Team:
March 2013: ,
A team from College Heights Baptist Church travelled to Jacmel, Haiti to work alongside Olive Tree Projects to bring about change in the local community. The team built a playground for the community children and reached out to a school through VBS. The team also helped fix up the guest house and clinic of the Olive Tree Projects main building.
Additional items accomplished:
- 237 Children attended VBS at local school
- 250cc motorized tricycle purchased for local bottle depot
- Playground, swing set, teeter totter and tree house constructed for community
- 250 care packages left with Olive Tree Projects staff to hand out to deserving families
- 1 Team member baptized in ocean
- 50+ people attended a community party to celebrate a new playground
- 800+ lbs of supplies for local organizations (medical supplies, personal hygiene items, welding supplies)
- 2 nurses spent 2 days serving at local clinic helping to implement a new patient records system
- Welder, generator and supplies purchased as a part of a welding microfinance opportunity
- 4 new truck tires purchased for ministry vehicle