ISHMAEL, SPORTING A HAITI NECKLACE.

Saturday, June 11, 2011

OUR SILVER LINING

                                        Me, Brenda (the mom), Alex(14), Tyler (17) and Jared (10)

Over the past several months, ArtStore4Haiti and MMRCHaiti.org have been working hard, against all odds, to help out with the monumental problems that continue to plague Haiti. Cholera, mud slides, dwindling medical supplies, starvation, the scarcity of clean water are just a few of the challenges the country faces every day. But the real challenge we face is raising funds.


I am very proud and pleased to tell all of you that a “band of brothers” in a small northern Westchester community got together to help me sell the jewelry made by the Haitian children in the orphanages we work hard to support. Tyler, Alex and Jared Cohen with the help of Mrs. Moussa, the director of the Human Rights Club of Lakeland High School, raised almost $900.00.

Because we are a very small and completely volunteer organization, this money will go far to provide food, clean water, shelter, and educational material to some of Haiti’s most desperate.

March, April and May have been extremely difficult months filled with many dark clouds for me and the people I work with. This has been our silver lining.

Tyler, Alex and Jared, thank you for making such a tremendous effort for our cause.