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Our Feeding Program
We feed our kids physically with nutritious food and spiritually with God's love

Thank you for being a part of what God is doing in Haiti!  

As we enter 2022, we want to share where God is leading us this year.

First of all, The Feeding Program. Five days a week, your donations help feed hundreds of Haitian children. Our amazing staff not only serve highly nutritious food, they also fill their minds and hearts with God’s love through a short time of Bible sharing. At times, it doesn’t seem like enough food will be there, but God always stretches it, so we have not turned anyone away! This will continue at 11 sites around Jeremie in 2022!

Hopestart Super Kitchen prepping the nutritious, pre-made manna packs to be cooked for distribution. Also pictured is one of our hardworking staff, Yimen, making beef sauce to add more flavor and nutrition to each meal. 

Secondly, our children's home, recently re-named The Bridge of Hope, continues to provide holistic care and focus on each child’s physical, emotional, spiritual and educational needs. The kids are growing up so quickly! No matter what happened to these kids before they joined this family, we know that God has a purpose for each one and we love seeing them grow and blossom. 

Our kids studying hard with online English and math lessons courtesy of our friends at Love Thy Neighbor ministries in San Diego!
Kids from The Bridge of Hope singing worship songs and praising God together

Finally, we are moving forward with our Family Preservation Program. As you may remember, when covid began in 2020, the government pushed for groups to be no larger than 10-15 people. The positive part of this was the discovery that some of our kids had biological families they could be reunited with. However, the downside was the reality that being reunified suddenly and without support could be problematic.

What we learned is that while our kids will always be a part of our Hopestart family, it is better for them to live with their own biological or foster family when possible and as long as the family is equipped. To date we have transitioned 8 kids back to their families with 3 more coming this month.

In 2021 we hired a social worker and a psychologist and began the hard work of developing support systems to help our kids reunify.  Each child and family situation is unique, so we are slowly taking the time to do this process well. More about the ways we are working with our kids and their families will be coming soon!

Family Preservation - these adolescents who have already transitioned back to their families have been equipped with lessons on how to cook. They are now teaching others how to make delicious Haitian recipes!
Using Hopestart's space, our kids decided to start their own Bible studies to continue growing in the Lord with their friends from the community. 

Your support is so important! Without it, kids would be hungry, living on the streets, and without a plan for the future. YOU are bringing hope to Haiti! Whether you pray, give, or go to Haiti, you are an essential part of God’s redemptive work.

Thank you for partnering with us. Let’s see how God works through ALL of us this year in serving and loving the children and families in Haiti, equipping the next generation of Haitians to impact their country! 

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The Hopestart Mission
We bring the love and hope of Jesus to needy children, equipping them to become disciples who are able to contribute significantly to the betterment of their community and country.
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