On a recent trip to Haiti, board president Renel Noel and volunteer Andrew Hayward Smith documented House of Hope and Beraca Medical Center in photographs. Beraca Medical Center has no running water or indoor plumbing. Patients and doctors must walk 300 feet outside the hospital to use outhouses without hand washing facilities or toilet paper. This creates a tremendous risk of infectious disease in the hospital which not only affects hospital patients, it also directly affects House of Hope. Many children of House of Hope are in rehabilitation from hospital services and most receive hospital treatment. Infections including cholera can rapidly spread from the hospital to the orphanage.
Friends of Humanity is actively working to obtain funds to build a water and hygiene system that begins with a septic system. Renel has worked with the doctors to devise a septic system that will enable us to construct hospital bathrooms.
The hospital also provides power for House of Hope through its electric generator. House of Hope obtains clean water from a well installed by Friends of Humanity. Water is pumped up the hillsides during the day. When the generator is turned off at night to save fuel, a gravity system continues to deliver water to House of Hope in the evening. Fuel is extremely expensive in Haiti, so Friends of Humanity hopes to one day install a solar-powered generator. House of Hope has indoor sinks and showers…. a great achievement in addition to the community well.
Volunteers stay in a house built by Renel Noel from his own funds. This house (the pink building) is solar powered and has a modern plumbing system installed by Renel himself.
We gratefully acknowledge Sandra and Victor Fuller and the Fuller Family Foundation for their belief in this mission and for leading with a very generous donation.
We gratefully acknowledge Eli and Edy Broad and the Broad Foundation for their generous support of our work.
We thank Connie and John Cioffi and the Cioffi Foundation for their generosity.
Thank you to Neiman Marcus for their support at our recent fundraising event. Read more about it under News and Events.
Thank you to Mr. George Wilson for generously donating $1,000 and 100 bags of black beans to feed the children of House of Hope.
We thank Ms. Madana who continues to donate large amounts of food each month for House of Hope orphanage.
We are grateful to Ken and Judy Langner of Lake Stevens, WA for pledging a donation of $600 a year for three years.
We would like to thank Tina Cornely and her nonprofit, Bridging Humanity, for collecting diapers and goods for House of Hope. 
We would like to thank the Rotary Club of Miami Shores for their ongoing support. 
We are grateful to Great HealthWorks for a donation of $500 toward the Sanitation Project.
Winston Delawar Photograhy/Suzanne Delawar Studios graciously donate photography as our official photographers at all events.