Reiser Relief Haiti April Newsletter
Reiser Relief is a volunteer run non-profit organization and one of its projects is dedicated to serving the poorest of the poor in Haiti
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Reiser Relief Haiti Newsletter
1. Keep the Wheel Turning
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YOU Can Make A Difference…
eiser Relief Inc. is a nonprofit 501 (c) 3 corporation founded by Father
Bernard Reiser who has been involved with Haiti outreach programs
for over 13 years. Run entirely by volunteers, Reiser Relief is based
in Coon Rapids, Minnesota. The major goal of its mission is to help the
impoverished people of the Caribbean country of Haiti, the poorest country
in the Western Hemisphere.
The social and environmental problems are the greatest challenges the
people of Haiti are facing today. In the midst of these problems, we are
compelled to provide essential services to aid in day-to-day survival. The
services Reiser Relief provides include: fresh water, food centers, education,
and eldercare facilities. Many projects are in or near Cité Soleil; the suburb
of the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince. Reiser Relief provides assistance
focused on the basic necessities of life: Water, Food, and Education.
The number one cause for illness in Cité Soleil is the lack of clean water.
The desperately poor people cannot afford to purchase the water on their
own. Reiser Relief’s water delivery program obtains fresh water from deep
wells then trucks it to many neighborhoods in Cité Soleil. The local people
carry their life-saving water back to their homes in 5-gallon buckets. After
the devastating earthquake in January, 2010, the truck also began deliveries
Your support is the Hand of God to tent cities, clinics and orphanages. Without the water that Reiser Relief
assisting His children in their dire supplies, people cannot survive! The water truck operates six days a week
need. All of Reiser Relief operational reaching untold families in need. We live among abundance. The Haitians
workers do so on a volunteer basis live in extreme poverty. With your help, Reiser Relief can continue to save
so that 100% of your donations go thousands of lives of these extremely impoverished people! They await your
directly to the people in need. May generous response and pray for God’s abundant blessings upon you.
God bless you abundantly.
Father Reiser
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2. YOU can make life in Haiti
a little more livable!
Water Truck Delivery $2,000 / month
ÿ Weekly delivery over 4,000,000 gallons of clean water to
the poor in the slum of Cité Soleil delivering four 3,500
gallon loads of water, 6 days a week, 52 weeks per year to
thousands of people. That is the equivalent of 800,000 five
Haiti Facts: gallon buckets of water each year. Kevin McClellan is the
director of water project.
Over 50% of the people in Haiti
are unable to read or write. Education - Teachers’ Salaries $2,500 / month
With over 50% of the people in Haiti ÿ Terre Promise Primary School – 425 children. This school is
unable to read or write, children are located in Cité Soleil, a densely populated shanty town
Haiti’s greatest hope for a better future. located in Port-au-Prince. Elder Morland is the school
Yet only about half of grade school age director.
ÿ Reiser Heights School – 325 children. This preschool
children attend school. through 6th grade school is located in the mountains of
Lespinasse, 2 hours south of Port-au-Prince.
These children, who otherwise would not have been able to have
gone to school, went for free or for very little charge because of
Reiser Relief support. Additionally, in each school, Reiser Relief
provides Feed My Starving Children nutritional meal packets to the
children, which for many is their only meal during the day.
Food – Shipping cost $10,000 each
ÿ One cargo shipping container filled with meal packets.
Cost is $10,000.
2010 Reconstruction Necessities
ÿ The earthquake totally destroyed the two schools next to
Terre Promise Primary School in Cité Soleil. Reiser Relief is
trying to accommodate those children at the Terre Promise
School. The major reconstruction to Terre Promise Primary
School will cost $40,000; three other nonprofits and Reiser
Relief will fund this project.
ÿ Plans to re-roof the Reiser Heights Primary School, cost is
$10,000.
3. Reiser Relief History
B
elow is a list of our major accomplishments made possible
through faith in God and your continued support to Reiser
Relief Inc. The gratitude of the thousands Haitians helped is
beyond words.
2005. The St. Nicholas Knights of Columbus Council #12520
of New Market, Minnesota, purchased a semi-tractor and trailer
equipped with two stainless steel tanks capable of holding 3,500
gallons of water. These were shipped to Haiti.
2006. Reiser Relief Inc. collaborated with Healing Haiti, a non-
profit organization that shares a strategic alliance with Reiser
Relief. With combined generous donations, many updates to Reiser
Heights Primary School were built: a 4-room school addition, a
30,000-gallon cistern to collect clean water off the roof of the school,
a 4-stall sanitary block (concrete outhouse), and a kitchen to replace
the tin shack that was being used to prepare food for the children.
2007. Reiser Relief donations continued to support a 3,500 gallon
water truck delivering 364,000 gallons of clean water each month in
the slums of Cité Soleil. With the help of ECOsmarte Corporation,
a second 3,500 gallon water truck was added to bring clean water to
the slum of Jeremy Wharf outside of Port-au-Prince.
Reiser Relief began helping support a small orphanage in the village
of Titanyen. The Maranatha House Orphanage is a Christian based
orphanage for 30 children.
2008. Reiser Relief delivered over 4,000,000 gallons of clean
water to the poor in the slum of Cité Soleil. The water trucks have
delivered four 3,500 gallon loads of water, 6 days a week, 52 weeks
per year to thousands of people.
Reiser Relief assisted in delivering two cargo shipping containers
of 432,342 food packets. These food packets were assembled by
volunteers in the U.S. and donated by the nonprofit organization
Feed My Starving Children. For many children, the daily meal at
school is the only one they will receive. This food was distributed
to our Haiti projects located at Lespinasse, Cité Soleil, Leogonne,
Jacmel, and Titanyen.
2009. Lack of funding due to hard economic times, resulted in
using only one of the two water trucks to provide fresh drinking water.
One water truck still ran 6 days a week, 52 weeks per year to
4. thousands of people in need. Reiser Relief delivered one cargo shipping Haiti Prayer
container totaling 273,000 meals donated by Feed My Starving Children to
feed the people of Haiti. Almighty Father in heaven, surround
Reiser Relief provided for the salaries for teachers educating who educated the people of Haiti with Thy Divine
over 1,000 children. Providence. Strengthen them in their
trials, provide for their needs. May
Reiser Relief assisted with Healing Haiti in purchasing 16 acres of land
they join their sufferings to those of
to build Grace Village. The cost of the land was approximately $34,000
Jesus, God’s Son, as they walk through
and an estimated construction total cost is $236,500 for the first building
the rubble of the January earthquake.
phase. Phase one construction of Grace Village includes two orphanage
dormitories, a feeding center, a 21,000 gallon cistern, water tower and a
May they realize that they are
septic tank. The orphanage is for handicapped, deaf, abandoned, and
accompanying Jesus on the road to
orphaned children living in severe poverty.
crucifixion.
2010. January 12
Haiti was hit by a magnitude 7.0 earthquake was centered about 10 miles May the Joys of Easter unfold in
southwest of Port-au-Prince. Reiser Relief was quick to respond. their hearts, and encourage them to
persevere to heaven’s kingdom. Amen
The following day, January 13, 2010, generous donations allowed $10,000 to
be sent for water truck fuel expenses and local food purchases to assist the
earthquake victims with immediate relief.
February
Father Bernard Reiser
ÿ Reiser Relief donated $10,000 to Feed My Starving Children for
ingredients to make MannaPack-Potato nutrition packets. This
formula is used to treat children suffering from diarrhea, the number Haiti Facts
one cause of death.
• Population 9 million
ÿ Reiser Relief donated $10,000 for reconstruction of Terre
Promise Primary School in Cité Soleil. The total reconstruction effort • 1 in 8 children die before
totaling $40,000 was sponsored by four nonprofit organizations: age 5 from unclean water
Healing Haiti, Mission of Mercy, Sacred Heart Haiti Mission and
Reiser Relief. • 80% live in poverty making
less than $2 a day
March
• After the earthquake, over
ÿ Reiser Relief donated $6,000 to assist in paying for shipping a
cargo food container from Feed My Starving Children. 270,000 people perished,
and 30,000 buildings
April collapsed
ÿ $10,000 for a new roof on Reiser Heights Primary School in
Lespinasse.
ÿ New construction of a Feeding Center at Grace Village in Titanyen.
After completion, the center will feed orphans, street children All donations are tax deductible
and elderly.
Website: reiserrelief.org
Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and
opens the door, (then) I will enter his house and dine with him, and he
YOU
with me. I will give the victor the right to sit with me on my throne, as I
myself first won the victory and sit with My Father on his throne.
Make a Difference
Revelation 3:20-21