organization: -> Non-Profit, Disaster Relief/Development

main_phone: 612-929-1122 -> U.S.: 1-612-929-1122
address: 15119 Minnetonka Blvd. Minnetonka, MN 55345 on National Route 3 -> U.S. ADDR: 15119 Minnetonka Blvd., Minnetonka, MN 55345 HAITI ADDR: on National Route 3

notes: http://www.haitioutreach.org/resource-center/ Many people are contacting us, offering to take a trip to Haiti to help with earthquake relief and reconstruction. We are grateful that so many people are willing to do this. However, at this time, our organization does not have a base in the Port-au-Prince area and would be unable to house and feed people, and do not have activities available to be done in a safe and organized way. Also, commercial airlines have not yet resumed flying to Haiti, making it very difficult to get there right now. We are keeping a list of the people who have offered to help in this way and if and when our situation changes and we are able to bring groups to Haiti to help directly with earthquake relief, we will let them know and publish that information here. At this time we are also unaware of other organizations who are taking groups to Haiti and able to put them to good use. ========= Emergency Relief and Reconstruction for Haiti http://www.haitioutreach.org/events/ --------- Haiti Outreach Update Thursday, January 21 Haiti Outreach Board member Jim Kirzeder landed in the Dominican Republic on Sunday, January 17th . and traveled to Haiti Outreach’s headquarters in Pignon. Jim indicates that things are far worse than he imagined and so many rural towns have been severely damaged as well. No help has come to any of them. People are very, very desperate. He and Country Director Neil Van Dine were making a trip to Port-au-Prince on Monday, taking along a trauma surgeon that came in on the same flight with Jim. They are attending a big water meeting in Port and then have been asked to go to the Missionary Aviation Fellowship (MAF) terminal to assess the damage and to see if Haiti Outreach can be of any help there. They helped get water and electric going in the general hospital in Port au Prince. Then went off to Gonaives to look at the irrigation wells we have been asked to fix by IOM Neil Van Dine reports that Haiti Outreach is using our Guest House to provide housing to people transiting through Pignon at no cost. Folks are trapped without any money or ways to get at their funds. Relief teams will also be able to be housed there. Some additional information from our Country Director Neil: “I am in Santiago, just dropped off a guy and waiting for three more to come in tonight been waking up at 3am to get stuff done. Yesterday mornings quake was 6.1. Brought down more houses that were already damaged and killed more people who thought it was all over and went back to sleeping in thier houses again. It’s pretty rugged. No time to answer emails, and I’ve gotten 1000 in the last week. Trip from Santiago to Port takes 8 hours. I’ve done it 3x in the last week; but it’s the only place to get supplies and people in/out. The whole airport area in Port is packed full of supplies. Some now getting out to people so desperation is less. The smell of rotting bodies is everywhere… those buried in rubble. Even after leaving Port it takes days to get the smell gone. No way of knowing how many dead. It was huge, had a friend of mine who was one of about 6 people who survived the collapse of the big supermarket. A lot is being sensationalized, but things are pretty rough. Essentially the whole city is going to need to be torn down. Probably +80% of the buildings are unusable. It’s going to take years and years to rebuild. In one sense it is a tremendous opportunity, but it’s going to take a lot of leadership to push things through. That will be the deciding factor; whether the leaders will step up and institute some controls or whether they will squander it. History says they will squander it. We have to hope, pray and work to disprove history. I spoke with our Congressman from Pignon yesterday to get him thinking along these lines; about how to start rebuilding, rather than begging for aid. Tried to give him some ideas on what they can do. For example eliminate all customs duties on building materials for 2 years. I could tell he hadn’t thought that way, but that he could see the value. We’ll see. I’ll keep talking with him and hopefully he will be talking to others.” Our continued thanks for your thoughts and financial support of the people in Haiti. Dale Snyder Executive Director SEE MORE AT: http://www.haitioutreach.org/events/ -> FACEBOOK: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=65013260585 YOUTUBE: http://www.youtube.com/user/fink0136 ------------------------------------------ http://www.haitioutreach.org/resource-center/ Many people are contacting us, offering to take a trip to Haiti to help with earthquake relief and reconstruction. We are grateful that so many people are willing to do this. However, at this time, our organization does not have a base in the Port-au-Prince area and would be unable to house and feed people, and do not have activities available to be done in a safe and organized way. Also, commercial airlines have not yet resumed flying to Haiti, making it very difficult to get there right now. We are keeping a list of the people who have offered to help in this way and if and when our situation changes and we are able to bring groups to Haiti to help directly with earthquake relief, we will let them know and publish that information here. At this time we are also unaware of other organizations who are taking groups to Haiti and able to put them to good use. ========= Emergency Relief and Reconstruction for Haiti http://www.haitioutreach.org/events/ --------- Haiti Outreach Update Thursday, January 21 Haiti Outreach Board member Jim Kirzeder landed in the Dominican Republic on Sunday, January 17th . and traveled to Haiti Outreach’s headquarters in Pignon. Jim indicates that things are far worse than he imagined and so many rural towns have been severely damaged as well. No help has come to any of them. People are very, very desperate. He and Country Director Neil Van Dine were making a trip to Port-au-Prince on Monday, taking along a trauma surgeon that came in on the same flight with Jim. They are attending a big water meeting in Port and then have been asked to go to the Missionary Aviation Fellowship (MAF) terminal to assess the damage and to see if Haiti Outreach can be of any help there. They helped get water and electric going in the general hospital in Port au Prince. Then went off to Gonaives to look at the irrigation wells we have been asked to fix by IOM Neil Van Dine reports that Haiti Outreach is using our Guest House to provide housing to people transiting through Pignon at no cost. Folks are trapped without any money or ways to get at their funds. Relief teams will also be able to be housed there. Some additional information from our Country Director Neil: “I am in Santiago, just dropped off a guy and waiting for three more to come in tonight been waking up at 3am to get stuff done. Yesterday mornings quake was 6.1. Brought down more houses that were already damaged and killed more people who thought it was all over and went back to sleeping in thier houses again. It’s pretty rugged. No time to answer emails, and I’ve gotten 1000 in the last week. Trip from Santiago to Port takes 8 hours. I’ve done it 3x in the last week; but it’s the only place to get supplies and people in/out. The whole airport area in Port is packed full of supplies. Some now getting out to people so desperation is less. The smell of rotting bodies is everywhere… those buried in rubble. Even after leaving Port it takes days to get the smell gone. No way of knowing how many dead. It was huge, had a friend of mine who was one of about 6 people who survived the collapse of the big supermarket. A lot is being sensationalized, but things are pretty rough. Essentially the whole city is going to need to be torn down. Probably +80% of the buildings are unusable. It’s going to take years and years to rebuild. In one sense it is a tremendous opportunity, but it’s going to take a lot of leadership to push things through. That will be the deciding factor; whether the leaders will step up and institute some controls or whether they will squander it. History says they will squander it. We have to hope, pray and work to disprove history. I spoke with our Congressman from Pignon yesterday to get him thinking along these lines; about how to start rebuilding, rather than begging for aid. Tried to give him some ideas on what they can do. For example eliminate all customs duties on building materials for 2 years. I could tell he hadn’t thought that way, but that he could see the value. We’ll see. I’ll keep talking with him and hopefully he will be talking to others.” Our continued thanks for your thoughts and financial support of the people in Haiti. Dale Snyder Executive Director SEE MORE AT: http://www.haitioutreach.org/events/

region: Haiti, Caribbean -> Nord

address: 15119 Minnetonka Blvd. Minnetonka, MN 55345 -> 15119 Minnetonka Blvd. Minnetonka, MN 55345 on National Route 3

notes: http://www.haitioutreach.org/resource-center/ Many people are contacting us, offering to take a trip to Haiti to help with earthquake relief and reconstruction. We are grateful that so many people are willing to do this. However, at this time, our organization does not have a base in the Port-au-Prince area and would be unable to house and feed people, and do not have activities available to be done in a safe and organized way. Also, commercial airlines have not yet resumed flying to Haiti, making it very difficult to get there right now. We are keeping a list of the people who have offered to help in this way and if and when our situation changes and we are able to bring groups to Haiti to help directly with earthquake relief, we will let them know and publish that information here. At this time we are also unaware of other organizations who are taking groups to Haiti and able to put them to good use. --------- Haiti Outreach Update Thursday, January 21 Haiti Outreach Board member Jim Kirzeder landed in the Dominican Republic on Sunday, January 17th . and traveled to Haiti Outreach’s headquarters in Pignon. Jim indicates that things are far worse than he imagined and so many rural towns have been severely damaged as well. No help has come to any of them. People are very, very desperate. He and Country Director Neil Van Dine were making a trip to Port-au-Prince on Monday, taking along a trauma surgeon that came in on the same flight with Jim. They are attending a big water meeting in Port and then have been asked to go to the Missionary Aviation Fellowship (MAF) terminal to assess the damage and to see if Haiti Outreach can be of any help there. They helped get water and electric going in the general hospital in Port au Prince. Then went off to Gonaives to look at the irrigation wells we have been asked to fix by IOM Neil Van Dine reports that Haiti Outreach is using our Guest House to provide housing to people transiting through Pignon at no cost. Folks are trapped without any money or ways to get at their funds. Relief teams will also be able to be housed there. Some additional information from our Country Director Neil: “I am in Santiago, just dropped off a guy and waiting for three more to come in tonight been waking up at 3am to get stuff done. Yesterday mornings quake was 6.1. Brought down more houses that were already damaged and killed more people who thought it was all over and went back to sleeping in thier houses again. It’s pretty rugged. No time to answer emails, and I’ve gotten 1000 in the last week. Trip from Santiago to Port takes 8 hours. I’ve done it 3x in the last week; but it’s the only place to get supplies and people in/out. The whole airport area in Port is packed full of supplies. Some now getting out to people so desperation is less. The smell of rotting bodies is everywhere… those buried in rubble. Even after leaving Port it takes days to get the smell gone. No way of knowing how many dead. It was huge, had a friend of mine who was one of about 6 people who survived the collapse of the big supermarket. A lot is being sensationalized, but things are pretty rough. Essentially the whole city is going to need to be torn down. Probably +80% of the buildings are unusable. It’s going to take years and years to rebuild. In one sense it is a tremendous opportunity, but it’s going to take a lot of leadership to push things through. That will be the deciding factor; whether the leaders will step up and institute some controls or whether they will squander it. History says they will squander it. We have to hope, pray and work to disprove history. I spoke with our Congressman from Pignon yesterday to get him thinking along these lines; about how to start rebuilding, rather than begging for aid. Tried to give him some ideas on what they can do. For example eliminate all customs duties on building materials for 2 years. I could tell he hadn’t thought that way, but that he could see the value. We’ll see. I’ll keep talking with him and hopefully he will be talking to others.” Our continued thanks for your thoughts and financial support of the people in Haiti. Dale Snyder Executive Director SEE MORE AT: http://www.haitioutreach.org/events/ -> http://www.haitioutreach.org/resource-center/ Many people are contacting us, offering to take a trip to Haiti to help with earthquake relief and reconstruction. We are grateful that so many people are willing to do this. However, at this time, our organization does not have a base in the Port-au-Prince area and would be unable to house and feed people, and do not have activities available to be done in a safe and organized way. Also, commercial airlines have not yet resumed flying to Haiti, making it very difficult to get there right now. We are keeping a list of the people who have offered to help in this way and if and when our situation changes and we are able to bring groups to Haiti to help directly with earthquake relief, we will let them know and publish that information here. At this time we are also unaware of other organizations who are taking groups to Haiti and able to put them to good use. ========= Emergency Relief and Reconstruction for Haiti http://www.haitioutreach.org/events/ --------- Haiti Outreach Update Thursday, January 21 Haiti Outreach Board member Jim Kirzeder landed in the Dominican Republic on Sunday, January 17th . and traveled to Haiti Outreach’s headquarters in Pignon. Jim indicates that things are far worse than he imagined and so many rural towns have been severely damaged as well. No help has come to any of them. People are very, very desperate. He and Country Director Neil Van Dine were making a trip to Port-au-Prince on Monday, taking along a trauma surgeon that came in on the same flight with Jim. They are attending a big water meeting in Port and then have been asked to go to the Missionary Aviation Fellowship (MAF) terminal to assess the damage and to see if Haiti Outreach can be of any help there. They helped get water and electric going in the general hospital in Port au Prince. Then went off to Gonaives to look at the irrigation wells we have been asked to fix by IOM Neil Van Dine reports that Haiti Outreach is using our Guest House to provide housing to people transiting through Pignon at no cost. Folks are trapped without any money or ways to get at their funds. Relief teams will also be able to be housed there. Some additional information from our Country Director Neil: “I am in Santiago, just dropped off a guy and waiting for three more to come in tonight been waking up at 3am to get stuff done. Yesterday mornings quake was 6.1. Brought down more houses that were already damaged and killed more people who thought it was all over and went back to sleeping in thier houses again. It’s pretty rugged. No time to answer emails, and I’ve gotten 1000 in the last week. Trip from Santiago to Port takes 8 hours. I’ve done it 3x in the last week; but it’s the only place to get supplies and people in/out. The whole airport area in Port is packed full of supplies. Some now getting out to people so desperation is less. The smell of rotting bodies is everywhere… those buried in rubble. Even after leaving Port it takes days to get the smell gone. No way of knowing how many dead. It was huge, had a friend of mine who was one of about 6 people who survived the collapse of the big supermarket. A lot is being sensationalized, but things are pretty rough. Essentially the whole city is going to need to be torn down. Probably +80% of the buildings are unusable. It’s going to take years and years to rebuild. In one sense it is a tremendous opportunity, but it’s going to take a lot of leadership to push things through. That will be the deciding factor; whether the leaders will step up and institute some controls or whether they will squander it. History says they will squander it. We have to hope, pray and work to disprove history. I spoke with our Congressman from Pignon yesterday to get him thinking along these lines; about how to start rebuilding, rather than begging for aid. Tried to give him some ideas on what they can do. For example eliminate all customs duties on building materials for 2 years. I could tell he hadn’t thought that way, but that he could see the value. We’ll see. I’ll keep talking with him and hopefully he will be talking to others.” Our continued thanks for your thoughts and financial support of the people in Haiti. Dale Snyder Executive Director SEE MORE AT: http://www.haitioutreach.org/events/

notes: http://www.haitioutreach.org/resource-center/ Many people are contacting us, offering to take a trip to Haiti to help with earthquake relief and reconstruction. We are grateful that so many people are willing to do this. However, at this time, our organization does not have a base in the Port-au-Prince area and would be unable to house and feed people, and do not have activities available to be done in a safe and organized way. Also, commercial airlines have not yet resumed flying to Haiti, making it very difficult to get there right now. We are keeping a list of the people who have offered to help in this way and if and when our situation changes and we are able to bring groups to Haiti to help directly with earthquake relief, we will let them know and publish that information here. At this time we are also unaware of other organizations who are taking groups to Haiti and able to put them to good use. --------- Haiti Outreach Update Thursday, January 21 Haiti Outreach Board member Jim Kirzeder landed in the Dominican Republic on Sunday, January 17th . and traveled to Haiti Outreach’s headquarters in Pignon. Jim indicates that things are far worse than he imagined and so many rural towns have been severely damaged as well. No help has come to any of them. People are very, very desperate. He and Country Director Neil Van Dine were making a trip to Port-au-Prince on Monday, taking along a trauma surgeon that came in on the same flight with Jim. They are attending a big water meeting in Port and then have been asked to go to the Missionary Aviation Fellowship (MAF) terminal to assess the damage and to see if Haiti Outreach can be of any help there. They helped get water and electric going in the general hospital in Port au Prince. Then went off to Gonaives to look at the irrigation wells we have been asked to fix by IOM Neil Van Dine reports that Haiti Outreach is using our Guest House to provide housing to people transiting through Pignon at no cost. Folks are trapped without any money or ways to get at their funds. Relief teams will also be able to be housed there. Some additional information from our Country Director Neil: “I am in Santiago, just dropped off a guy and waiting for three more to come in tonight been waking up at 3am to get stuff done. Yesterday mornings quake was 6.1. Brought down more houses that were already damaged and killed more people who thought it was all over and went back to sleeping in thier houses again. It’s pretty rugged. No time to answer emails, and I’ve gotten 1000 in the last week. Trip from Santiago to Port takes 8 hours. I’ve done it 3x in the last week; but it’s the only place to get supplies and people in/out. The whole airport area in Port is packed full of supplies. Some now getting out to people so desperation is less. The smell of rotting bodies is everywhere… those buried in rubble. Even after leaving Port it takes days to get the smell gone. No way of knowing how many dead. It was huge, had a friend of mine who was one of about 6 people who survived the collapse of the big supermarket. A lot is being sensationalized, but things are pretty rough. Essentially the whole city is going to need to be torn down. Probably +80% of the buildings are unusable. It’s going to take years and years to rebuild. In one sense it is a tremendous opportunity, but it’s going to take a lot of leadership to push things through. That will be the deciding factor; whether the leaders will step up and institute some controls or whether they will squander it. History says they will squander it. We have to hope, pray and work to disprove history. I spoke with our Congressman from Pignon yesterday to get him thinking along these lines; about how to start rebuilding, rather than begging for aid. Tried to give him some ideas on what they can do. For example eliminate all customs duties on building materials for 2 years. I could tell he hadn’t thought that way, but that he could see the value. We’ll see. I’ll keep talking with him and hopefully he will be talking to others.” Our continued thanks for your thoughts and financial support of the people in Haiti. Dale Snyder Executive Director SEE MORE AT: http://www.haitioutreach.org/events/ -> http://www.haitioutreach.org/resource-center/ Many people are contacting us, offering to take a trip to Haiti to help with earthquake relief and reconstruction. We are grateful that so many people are willing to do this. However, at this time, our organization does not have a base in the Port-au-Prince area and would be unable to house and feed people, and do not have activities available to be done in a safe and organized way. Also, commercial airlines have not yet resumed flying to Haiti, making it very difficult to get there right now. We are keeping a list of the people who have offered to help in this way and if and when our situation changes and we are able to bring groups to Haiti to help directly with earthquake relief, we will let them know and publish that information here. At this time we are also unaware of other organizations who are taking groups to Haiti and able to put them to good use. --------- Haiti Outreach Update Thursday, January 21 Haiti Outreach Board member Jim Kirzeder landed in the Dominican Republic on Sunday, January 17th . and traveled to Haiti Outreach’s headquarters in Pignon. Jim indicates that things are far worse than he imagined and so many rural towns have been severely damaged as well. No help has come to any of them. People are very, very desperate. He and Country Director Neil Van Dine were making a trip to Port-au-Prince on Monday, taking along a trauma surgeon that came in on the same flight with Jim. They are attending a big water meeting in Port and then have been asked to go to the Missionary Aviation Fellowship (MAF) terminal to assess the damage and to see if Haiti Outreach can be of any help there. They helped get water and electric going in the general hospital in Port au Prince. Then went off to Gonaives to look at the irrigation wells we have been asked to fix by IOM Neil Van Dine reports that Haiti Outreach is using our Guest House to provide housing to people transiting through Pignon at no cost. Folks are trapped without any money or ways to get at their funds. Relief teams will also be able to be housed there. Some additional information from our Country Director Neil: “I am in Santiago, just dropped off a guy and waiting for three more to come in tonight been waking up at 3am to get stuff done. Yesterday mornings quake was 6.1. Brought down more houses that were already damaged and killed more people who thought it was all over and went back to sleeping in thier houses again. It’s pretty rugged. No time to answer emails, and I’ve gotten 1000 in the last week. Trip from Santiago to Port takes 8 hours. I’ve done it 3x in the last week; but it’s the only place to get supplies and people in/out. The whole airport area in Port is packed full of supplies. Some now getting out to people so desperation is less. The smell of rotting bodies is everywhere… those buried in rubble. Even after leaving Port it takes days to get the smell gone. No way of knowing how many dead. It was huge, had a friend of mine who was one of about 6 people who survived the collapse of the big supermarket. A lot is being sensationalized, but things are pretty rough. Essentially the whole city is going to need to be torn down. Probably +80% of the buildings are unusable. It’s going to take years and years to rebuild. In one sense it is a tremendous opportunity, but it’s going to take a lot of leadership to push things through. That will be the deciding factor; whether the leaders will step up and institute some controls or whether they will squander it. History says they will squander it. We have to hope, pray and work to disprove history. I spoke with our Congressman from Pignon yesterday to get him thinking along these lines; about how to start rebuilding, rather than begging for aid. Tried to give him some ideas on what they can do. For example eliminate all customs duties on building materials for 2 years. I could tell he hadn’t thought that way, but that he could see the value. We’ll see. I’ll keep talking with him and hopefully he will be talking to others.” Our continued thanks for your thoughts and financial support of the people in Haiti. Dale Snyder Executive Director SEE MORE AT: http://www.haitioutreach.org/events/
region: -> Haiti, Caribbean
mission: The Mission of Haiti Outreach “To collaborate with the people of Haiti to build and maintain community-initiated projects that advance their development.” Haiti Outreach, Inc. is a 501(c)3 non-profit, non-governmental organization (NGO) based in Minnesota in the U.S. and Pignon, Haiti, that works with communities in Haiti on water, education and other projects that the communities initiate, help build and sustain. We operate using a 4-point community development model for long term sustainability to ensure that the projects will last over a long period of time. In order for this to happen, a maintenance program based on an economic system – a community savings account to which all users contribute and from which future repairs can be paid – is created and used. Our work is based on a grassroots effort involving community responsibility, participation and ownership, unlike many well-intentioned “development” projects that lack this economic sustainability element and end up creating a dependency. Haiti Outreach is based in the town of Pignon, Haiti, in the north-central part of the country on National Route 3, where we currently employ 24 people who do our community development work. We are a registered non-profit organization with the Haitian government and recognized as a private voluntary organization (PVO) with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). -> The Mission of Haiti Outreach “To collaborate with the people of Haiti to build and maintain community-initiated projects that advance their development.” Haiti Outreach, Inc. is a 501(c)3 non-profit, non-governmental organization (NGO) based in Minnesota in the U.S. and Pignon, Haiti, that works with communities in Haiti on water, education and other projects that the communities initiate, help build and sustain. We operate using a 4-point community development model for long term sustainability to ensure that the projects will last over a long period of time. In order for this to happen, a maintenance program based on an economic system – a community savings account to which all users contribute and from which future repairs can be paid – is created and used. Our work is based on a grassroots effort involving community responsibility, participation and ownership, unlike many well-intentioned “development” projects that lack this economic sustainability element and end up creating a dependency. Haiti Outreach is based in the town of Pignon, Haiti, in the north-central part of the country on National Route 3, where we currently employ 24 people who do our community development work. We are a registered non-profit organization with the Haitian government and recognized as a private voluntary organization (PVO) with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).