It has been very interesting week learning about poverty and its
affect on children and families around the world. I have not yet heard from my
international counterparts from Haiti. Although my colleagues and me where
given a website to research as an alternative, we were unable to search the
site because of a broken link. As an additional alternative, I decided to find
a website related to my place of choice regarding poverty, children, and
families. I found an organization, “Haiti Foundation Against Poverty (HFAP);”
it provided the history of the founder and what services they offered to children
and families of Haiti. In 2007, Mallery Neptune desired to spread the Gospel
and help children in need, so she founded HFAP, a non-profit organization to
empower widowed, poor, and orphaned children of Haiti. With all of Neptune’s
efforts, she has helped to establish many things to
help children and families who live in poverty including, Les Bours School of Hope, a Christian school
for the children in Haiti and The Clinic of Hope for students who need care.
She has also established an infant rescue clinic called the Hope House for wounded
and malnutrition children. The list of things Neptune has done to help these
children and families are endless.
I have learned so many new things about Haiti. Their children and
families are empowered to fight against poverty and its affect through the help
of HFAP. With this organization, both children and families are able to receive
medical services from the clinic; children are able to receive an education
from the school, and all children and families who live in poverty can receive
meals from the “Food Foundation.” Neptune has provided the women of Haiti with
a development program to assistance them in learning new skills to care for their
children as well as an income to care for their children after treatment at the
Hope House.
I have gained many new insights and information from this website
related to poverty and how it affects children and families. Poverty is very prominent
in Haiti; many of the children and their families struggle each day to stay
alive. If it were not for the efforts of Mallery Neptune and her husband, many
of the children and families would starve to death. One sixteen year-old girl’s
dreams came true after she visited Haiti so long ago; if it were not for her
love and support, many of the children and families of Haiti would not be alive
today. The Haiti Foundation Against Poverty has given all of these families
hope to continue to live, laugh, and love. If you would like more information about
this foundation and the organization, please follow this link below to see how you
can help the people of Haiti. http://www.haitipoverty.org/
Inspired greatly,
Lah-Lah Devine
