Since 2012, LCC has supported the education of students from the tent city in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

Public and private education in Haiti costs money - there is NO free education. Our Lutheran schools also charge but are less expensive than the public schools. Last year the school year was interrupted by civil unrest in Haiti and then COVID-19. Our students will be returning to school this fall with online learning, beginning September 7. The cost of online learning has increased the tuition $10; now totaling $50 per month.

COVID-19 and the need for online learning have another consequence. In the past, the children would receive a nutritious daily meal at school. With learning now being done online, those meals will no longer be provided. For many of the children, this is their one meal of the day, without it, they will go hungry.

Please consider sponsoring a child that they may have hope for their future and learn the wonders of the Lord!

Because of your generous support LCC was able to send donations to Haiti to buy food for the students and their families. The need is still great and ongoing, please prayerfully consider continuing your support. We received this picture and email from Laurent Lophane in Haiti.

Blessings to you. I want to thank all of the members of LCC and especially our donors for contributing to buy food for the parents to feed their children. May God continue blessing all of you and your families and your activities.

In Him,

Laurent Lophane

"Tell to the children the glorious deeds of the Lord, and his might, and the wonders that he has done." (Psalm 78:4)

If so moved, please also consider a donation to provide food for these children and their families.

Haiti is considered the Western Hemisphere’s poorest country and, according to the Portland Press Herald, doesn’t have any resource to fight back the coronavirus epidemic as the virus spreads inside the densely populated nation of roughly 11 million people.

According to the United Nations, some 35% of Haitians lack basic drinking water services and two-thirds have limited or no sanitation services, making it extremely difficult for people to regularly wash their hands as recommended to deter the spread of the coronavirus. In addition, there is the real risk that growing food insecurity will result in famine.

Lutheran Church Charities (LCC) continues to work through our Haiti Mission Partners to send emergency funds to Haiti during the current health crisis.

Please prayerfully consider making a monetary donation to enable Lutheran Church Charities to continue to send emergency funds to Haiti to help provide food for Haitian adults and children.

Thirty dollars will buy enough rice, oil, maggi, canned fish, spaghetti, and soup to feed one person two meals a day for three weeks.

The people in the picture are either Pastors or principals from each of the schools Haitian Lutheran Mission Project supports. Most of the teachers are only making $100 for three months of teaching. With help from LCC donors, Haitian Lutheran Mission Project hopes to be able to increase their pay to $150 each quarter for the next school year as they cannot get by on what they now earn.

Lutheran Church Charities (LCC) continues to work through our Haiti Mission Partners to send emergency funds to Haiti during the current pandemic crisis.
 
LCC was contacted by Susan Gross from Haitian Lutheran Mission Project (HLMP) to help raise funds to increase the teachers' salaries in Haiti.
 
The people in the picture are either Pastors or principals from each of the schools Haitian Lutheran Mission Project supports. Most of the teachers are only making $100 for three months of teaching. With help from LCC donors, Haitian Lutheran Mission Project hopes to be able to increase their pay to $150 each quarter for the next school year as they cannot get by on what they now earn.
 
"I want to thank those of you who continue to help the HLMP pay the 49 teachers who depend on us to feed their families. We do have to remember that God is still in control and he will not abandon those who are faithful," shares Susan.
 
Susan received the below email from our friend Lophane who made the trip to Jeremie to pay the teachers for their last three months of teaching.

"Blessings to you my sister. I am just home after my trip to Jeremie. All the principals say thank you for this miracle, because the teachers were really in need. Everything is very expensive. Thanks a lot in their name. Please thank everyone who helped to pay the teachers. Have a great day sister and may God bless you and your family. Stay safe and healthy and strong."
 
Lophane

Please prayerfully consider making a monetary donation to enable Lutheran Church Charities to provide funds for teachers' salaries in Haiti so that they are able to feed their families.

The coronavirus made its way to Haiti, considered the Western Hemisphere’s poorest country.

Lutheran Church Charities (LCC) continues to work through our Haiti Mission Partners, Ministry in Mission and Mission: Haiti to send emergency funds to Haiti during the current pandemic crisis. The funds are used to sew masks, assemble hand-washing kits, and purchase food for the most vulnerable.

Please help to save one life!

Donations to help the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere battle through COVID-19 could potentially save at the very least one life. The cost to make one mask is $1.00. The cost of a hand-washing kit is $25.
 
Thirty dollars will buy enough rice, oil, maggi, canned fish, spaghetti, and soup to feed one person two meals a day for three weeks.
 
Please prayerfully consider making a monetary donation to enable Lutheran Church Charities to continue to send emergency funds for life-saving supplies and food to Haiti during the current health crisis.

The coronavirus made its way to Haiti, considered the Western Hemisphere’s poorest country.

In the United States we can wash our hands as soap and clean water are plentiful. But in Haiti, both are scarce.

Lutheran Church Charities (LCC) continues to work through our Haiti Mission Partners, Ministry in Mission and Mission: Haiti to send emergency funds to Haiti during the current pandemic crisis. The funds are used to sew masks, assemble hand-washing kits, and purchase food for the most vulnerable.

Helen Roenfeldt, Mission: Haiti reports:
We have distributed 150 hand washing kits to seven communities or churches so far. Each kit consists of one covered five-gallon container with a spigot, five cakes of dry bleach and 20 bars of soap.

Kit recipients have been instructed in proper hand washing procedures and the need for hand washing and is responsible to set up and maintain the station for three to five families besides their own. They will maintain the container with treated water and hand out soap as necessary.
 
Each kit costs $25. We do believe that these will save lives.
 
We are continuing to distribute food as we can. While markets continue to operate, many elderly and families still cannot afford to purchase much food.
 
Thank you so very much!
 
God bless you and may you have a Blessed Holy Week and Easter,
Helen

Please help to save one life!

Donations to help the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere battle through COVID-19 could potentially save at the very least one life. The cost to make one mask is $1.00. The cost of a hand-washing kit is $25.
 
Thirty dollars will buy enough rice, oil, maggi, canned fish, spaghetti, and soup to feed one person two meals a day for three weeks.
 
Please prayerfully consider making a monetary donation to enable Lutheran Church Charities to continue to send emergency funds for life-saving supplies and food to Haiti during the current health crisis.

The coronavirus made its way to Haiti, considered the Western Hemisphere’s poorest country. The situation is dire and becoming rapidly disastrous. In the United States we can wash our hands as soap and clean water are plentiful. But in Haiti, both are scarce.
 
According to the United Nations, some 35% of Haitians lack basic drinking water services and two-thirds have limited or no sanitation services, making it extremely difficult for people to regularly wash their hands as recommended to deter the spread of the coronavirus. Medical facilities are not accessible for many people and are not equipped to handle this virus with limited or no supplies.
 
In Haiti, many work each day to afford food for that day. Without the ability to work, there may not be food. Even with means to purchase food, there often isn't food to buy. Food is most often purchased in open markets. Masses of people buy and sell at these markets. Social distancing is not an option.

Please help to save one life!

Lutheran Church Charities (LCC) continues to work through our Haiti Mission Partners, Ministry in Mission and Mission: Haiti to send emergency funds to Haiti during the current pandemic crisis.
 
Your donations will help establish clean water and soap washing stations in the market areas and churches where Haitians commonly go to worship and socialize. Pastor Marky Kessa pleads that we help save one life as he has assembled a task force to sew face masks for the masses to control the spread of the virus as best they can.

Jackie Rychel, Ministry in Mission, reports:
 
COVID-19 made its way to Haiti. Unlike most developed countries, Haiti cannot "social distance" from each other. Families of 6-10 or more people live in houses the size of an average American bedroom. They take turns sleeping, so each one can have a few hours of sleep in the bed if they even have a bed.
 
Shopping is done daily in an open market to buy food for a meal. Clean water is not readily available for drinking, let alone washing of hands. The medical system can barely support cuts and scratches so a pandemic is out of the question.
 
The President of Haiti announced to the public that everyone should wear a mask. Pastor Marky Kessa has built a task force to sew masks for the community of Jacmel, Haiti and beyond. The masks are one resource, clean water and soap are another. Donations for these items could save lives in Haiti.
 
Clean water stations will be set up in the highly populated market areas for hand washing and masks will be distributed as fast as they can be made. Buckets and soap can be distributed to remote areas where there is no water and more elderly residents.
 
Donations to help the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere battle through COVID-19 could potentially save at the very least one life. The cost to make one mask is $1.00.
 
Thirty dollars will buy enough rice, oil, maggi, canned fish, spaghetti, and soup to feed one person two meals a day for three weeks.
 
Please prayerfully consider making a monetary donation to enable Lutheran Church Charities to continue to send emergency funds for life-saving supplies and food to Haiti during the current health crisis.

Haiti is considered the Western Hemisphere’s poorest country and, according to the Portland Press Herald, doesn’t have any resource to fight back the coronavirus epidemic as the virus starts to spread inside the densely populated nation of roughly 11 million people.
 
Haitians rushed to buy food, gas, soap and face masks last Friday after the announcement of two imported cases of the coronavirus was made.
 
According to the United Nations, some 35% of Haitians lack basic drinking water services and two-thirds have limited or no sanitation services, making it extremely difficult for people to regularly wash their hands as recommended to deter the spread of the coronavirus.
 
Lutheran Church Charities (LCC) continues to work through our Haiti Mission Partners, Ministry in Mission and Mission: Haiti to send emergency funds to Haiti during the current health crisis.

Jackie Rychel, Ministry in Mission, reports:
I’m in Haiti right now waiting for American Airlines to take me home. This population cannot manage social distancing. They live in houses smaller than most of our bathrooms. They shop in very crowded open markets and ride in packed tap-taps which are converted pick-up trucks with benches in the back. Haiti just reported their first 5 COVID-19 cases. Lord have mercy!

Please prayerfully consider making a monetary donation to enable Lutheran Church Charities to continue to send emergency funds to Haiti to help provide food for Haitian adults and children.
 
Thirty dollars will buy enough rice, oil, maggi, canned fish, spaghetti, and soup to feed one person two meals a day for three weeks.