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Haiti
Hartman House has deep set roots in Haiti. For one, Haiti is the reason Hartman House was formed in 2005 by founders Butch and Julieann Hartman. After the recent tragedy having taken place in Haiti, aid is needed now more than ever. Hartman House has travelled to Haiti twice and having seen firsthand how poor and ravaged this country was before the earthquake – well, we can’t even imagine what it must be like now.

Prior to the quake, rampant crime and poverty were everywhere. A great deal of the populace is either unemployed or unemployable. The water is filthy and there are mounds of uncollected garbage as far as the eye can see. Packs of dogs howl all night. Not at the moon, but because they are hungry.

Eleanor “Mom” Workman

Hartman House has teamed with a marvelous organization known as the Christian Haitian Outreach, located in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. This organization owns and operates orphanages in Haiti. The orphanage is managed by a woman named Eleanor “Mom” Workman, a 91 year old African American from the U.S. She first founded the Christian Haitian Outreach Orphanage (CHO) in response to do what she felt God called her to do. Packing up all she had, she moved from Los Angeles to Haiti over 30 years ago and, right away, took in her first charge of 10 orphaned children. These 10 babies were considered to be "Non-thrivers". Hard as it was to deal with orphaned children in a place like Haiti, Mom had another difficulty to face: each one of the children was scheduled to die within three weeks of her receiving them. Despite the Haitian doctor’s plea for her to “just give up” Mom did not listen to him. She listened to God. She took in every single one of those children and, not only did they beat their given odds of survival, they’re now all grown up and many of them are helping her run the orphanage!

It’s difficult enough being an adult and living in a place like this, but just imagine if you were a child living there. To make matters worse, imagine you were an orphaned child and had no place to live but on the garbage-littered, disease-covered streets.

Mom is certainly one hard-working woman; and the orphanage is still going strong. Of course, in Haiti, “strong” is a relative term. The orphanage is in constant need of funding just to pay for the everyday basics: repairs, water, sanitation, beds, food, clothing, etc. Hartman House provided the necessary money to get several large cargo containers - containing desperately needed supplies - out of the hands of the Haitian Customs Officials and to the orphanage. There were 5 containers, each one costing $2500.00 to remove. Also, in June of 2006, Hartman House was able to secure the money necessary to pay for the orphanage’s brand new water supply system. Compared to the disease ridden water before, Mom has assured us that “clean water is flowing every day!” The orphanage is currently housing many children and the number is increasing every year.

It is our intent to provide funding to this exceptionally worthy cause for as long as there is need.

Now with this most recent national disaster in Haiti we are needed now more than ever. Every donation made will be sent directly to CHO to help rebuild the orphanage just outside of Port-Au-Prince.
 


Hartman House works in developing nations and the United States. Where there is a need - we find it. As it turns out, helping others takes hard work and a lot of it, but we are determined to make a change. We currently work in 4 countries: Guatemala, Haiti, Africa, and the United States. This is only the beginning. We hope to continue adding more locations in the future, but in order to do so we need your help. Click your country of interest to find out which programs take place there.