Pou Beni!

Pou Beni!  Want to know what that means?...please read this :)

Dear friends and family,

Great news! ZoeRoots has been offered a matching gift by a generous donor. All the donations to ZoeRoots this week will be matched up to $5000! That is a potential $10,000 donation!!

This money will be used to begin our process of opening our first COMMUNITY WELLNESS CENTER in Haiti called ‘Pou Beni’ which means ‘to bless.’ We will open this center with Providence Christian University. With the money we raise this week we can apply for permits within Haiti and towards locating an appropriate property to rent.

If you follow me on Facebook, you were introduced in May to many of our partners that we offer consultation and support on compassionate trauma care. Pou Beni Center will collaborate with them and work to respond to and prevent domestic and gender based violence, child sexual abuse, malnutrition, as well as offer critical mental health care that impact families. Sadly, I’ve held children dying of malnutrition. Most children in Haiti have only one meal per day, some less and 1 in 14 will die of malnutrition by age 5. Our outreaches will include meals and we’ll host nutrition classes to help families make the best use of the food choices they have with their meager earnings. 

In this beautiful, tiny country, the poorest in the western hemisphere, we see hope. Hope in getting our hands dirty and being innovative, compassionate, and carrying Christ’s message of redemption and grace to our brothers and sisters struggling to survive in dire poverty. We have so much information and resources available to us in the United States. In Haiti, there is very little.

This October we will host the first Family Preservation Symposium to faith based groups. We are excited to tell them of Pou Beni and a new resource to compassionately care for those who are traumatized.

Would you please consider donating this week so that your gift will double through our matching gift donor and we can begin the joyful process of opening Pou Beni Center?

Donations can be made via our donate page.

Most gratefully, Tamara White