Many Hands for Haiti

Creating long-term sustainable change is not an easy task. But we not only believe it is possible, we believe it’s why we have been called to serve in this capacity. To see this change, we intentionally walk with families and communities, leading them in transformation; the old is gone and the new has come. They are creating a new story for themselves, their families, and community. Our goal is to strengthen families, building a solid foundation for them and their communities. We want to prepare them for a time when we will end our services and investment in the family and they, in turn, will need to invest in one another.

Through our love in action roadmap, we provide a foundation for lives to be transformed forever. We do this through 3 steps: rebuilding the foundation, restoring the family unit, and rebuilding the community. We implement programs to walk people through and empower them in each of these steps. For example, our First 1000 Days program helps rebuild the foundation of children's lives by providing them and their caregiver with nutrition, education, and safe homes during the first 1,000 days of life. In Haiti, we’ve reduced five-year-old stunting from 34% to 1.8% for those who have been faithful in the program.

We have quite a large reach in both the Caribbean and in the U.S. In Haiti, we have four campuses, with a yearly reach of 20,000 people per year, with this growing to seven campus by 2027. In Abaco, our organization is recently established, reaching 1,000 people a year. In the U.S. we have five for-profit thrift stores that help sustain our programming, seeing over 200,000 customer count each year. In addition, we have a large network due to our large donor database. We send U.S. IMPACT teams to the Caribbean, accounting for 300 people a year.

Since our inception in 2008, Many Hands has distributed over 10 million meals, educated over 1,200 children, provided 6,446 people with safe homes, trained 240 community leaders, and distributed 555 Personal Energy Transportation carts for those with lower limb disabilities. Daily, we walk with over 500 families on the Love in Action roadmap.

Each year, we have over 30,000 hours of volunteer time, involving people at all levels of the organization and sending us much money to programming as possible. We’ve also recycled or repurposed 1,797,590 items through our thrift stores, being good stewards of our donations.

It has also been a core principal of ours to get as much money to programming as possible. We are proud to say that our administrative cost percentage of only 11.8 percent, with our thrift store model covering most of these administrative costs.