H.I.M.
- Haitian Outreach
Basic
Utility Vehicles - Micro Factories
CURRENT
NEED: $50,000 for the development of a
micro-factory / assembly shop in Haiti on the
grounds of Grace International (www.graceintlhaiti.org).
This investment will launch a funding source for
many needed ministries.
A
new and very exciting development is being called “Haitian
Outreach”.
Please pray for Valery
Olivier, a 30 year old man of God who is a
native of
Haiti
, is our staff director of this new outreach.
The mission of Haitian Ministries is “Providing
Education, Training and Healthy Initiatives for
Haitians for the Glory of God”.
Valery’s wife, Micka, and
their four children, are in
Haiti
while Valery is presently in the
United States
preparing
and planning for ministry.
God is blessing some great planning for a
strong ministry in
Haiti
and hopefully to Haitians now living in the
States. We
eagerly welcome your prayer and financial support
for Valery and Micka and our Haitian Ministries.
Our
first priority is to provide educational
opportunities.
Secondly, we sense that job training is
very essential and one goal is to offer job
training in an educational setting.
As a ministry, we could seek to give fish
to hungry people in need.
A better plan, especially for
Haiti
, is to provide people with a fishing rod so they
can learn how to provide fish for themselves.
I think we have found our first of many
projects to help accomplish our mission.
We have been looking for some good fishing
rods. We
are having some discussions for Will Austin with
the Institute
for Affordable Transportation to set up an
assembly factory to provide the Basic
Utility Vehicle (BUV) which is an awesome
solution to so many basic needs.
IAT is a not-for-profit public charity
devoted to developing high-quality, low-cost
transportation for the working poor in the
developing countries.
You can find them on the web at www.drivebuv.org.
IAT’s
mission is to improve living standards and enable
economic growth in the developing world by
creating a simple vehicle that can be assembled
almost anywhere, by almost anyone.
The BUV is a “vehicle for change” that
will help meet people’s everyday needs at the
ends of the earth.
In our mission to provide education,
training and healthy initiatives, we sense an
affiliation with IAT is ideal.
The wealthy can lend a compassionate hand
to the poor as commanded by Scripture to provide a
tool which offers the hope of economic growth and
dignity of work. This will be done by providing
the funds for BUVs and eventually for a factory in
Haiti
to build and export these very useful vehicles to
neighboring countries.
Our aim is to help network with many
ministries and US based churches and organizations
that can make it possible to help us advance the
use of these BUVs in
Haiti
. We
want to provide job training for permanent jobs
thus strengthening these workers and their
families. This
economic empowerment will be done in the context
of spiritual growth so that the Gospel is
proclaimed when possible and the Church in
Haiti
is strengthened.
The
cost is about $1500 per BUV in an unassembled kit.
The assembled unit is about double ($2900).
I am praying we can send ten units to
Haiti
with the next Friend Ships mission trip heading
back to
Haiti
this spring. Web
site is www.friendships.org
. That
means we need to raise at least $15,000 by March 1.
The fact is we probably need
about $50,000 to get this project launched.
Once launched, it will be self sustaining
and actually creating valuable funds for many
ministries. We
are praying you will be generous to help us
establish an effective solution – one that will
teach people to fish for themselves.
BUVs can be used for delivery service, bus
service, ambulance, and for general purposes as a
basic utility vehicle.
The BUV can be used to assist community
development by powering generators, water pumps,
corn mills, cement mixers, saw mills and air
compressors by v-belt.
They are used to develop micro-businesses.
BUVs are simply building blocks for
opportunity - a tool that can help people help
themselves. They
can help children with educational needs; sick and
elderly with access to healthcare; HIV/AIDS work;
farmers and porters with transporting produce to
the markets; missionaries with valuable
transportation to serve their community; to aid
women to do their daily work in less time to have
more time for their family needs, and much more.
Keep in mind that in most cultures
including the Haitian culture, women are typically
responsible for transporting produce and taking
care of family members.
Healthy
Initiatives includes physical, emotional,
relational and spiritual initiatives.
BUVs can be a tool to help develop healthy
initiatives or faith-based whole-person care.
Our plan which is being developed will
include offering job training with the proposed
BUV assembly plants in our educational services.
The plan is to work out a ministry
partnership relationship with IAT.
We will determine the necessary costs and
then seek for sponsors to implement this plan.
I hesitate to state the necessary costs at
this time.
This is a long-term project - one that will
help develop micro-enterprises for a real solution
to a very critical need for the Haitian people.
All for the Glory of God.
We
will need individual sponsors as well as corporate
sponsors. We
will keep you updated in this regular newsletter.
We can be of help.
You can help us get this launched by
sending some seed funds.
You can designate your gift for this
project on the commitment form below.
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