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Haiti Christmas 2006

United Caribbean Trust, working with Pastor Lafleur in association with Restoration Ministries Antigua, appealed to the churches and schools within Barbados to help us 'Help Haiti' this Christmas and Make Jesus Smile. Click to read Pastor's appeal

We were delighted with the response of the children on Babados who collected 200 Christmas gifts for Haiti, UCT was able to send our Haiti representative Robertha Alleyne to Haiti with Pastor Lafleur to assist with the distribution and to further establish the Child Sponsor Programme.

Seen here the children of Barbados packing boxes for the children of Haiti.

Top Right - Half Moon Primary School , above St Lucy Secondary with the South America Co-Ordinator Paulette Scantlebury, below St Silus Primary School loading up the car with their many gifts - THANK YOU ALL

United Caribbean Trust has a deep desire to be an expression of the love of Christ on earth, bringing hope to children in Haiti responding to meet the holistic needs of the child – physical, emotional and spiritual.

We want Make Jesus Smile to be much more than a shoe box ministry, receiving this gift means so much to the Haitian child. Just knowing that someone, from within the Caribbean whom they will never meet, cared. Your efforts will bring joy, hope and a little of God’s love into a desperately poor situation, remembering the true meaning of Christmas – so Make Jesus Smile this Christmas.

Taking part is so easy - by simply filling a shoe box with a range of small items suitable for a child of your chosen gender and age range, you can send a ‘box of hope’ to Haiti. CLICK to see what to put in your shoe box CLICK to learn how to pack your shoe box

Our relationship with trusted in-country partners in Haiti ensures that each box is delivered to a needy child. UCT will be working with Pastor Lafleur of Restoration Ministries Antigua and Pastor Rodrigue of Restoration Ministries Haiti as well as the team of missionaries from America and we trust our Hait CoOrdinator, Robertha Alleyne, will be able to join the team

This will be photo documented and showcased on the Haiti site.

It is our goal to also send cash donations to Africa, 150 boxes to Dominica any remaining boxes will be distributed throughout Barbados.

FACTS ABOUT CHILDREN IN HAITI:

• Only 25 percent of Haitian children have the vaccines they need to survive, making Haiti the country with the lowest vaccination rate in the world.

• The infant mortality rate in Haiti is 76 of every 1,000 live births, more than twice that of any other country in the Western Hemisphere.

• Only 53 percent of Haitian children ages 6 to 12 are enrolled in school.

• Only 14 percent of Haitian children ages 13 to 18 are enrolled in school.

• Only 38 out of 1,000 children who enter the first year of primary school finish secondary school.

CONTACT US united_caribbean@yahoo.com