MISSION STATEMENT:

Our purpose is to work with the Haitian people to discover areas of need within their community, and together with them, work to facilitate hands-on solutions, through education and needed supplies, to put into place long term answers with a Christ-centered focus. We do not desire to be a rescue organization, but instead to exchange information with the beautiful people of Haiti, learning their culture, language and customs and provide any education they need to allow them to build up their own strong communities.

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

What support is needed to continue this work?

In the last year, Fearless Warriors has established 2 ministries.


One is an immediate life saving ministry. For the cost of $75 per child, we provide starving children with the nutrition supplement, anti-biotics and anti-parasitics they need to recover from their severe nutritional deficiencies. Additionally, their parents receive child development and nutrition training to give them the information they need to make better nutritional choices for the future.















A child in the program being weighed in for the clinic day.


We were able to start our program with a grant that we were graciously supplied from Meds for Kids, to get our program off the ground. They will supply the initial 2 months of Medika Mamba to get the program going. We supply the anti-biotics, anti-parisitics, water treatment chemicals and the staff to run the clinic.

In February we started the nutritional clinic with 11 kids. This weekend will mark 6 weeks of these children being a part of the program. It appears that all but 2 of them will have reached their goal weight and will graduate from the program. The other 2 will continue until they have fully recovered. In April we will start a new group of children in this program. The number of children depends on the funding support we can raise. Would you consider donating $75 to support one child through this entire program?


The second is a partnership ministry to provide education, tools and supplies for the families to develop an income to support themselves and their communities into the future. A "teach them to fish" ministry. For only $42 per family, you can provide all the supplies a family need to become self-sufficient farmers as they grow crops to provide a source of food for their families as well as have products to sell in the marketplace.

Right now we are working to provide peanuts for 60 families in the community. Peanuts are such a valuable crop! It provides a much needed source of protein for diets that are often high in sugar and carbohydrates, which will keep a belly full and give them instant energy, but do not induce growing and thriving. So, the farmers can use the peanuts to feed their family and also sell them in the marketplace. George Washington Carver would be so proud!

The best aspect of this great program is that they can also sell these peanuts to Meds for Kids, the company that makes the Medika Mamba supplement that is used in the clinic to treat the malnourished children in their own community! This product is produced in Haiti, by Haitians, using Haitian grown peanuts!!

This is an amazing way to partner with this community, not to rescue it. We come along side these families and provide the supplies, tools, education and help they need to become self sufficient.


We can also continue adding farmers to the farming program to grow new crops and provide education to meet future needs. Donating just $45 will support one farmer. You will be providing a career for a family! Can you believe it? For $45!

You may make a donation via the Paypal link on the right
or by check, which can be made out to
Fearless Warriors for Haiti and mailed to:
3349 Carbineer Drive, Belvidere, Il 61008.
Just put which ministry you would like your funds to support in the note section.

We appreciate you donations and are also searching for much needed monthly sponsors to keep some financial stability in the funding of these programs. Please consider if you are able to do even a small monthly sponsorship to make this program a continuing success.

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

See what an awesome impact a gift of $42 can make


We met the full amount of our matching grant this weekend! So exciting. That is the GREAT news...so far we have raised $645, plus the $500 grant match brings us up to $1145 as of today! This is awesome!

We are still short of our $2500 goal by $1355. I really have every faith that we will reach this goal this week and be able to provide seeds and training for all the farmers on the list.

There are 60 families who's lives can be changed by this project! It breaks down to a cost of $42 per family.


Can you help us one family at a time?


If 32 people could commit to helping 1 family, we would meet our goal of equipping 60 families with the supplies and education to start a new hope for their future. We need purchase the seed before the end of the month or the market cost will go up. This blog is set up with a Paypal link to make donating a breeze. Please feel free to share this post give someone the opportunity to hear about the awesome impact a gift of $42 can make.


Friday, March 4, 2011

Meds & Food for Kids Documentary



This video shows all great aspects of this wonderful program that we are supporting in La Victiore! 11 kids accepted last week!! Pics of these beautiful babies will be up soon so you can see their little faces. Please join us in pray for them and their families.

Nutrition Clinic in La Victoire...


Well, there is a lot of info missing between how we chose our name and where we are today, but I will need to fill that in as time goes by.
Today the important info is what God is doing in La Victoire and how he is using us to be a part of it!
This is a picture of some of the families that came to the nutrition training a couple of weeks ago, when we announced the opening of a Medika Mamba Nutrition clinic dedicated to helping the families in the La Victoire area eliminate malnutrition from their children. The reverence that this momma prayed with is something I will never forget!
There are several aspect of this. The 1st is training about how to make more nutritious food, even when you only have rice, or beans, or corn. Our nurse Ineve explained how to enrich it. We talked about combining food between 2 families to had an element you may not have and they may not have. They have, many times, never heard what is necessary to keep their babies and children healthy. Even if they only have 1 meal a day to feed them. Sometime less than that.

The next aspect is a nutritional supplement called Medika Mamba. It is a peanut butter based product that requires no refrigeration, no cooking, no special storage at all! It is a ready to use product that the family takes home to give to their child. There are very specific guidelines to the program. It is for those children that truly need a boost to get through a sever bought of malnutrition. See this previous post for more info on the Medika Mamba program. http://fearlesswarriorsforhaiti.blogspot.com/2011/03/meds-food-for-kids-documentary.html

The 3rd aspect to this program, as the video explains if you have already watched it, is to train and equip farmers to grow peanuts. They will receive education for farming, the seeds they need to start their crops and would have, not only a crop for market and food at the end of the season, but also the ability to sell the peanuts back to Meds for Kids to produce the Medika Mamba. This is such an incredible opportunity for the town as they are able to learn a trade, provide for their families and see their hard work go to support the nutrition of the entire community!

We are currently working to raise $2500 to train and equip 60 farmers from the La Victoire area. 10 farmers from each of the 6 churches in the town. The planting season start the end of March. So we are really working to come up with these funds in the next 2 weeks.

We have a generous matching grant being promised for the next 2 weeks to help to get up there!
Each dollar, up to $500, that is donated in the next 2 weeks will be matched. It's the best kind of 2-for-1 offer!

Please join us in making this a reality for these 60 families. For under $42 a family, it will change their lives! That is close to what is costs our family to eat out 1 night. Amazing what a small amount can do!

We have just set up a Paypal account to more convenient, or you are to send a check to:
Fearless Warriors (in a Picket Fence) Ministry to Haiti
3349 Carbineer Drive
Belvidere, Il 61008