak for themselves...

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These are only 9 out of 250 stories...

When you consider the outcomes just among these few...there are 28 children who are NOT having to grow up with out their parents in one of the many overflowing and under-supported Haitian orphanages.

Multiply that times the life stories of the other 241 current employees of Papillion Enterprises and you can see why we are SO excited about the work that Apparent Project is committed to.

We are blessed to be able to use the talents that God has given us to help CREATE additional businesses & jobs for the parents of at-risk children and to HELP keep these SAME moms (and dads) as well as others in the community ALIVE through safe childbirth and good medical care! 

Join us in watching God's work continue to FRACTURE the cycle of poverty in Haiti!

Consider partnering in ministry with us and Apparent Project in 2014!

GIVE

Volunteer

Jewelry Parties

Cereal Box Donations

Maternity Care Supplies

Business Development Support

PRAY

Rice farmers & orphan care

An unplowed field produces food for the poor,                                                                                    but injustice sweeps it away.  Psalm 13:23

This week Emma and I had a chance to go visit a rice farmer's cooperative about 1.5 hours outside of Port au Prince. Located out near an area called Thomazeau, it looks a lot like the rice fields and farms in the valley surrounding Sacramento, California where I grew up. Here's a farmer tending his field of carrots.

The cooperative is housed in a small concrete building with an office, and a bigger room which houses the 2 rice mills. There is a large concrete pad outside for drying the rice and a larger mound of old rice hulls.

When we visited, there was a large group of local women who brought their harvested rice on the backs of donkeys to dry it out and to run it through the mill. These women represent local farming families that plant a total of 2,000 acres of rice each year. Here is a dry field ready for flooding and planting.

The cooperative provides a tractor, expertise, and the drying and milling facility so they can prepare their rice for their own use or to sell in the local markets. The cooperative takes 25% of the rice as payment for their services and sells it to local food programs and resellers.

We are looking at possibly purchasing this local rice for our food distribution program. This particular area is an up and coming rice farming location, not in the part of Haiti that is typically known for growing rice. They are in need of more markets to sell their rice in, so that they can continue to grow their farms and provide stable income for these local families.

rice mill from Ted Barlow on Vimeo. 

So what does this have to do with orphan care? This rice will be distributed and resold in Port au Prince, providing "living wage" jobs for parents and other caregivers in our communities. These individuals represent families that are at risk for having to give up their children if they can't earn enough to take care of them. Their children could end up in local orphanages, where more than 80% of the kids are "economic orphans", children who were given up to the orphanage because their families couldn't provide for them. This rice will be an important part of our micro-finance and small business programs that will help prevent these kids from being abandoned in orphanages. 

Our goal is to tackle the orphan care problem here in Haiti at the source: and this new farm-to-table project aims to do that by creating opportunities, resources and jobs for vulnerable families. 

Ted

Moms & Midwives

As many of you know, Maternal Care and Midwifery are precious needs and something that I (Rebecca) am very passionate about here in Haiti. 

Last fall, with the help of World Orphans & Carol Denny of Global Health Training, we hosted 65 Haitian women for a Safe Birth training conference. It was a great success, though just a scratch on the surface of the need for fully equipped and trained midwives here in Haiti. 

Mothers die in childbirth on a daily basis here.

Children become orphaned.

Babies are high risk.

I'm looking forward to seeing what God has for me in the coming months and years, to help promote midwife training and develop care models for the women of this country.

Their lives are so VALUABLE and yet they are not valued!

Here are some of the amazing ministries that are working their hardest to provide care in this realm.

With Mother's Day coming - please consider supporting their endeavors on behalf of your own Mom!