who's who?

who's who at Leve House??

We now have four, well make that four and a half, people living at the Leve Project house in Cayes Jacmel.

Francois Jean-Louis has been working with Leve Project since October, though he has been a trusted friend for much longer! He is our right-hand man on the ground in Haiti. He moved into the Leve House in May and started with some basic clean-up of the house and yard. Francois is our Haitian manager of Leve Project and does everything from run errands and yard work to helping with budgeting and planning.

The "half" that now lives with us is his 3 year old daughter, Paskalitha. She lived with her mother in Port au Prince, however after the flooding, their living conditions were not good. Shortly after the flooding problems, her mother was admitted to the hospital and couldn't care for Paskalitha, so Francois brought her here to stay with us.

Megan Haug is a co-founder and director of Leve Project. She previously lived in Haiti, working with different ministries, and moved back to serve as the on-site manager for Leve Project on June 1st. Her main focus right now is establishing a budget, financial reports, meeting people and establishing relationships in the community, communicating with & updating the Board of Directors in the states, as well as other administrative duties.

Nicole Joseph and Yonel SeraPhin joined us at Leve house on June 11th.

Nicole is currently pretty much everything house care related. She cooks us a meal of rice and beans everyday. Does laundry once or twice a week. Keeps the dishes and house clean. Goes to the haitian market to pick up supplies. Once things pick up at Leve house, we'll need to hire someone to help take on some of these tasks, but for now Nicole handles it all with ease!

Yonel is security and helps in the yard. He also runs some errands for us. He makes sure we have drinking water everyday. Get us phone cards when we need them. He is responsible for watching the gate and letting people in. He locks the house up at night. Yonel also helps keep the yard picked up and waters our plants when we don't have rain.

Tavek

Some pictures of the near-by village Tavek. The community of Tavek will be the main village Leve Project will be working with.

The House

Here are some pictures that Megan took of the house since she arrived last week.  As you can see, before we open it up as a Life Center to the people of Cayes Jacmel, some work needs to be done!

Here's the kitchen.

Most of the common areas are tiled, except this room, the hallway, and bedrooms.

This is the little house in the backyard.

This is the ceiling.

A shower.  It's not leveled so no water actually flows through the drain.

We need your help to get our house to a place where we can begin helping others!  We're excited to see what God is going to do after blessing us with this house!

Leve Project has officially made it to Haiti. Megan Haug arrived on June 2nd to our house in Cayes Jacmel. But our house is empty!! Before we can open up our home as a Life Center or start a loan program, we need your help! We have a needs list of items you can donate, and as people travel on mission trips here, they will bring donated items in their luggage. However, there are many things that we need to purchase here in Haiti. The following is a list of needs of those items. You can choose to give a monetary donation that will go to a specific item, or give a general donation and we will use it where needed most. 

4-6 beds       $100 each

small stove $325

refrigerator $700

kitchen table & chairs $250

desk & chair $75

wood for shelves $75

cooking pots $45

dirt & rocks to level yard $80

small generator $300

couch & other seating ???

This list is just the beginning. Look around your house. Everything you see, we don’t have and probably need it! Thank you for being a part of God’s work in Haiti and partnering with Leve Project!!