I suppose many are waiting to know what I decided to do with the donations I collected.
First of all; thank you all so much for every cent! Also to all people that bought my pictures for the good cause; thank you! We raised a big amount of money – I would have never imagined…
Christophe Ramjoie, Annabelle Mockel, Dannii Römer, Petra Johnen and me have created a new NGO called VIV TIMOUN (Creole for: live little child). We want to help children and families in Haiti.
We decided to partner with HAITI CARE.
Since I am going to Haiti for almost 3 years now and I always stayed with Natacha, the director of Haiti Care in Haiti, I have seen that they do really great work here. Haiti Care has a school and an orphanage and about 20 employees. Natacha is one of them. She is such a great personality, strong character and works so hard.
Michael Kaasch is the founder of Haiti Care – he is also an awesome German man. He and his wife work their ass off for their charity – and everything for free. Since they don’t know what they are going to do with the organization when they get older, VIV TIMOUN decided that we are going to be partners and help as much as we can.
We will use a big amount of the money for the rebuilding of the orphanage and school of Haiti Care. Then we will look for people that are willing to sponsor a child for a long time.
We will use the rest of the money for other projects. For example giving seed capitals to people that want to open small businesses or giving out tents to the people that still don’t have some and get really wet every time it starts raining. I will take care of these projects myself in the next days.
Demolishing MEVA, the school of Haiti Care.
Natachas protection against the dust
Natacha and a child in Carrefour Feuille