Haiti Hurricane Update: Homes in Belot

Here's an update. I've listed in red ones that still need sponsors and in blue ones that either have been sponsored or we have sponsors working on raising money for their homes. Please keep those groups or organizations in prayer as well. Most have said they hope to raise funds specific and then if they raise additional, we can buy food or other material with any additional funds that come through. These are only the first 12 we have assessed. Ron and a small scouting group are hiking into Nouvelle Terrain tomorrow (prayerfully). It is an overnight hike and internet is not so great there. As soon as I hear anything I will let people know. We'll have assessment of costs for that area as well. That area is much more difficult to access and apparently has much more destruction, so the costs in that area will be higher. Please pray for safety for the group and miraculous provisions.

Depending on safety, I will then hike in with part of the medical team after they arrive on Thursday. Getting supplies in there will be tough. It's difficult to even get a donkey to that location. I literally have young and in shape team members that have hiked there with me before that are in tears on the hike. It's not for the faint of heart. The ground is unsteady and you walk down a ridge line. We have people packing their wives into medical clinic because they are paralyzed. We ask them what happened and they say they fell off the mountain. Prayers for safety is greatly appreciated!

Operation Blessing has been AMAZING and Ron went and got a load of wood today from them. We hope to use this for some of the main structures and then any of the homes that we may come up short on in the estimates.  We do of course need funds for wages to hire some people to build and we'll need some funds to pack in the material, so any donations outside of these specific homes is also greatly appreciated!

Here's the list of homes:

Vierjal Salamon's home in Belot who has one boy and one girl. Cost for material estimate: $300. They have a group of co-workers from Minnesota with friends and family in other states trying to raise money to restore their home. Thank you so much!!

Lorina Charles has three boys and one girl. Cost for material estimate is $1,800. They have a church in Washington working on raising funds for their home. Thank you!!

Rosemarie Serpahin that has two boys and one girl. Cost estimate is: $2,000.00 for supplies. The home is completely destroyed. This is one of our first priorities. She is a leader in the church and is in desperate circumstances for her family. -Still in need of a sponsor

Gladise Guevil who has three boys and one girl. Cost estimate for repairs: $400. They have a group of co-workers from Minnesota with friends and family in other states trying to raise money to restore their home.

Jislene Norvius who has three girls. Cost estimate for repairs: $300. Still in need of a sponsor!

Delira Saintè who has one boy and four girls. Cost estimate for repairs: $200. Still in need of a sponsor!

Oramiz Sainte who has one boy and four girls. Cost estimate for repairs: $1,000. They have a group of musicians trying to raise money for their home and also trying to raise money for food for the village. Thank you!

Jilis Fabre who has six boys and one girl. Cost estimate for repairs: $500. They have the Hundley's in Oregon that has already provided funds for their home. Thank you Sharon! They have also raised additional funds for food and relief supplies.

Viegue Augustin who has six boys and one girl. Cost estimate for repairs: $100. - Still in need of a sponsor.

Orinel Francois who has three girls and two boys. Cost estimate for repairs: $350. They have a group of musicians in Nashville working on raising funds to repair their home as well as provide rice and beans for the village. Thank you!!

Jake Joseph who has five boys and one girl. Cost estimate for repairs $1100. -Still in need of a sponsor

Luisa Telimond who has one boy and one girl. Cost estimate for repairs: $2,500. -Still in need of a sponsor

School administration roof. Cost estimate for repairs: $450. -Still in need of a sponsor


If you or you work or church group or a group of friends would like to "sponsor" a specific home or food, medical, educational, etc, please let me know. We will then take them off the list and move onto the next homes that we have not assessed yet. I'll hopefully have a list of additional needs soon.

Thank you so much for the incredible love and support we are receiving. Donations can be made to The Chance to Dream and mailed to Sheppard Family, 160 NW Merle Drive, Hillsboro OR 97124. Please write Haiti relief in memo line and put a post it note with any specifics. If you are sponsoring a certain home, please send me a message asap so that we get them off the list and don't have multiple people working on sponsoring the same home. You can also visit our website, which I "hope" is back up and running: www.thechancetodream.com

We had some technical difficulties with the website donation page. There is an urgency to getting donations, but as long as we know the checks are coming, we can take them off the list for now and work on the next situation. Checks should only take a couple of days to clear. We have specific warehouses here that should take the travel visa and that way we don't have the risk of sending in money and also transfer fees. This way 100% of your donation can directly go to the projects specified.

Mesi anpil. Merci beaucout! Thank you very much! ~Linda and family