Haiti

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Haiti
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In the Beginning

• French Colony
• Drop off for sick slaves on route to US
• Started their own government
• As uneducated slaves
• Dedicated to the devil
• To fight the evil they had been treated with

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Corruption of Government

• Democracy
• Killed for supporting wrong party
• Gangs hired by government
• Command to kill all missionaries
• Cite Soleil Poorest and most dangerous slum in
  the Western Hemisphere.
• Pilots warning

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Voodoo

• Witchcraft and Devil worship
• Birth defects, twins
• Spiritual Warfare
• Angels and demons
• Demon possession

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Facts About Haiti

• Capital Port-au-Prince
• Population 8.3 million
• Life Expectancy 49
• Under 5 Infant Mortality Rate 130/1000
• About 32,000 children under the age of 5 die each
  year in Haiti
• GNP Per Capita 370
• (U.S. over 23,000)
• Over 2/3 population have no work
• CIA World Fact Book

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Haiti Foundation Against Poverty
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Mission Statement

• Haiti Foundation Against Poverty exists to raise
  awareness for the extreme poverty Haitians suffer
  from, to raise funds to improve their standards
  of living by providing homes, clothing, food,
  medical attention, and education and to spread
  the message of the Gospel.

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• Religion that Father God accepts as pure and
  faultless is this to look after orphans and
  widows in their distress and to keep oneself from
  being polluted by the world.
• James 127

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Elementary School in LaPlaine
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Sponsorship Program
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Food Distribution Program
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Cite Soleil
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Medical Missions
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• We ask God why do you let all of this poverty and
  war and suffering exist in the world? He asks us
  the same thing. You tell me why we allow this
  to happen. You are my body, my hands, my feet.
• Shane Claiborne, The Irresistible Revolution

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• Whenever we have the opportunity we should do
  good to everyone. Use every chance you have for
  doing good. Whenever you possibly can, do good
  to those who need it.
• Galatians 610 and Ephesians 516

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How YOU Can Help

• Sponsor-A-Child Program
• Help with fundraising
• Provide a donation
• Prayer
• Go on a trip
• Visit www.haitipoverty.org

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SPRING BREAK TripMeeting Thursday Cook/VO Study
Room 3rd Floor - 9PMHaiti Benefit
ConcertNovember 8th 700-1100pm In the Corum