Walking in the slums (City Soleil) of the poorest nation on this side of the world!The playground of City Soleil

Walking the streets of Haiti is never easy. However, the streets of City Soleil are beyond anything we had ever seen up until now. In 2004, the United Nations referred to City Soleil as “the most dangerous city in the world.” Although the crime has calmed down some since then, the filth and sickness is still rampant. Piles of garbage line the streets as high as 3 feet in some areas. Homes are constructed out of nothing but left over tin and cardboard, mostly pulled from the trash. Children run naked in the garbage, barefoot and sick. The playground for most kids is the community dump which also serves as the toilet. Hunger and starvation are very common in both adults and children. “Mud pies” are meals to some kids made of nothing but mud on the streets baked into a small cookie. Twelve of our eighteen children were born and raised in these horrific conditions before they came to live with us. Most of their homes had an average of 10-12 people living in these conditions in a one-room house, maybe 12 feet by 12 feet in dimension. With only a mother to care for them, they have also seen the crime and danger City Soleil is full of. Very few know their father because of abandonment or murder.

The playground in City Soleil where our children are from. These are their friends!

The situation is beyond anything we have ever seen or even heard of existing. But unfortunately, this is reality. This is not an exaggeration or something we have come up with: this is all truth. Now that we have lived with our children for two months, they have become like our own. They are our family. When we first saw the conditions they came from, it broke our hearts. To think of our innocent children being raised in this was just too much to handle. We knew we had to do something to help. It’s just not possible for us to take in every child in City Soleil, but we can still do something. With the addition of 4 new children in the last 10 days, we are asking you to partner with us to rescue these children. By sponsoring a child for $1 per day, we are able to provide food and housing for each child as well as medical care and daily needs. We are currently in need of 7 more partners for the children we currently have in our home. These kids need your help! By partnering with us, you are helping pull these children out of the streets and help us provide a home and a hope for their future.Will you sponsor a child today? Please visit our website www.ReachHaiti.com and sign-up on our homepage. God bless you!