Going Back ! Mission Haiti !

I am raising money to support the Hope Center Orphanage in City of Soleil, Haiti. I will be traveling there for a mission trip July 1. 2016. I am completely funding my own trip and ALL donations will go directly to support the children and staff of the Hope Center. Some of the items I am raising money to bring are to help with vocational programs, like carpentry, as well as shoes and clothing for the children.

If this is something you are interesting in supporting I appreciate any and all donations !

More info about the Hope Center and the City of Soleil.

The Hope Center was the vision of my Uncle, Pastor Tony Palmisano.

In 1992, he made his first trip to Cite-Soleil, Haiti, and he immediately sensed that there was something he was going do there. In the 22 years of going back to Haiti, he attempted to find a way to help the children in one of the most dangerous, violent and impoverished places in the world, but each time his efforts were to no avail.
However, in October 2014, things came together as God connected him with a young Haitian leader, Dorcilien Mercidieu, with a passion to help his own people, but no ability to see his dreams become a reality. Through hundreds of hours of phone calls and text messages, things began to come together and The Hope Centre officially opened in April 2015.

The Hope Centre now houses 40 children, a staff of 8 and 3 full time volunteers.

Mission

Our mission, though it has multiple levels of it, is quit simple:

-To provide love, food, education and safety for children that have never experienced this before.

AND

-To Ensure every child has much opportunity to know God

Cité Soleil

Cité Soleil is the most infamous and most violent slum of the Haitian capital, Port-Au-Prince. The United Nations has declared it the most dangerous place in the world many times, and their peacekeepers are unable to patrol the streets of the ghetto. Extreme poverty, armed gangs, rape, AIDS and unemployment plague the community, and the people in the “Sun City” have to live with virtually no sewers and electricity.


Young people make up most of the slum’s population

There are over 30,000 children under the age of 11 that are homeless and live fending for themselves in Cite-Soleil


Hope Center Home Page


Hope Center Choir!