The Paint Bar Fundraiser, held on June 23rd, 2012, in Newton, Massachusetts was a fun and successful event! The event was organized by Restavec Freedom Alliance volunteer Nancy Evans who has traveled twice to Haiti. It was a great opportunity for Ellen Graber Donohue to share the story of RFA with others who attended the event. The evening…
A team of 20 volunteers and leaders will be traveling to Haiti with Restavec Freedom Alliance, BEM Inc. from July 31st to August 7th 2012! This is our second summer volunteer trip and we have received more applications than ever before. The team is very diverse originating from the all over the USA, Canada, Germany…
Work continues on our home and our latrine, for the children to use during school and for the community to use who attend church, is almost complete!! Below is a photo of our new latrine! The Restavec Freedom Alliance volunteer team will be giving it a nice coat of paint during their trip from May…
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The Bacon Academy’s Community Activism Class will be hosting a Pasta Dinner fundraiser on May 2, 2012 in the Bacon Academy Cafeteria at 6 p.m. The cost of the dinner is $10 and that will be donated to our organization! Additional donations are always extremely appreciated. If you’d like more information please contact us. To…
We are seeing some great progress with the construction of our first permanent home in Chantal, Haiti! Our contractors are working at an incredible rate and are really motivated to finish the construction so that our children can move into a place they can truly call “home.” As of right now we have raised approximately $20,000 from our extremely…
52 Students at William J. Johnston Middle School in Colchester, CT., recently participated in the second annual “Read a ton, Help a ton” readathon. This year, it was decided that the proceeds would help two charities, and students reading would benefit the local food bank along with Restavec Freedom Alliance. Over $750 was raised for each…
Update: Our dear friend Arne passed away early this morning, 3/10, with his family by his side. More information will forthcoming as his family plans a celebration of his most wonderful life sometime around Easter. The family thanks you for all your prayers and words of encouragement. We send deep love to Arne and his…
Our construction project is well underway! The dedicated workers are working very hard to get this project done for our children. You can see in the photos that the entire foundation is complete including the plumbing. We have raised about 1/3 of the money we need to complete the house. The children are so excited…
These are some photos from Thursday, January 12th. In the morning the Restavec Freedom Alliance team visited the Helo Orphanage and then spent the afternoon with the children of RFA!