Hi, my name is Carol Joy and I am fundraising to bring Dr. Grandin's family quickly out of danger in Haiti to their new home in the Northwest.

As a kid, my friends from Haiti would come to visit every two years and show me pictures of the orphanage where they worked. I asked where are the beds and pillows for the children and offered to give them mine. During their next visit, I asked where are the dressers and closets for the children's clothes and they said, "The children only have the clothes they are wearing until they outgrow them". "What do they get for living here?" I asked and they replied, "We give them, food, shelter, schooling and Love," I remembered those visits and talks and supported that orphanage until the day my friends had to leave because the walls and gates did not keep hungry people from breaking in to find food. Years later while helping a friend at a food bank I asked, "Who is that young man?" and the minister who managed the food bank said "He is a young doctor from Haiti here to get medical equipment we have collected for him." I went over and introduced myself to Lesly Grandin for the first time and asked if I could pray for him and a prayer came from my heart like I had known him for years like he was already a family friend. Lesly came to my home and my husband Joe and I offered to help him with money for shipping the medical supplies. I was thrilled because I have seen poverty, was homeless myself for a short while and I am a retired nurse who volunteers. We built a friendship with Lesly and he sent us pictures of his clinics and the school he opened for the children in his home village. Then the violence from poor hungry people in subhuman living conditions exploded, supplies were threatened, the schools were shut, and Dr. Grandin's family are now confined to their home for safety's sake. I am raising funds to bring Dr. Grandin and his family to my community where "Love Will Make A Way" our private sponsor team of 7, trained through WelcomeCorp.Org is ready to assist them in safely moving to a new home. We are part of the #StandForSomething generation.

All funds will be used for food, shelter, housing and the needs of a family beginning again. Any monies raised beyond our goal will go to help our next family.