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!! 

friday in Jacmel

Eric, Francois and I (megan) left downtown PAP this morning on a van heading for Jacmel. Traffic was horrible, it took us over a good hour just to get out of PAP traffic. Once we did though, it was a smooth easy drive. When our van came to it's final stop, we hopped on three motto taxis in search of the Isaiah 61 guesthouse. It's a very nice (and fairly new) guesthouse run by Community Coalition for Haiti. After settling in and eating lunch... we were ready to house hunt!! We had three houses on our list, all of them in Cayes Jacmel, just a little east of here. The first two are houses that Francois found when he came here in December. Then when the director of Isaiah 61 heard that we were house hunting, she hooked us up with another connection for a house available to rent.  However, after much waiting and many phone calls back and forth... we were told that there was a demonstration going on in the streets, blocking the route to Cayes Jacmel. Apparently, the news of Aristide coming back to Haiti in March was announced today, so his supporters were celebrating/demonstrating in the streets. Though we were disappointed we didn't make it to Cayes Jacmel, we got to look at a house for rent here in Jacmel. It was in the process of being remodeled, and though it looks like a nice house... the asking price was way too high. We didn't bother trying to negotiate yet, although it was nice, there was nothing super impressive about it. It just didn't strike us. I think we're holding out and hoping that the house Francois has told us about will work out!! Our plan is to go check out the houses in Cayes Jacmel tomorrow, si dye vle (God willing).

Thursday

Today Eric, Francois and I (megan) met with Carine, director of Fonkoze. It was a great meeting! We were able to get some answers, fill in some blanks and share our vision of our partnership. We really seem to be on the same page as far as what we want to see happen. Leve Project will be a Ti Kredi center. Our center will have 50 (they will be put into small groups of 5) women enrolled that will all go through the cycle of the program together. Usually, a Ti Kredi program consists of several "centers", adding up to 200 women. We'll be starting with the one center, piggy backing with a larger Ti Kredi program in the area. This is a great opportunity to kick-off our partnership with Fonkoze!!

Once our center is fully funded, we will be able to start enrollment. The cost of the program is $140 per women, making the total cost for our initial center $7,000. Be on the look-out, we'll be sharing more about Family Sponsorships and how you can be a part of empowering Haitian families!

we're in Haiti!

Just a quick update from Haiti:

Eric and Megan met up with Francois at the airport... and of course spent time waiting around the airport, cause that's just the way things go. We're staying at the Methodist Guest House in Petionville. Lots of other people here and while it's not quite as fun to be in a crowded room and not be able to spread out... it's always nice to meet other people and make new connections.

Eric was able to meet Sebastian's (his son from Three Angels) dad for the first time. Sebastian's mother died in the earthquake, so it was especially special to be able to make contact with his dad. Eric was able to show him pictures and tell him how Sebastian is doing.

We are meeting with Carine, the director of Fonkoze first thing tomorrow morning. We made a list of questions and made sure we were ready for that meeting! We are excited to finally meet Carine and discuss what our partnership will look like.  After our meeting, I'm sure we'll have lots of planning to do! We also hope to swing by Three Angels and say hi to some friends other there.

Friday morning, we'll head to Jacmel. This is the part we're really looking forward to!! We're looking forward to seeing a new place, meeting new people, staying at a new guest house.... and FINDING A HOUSE TO RENT!!   We'll stay in Jacmel Friday and Saturday night and head back to PAP on Sunday. There are a few other things we'd like to do-- price check a few items, meet some new contacts, etc. After our meeting with Fonkoze and trip to Jacmel, we'll have a lot to discuss and decisions to make!

Nothing to Wear

We want to share something new and exciting with you! 

It's the Nothing to Wear challenge. The challenge to stop being apathetic towards poverty. You've been told you're suppose to care for those in need, remember the widows and orphans, give your money away, pray for hurting people and serve the least of these. We're not going to tell you anything. We're going to let you experience it. It's easy to be indifferent to something we can't identify with. Like poverty. Through the NTW challenge, participants will get a small taste of poverty by having nothing to wear. They wear the same shirt day after day, while raising funds to help fight poverty. 

A launch group from Evansville, Indiana will be participating in the first ever Nothing to Wear challenge in February. We started out by committing to wear the shirt for 7 days straight, and for every $100 raised, we will wear the shirt for another day. Because of donations already given, we're wearing the shirt for 13 days so far. Our goal is to wear it for the whole month of February. 

Don't miss this opportunity fun opportunity to get involved in fighting poverty! Your money goes directly to Haitian families in need. You can donate any amount to help towards adding another day for the group. 

If you're interested in having your own group participate in NTW, contact me at megan@leveproject.org

You can donate through paypal on our website, or send checks (be sure to put "nothing to wear" in the memo) to: 

Leve Project

2956 N. 425 E. 

Danville, IN 46122

ntwchallenge.org

http://vimeo.com/18556581

Megan Haug

Leve Project director

change for a change!!

Here is a simple way to collect and give money to those in need-- set up a change jar in your house. Instead of throwing all your change in your purse, just drop it in the jar and watch how quickly it adds up! Your pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters will make a huge difference in someone's life. You can collect the change just through the Christmas season, or keep it up for months and see how much you get!

Simply print off this image (click to view entire image):

and tape it on any type of jar or container. I started w/ a peanut butter jar, but it would take some mad skills to cut a slit in the lid... I later found a coffee can and that works great!

Collect and donate your change to make a difference in someone's life. I'm not asking you to plan a massive fundraising event (but go for it, if you want to!), sell your kidney, or go door to door soliciting. Simply drop change in a jar. And, then yes, you will have to go to the bank, write a check, and then drop it in the mail. But is that too much in exchange for giving families like his a chance at a better life?? 

Leve Project is a 501(c)3 (meaning your gift can be tax exempt) non-profit ministry. We are committed to walking along side Haitian families on their journey out of poverty. I'm asking for your support of Leve Project. However, if you don't want to give and support Leve Project... please, collect your change and give to whatever ministry you are involved in. 

Checks can be mailed to: 

Leve Project

2956 N. 425 E.

Danville, IN   46122

Leve Scoop, Issue 1

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