For more information...

I am going to work on getting my slideshow and information up on this website within the next few days so keep your eyes out for that. In the meantime, I would like to share several websites for you to check out for more information on child poverty, the children of Haiti, and the efforts happening each day to make Haiti a more peaceful, hopeful nation.

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) is where I did a lot of my reasearch. UNICEF is a United Nations Program headquartered in New York City, that provides long-term humanitarian and developmental assistance to children and mothers in developing countries.

You can find out more about their world around the world on their main page at http://www.unicef.org/

or you can focus in on specifically Haiti at http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/haiti.html

They also have a page called Child Alert - Haiti, which is a briefing series that presents the core challenges for children in a given crisis location at a given time. Check it out at http://www.unicef.org/childalert/haiti/

To learn more about child poverty in general, visit http://www.unicef.org/socialpolicy/index_childpoverty.html

In this project I am working with Global Vision Citadel Ministries (www.gvcm.org), which is an organization that responds to the needs of Haiti. On their website, they say that:

"Our ongoing GVCM Ministry efforts are many-fold, with projects at the forefront in the areas of greatest need. For a well-rounded Christian service Ministry, GVCM encompasses the following: aggressive evangelism, education, music and worship, pastor training and seminars, bible school, revival, medical, and nutrition. GVCM is constantly involved in an ever-changing list of special projects to respond to immediate and short-term needs. The focus of these projects includes such needs as: construction, mobile medical, water sourcing, nutrition, agricultural, and deaf education."

Please check out their website to find out more about their efforts in Haiti both pre- and post-earthquake, and all the work that they are doing to help a struggling, loving, and deserving population.

GVCM is the organization that I am planning on working with over spring break on a mission trip to Haiti with an amazing group from Cherry Hills Community Church (http://www.chcc.org/). Find out more about the mission at http://www.chcc.org/dtw_haiti.aspx