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  • Golf Tournament – May 7th

    Hi everyone,

    People For Haiti is having their first Golf Tournament on May 7th (Saturday) at Fox Hollow Golf Course.  If you want to play, please email your information to Jon Nagy at jnagy1@tampabay.rr.com

    You can sign up as a team or individually!!  The price is $75/player (includes dinner).    Sign up soon, space is limited! We still have some “holes” available for Sponsorship. This is a great opportunity to advertise your business and show your support of People For Haiti – Pricing is $100 per hole.  If interested, please email Jon Nagy for details and address to mail your payments.

    If you don’t golf, but would like to show your support, please come join us!  You still can come dine with us, check out the silent auctions, and take pictures with the Tampa Bay Bucanneers Cheerleaders!

    The Tampa Bay Buccaneers Cheerleaders will be showing their support for People for Haiti by attending the dinner/silent auction following the May 7th golf tournament at Fox Hollow Golf Course.  Bring your kids and come on out to get your picture taken with the cheerleaders and get their autographs from 4:30pm-6:00pm!

    We have some exciting silent auction items too!  If you are not participating in the golf tournament, but would like to support People for Haiti by attending the dinner/silent auction, tickets can be purchased through Guiga Vieira at PeopleforHaiti@gmail.com until April 30th. Tickets are $20, with a reduced price of $10 for children under the age of 10 (Please write check to People For Haiti and mail to 2132 Flameflower Court, Trinity, FL 34655).

    Dinner includes all you can eat cheeseburgers, hot dogs and sodas.  What better way to show your support than by coming out on May 7th for People for Haiti’s inaugural golf tournament, silent auction and dinner….. and did we mention meeting Tampa Bay Buccaneers Cheerleaders???

    You will love it and your kids will love it! Help us make this event a successful one!!  We are growing fast… which is great!  All of our trips scheduled for 2011 are full, so now I need to make sure to have the funds to continue to buy the needed medicine for each trip (For each trip, PFH spends about  $5,000). So please Help Me, Help Them!
    Just one more thing… If you have a business or know someone that does, and would like to donate an item or gift card for our silent auction, please email me ASAP with the info!

    Thank you!

    Guiga

  • April team updates

    IMG_0001 Hi everyone,

    Hope you are all okay!  The internet connection here is not very good… this is why is taking me so long toIMG_2758 send updates… I am so sorry!

    After 29 bags checked in, we were ready to go!!!  Everyone in the team was excited and anxious!!

    We got to Haiti on Wed with 3 hours delay bc of airplane problem… but, like we always say, patience is the number one requirement when traveling to Haiti…. BIG (the guy at the airport) was waiting for us with his PFH shirt… and more and more people are recognizing us!!!  We made it to the orphanage and all the kids were excited to see us…. My “big boy” Keles (and other kids) have IMG_0132 chicken pox… poor baby!!IMG_0132   You can see him in this picture, with a cream to help the “bumps”!!!

    On Wednesday, the doctors got to see about 50 kids here in the orphanage…. Dr. Lonnie and Dr. Dillip did a great job putting together our new cabinet… and Anthony (AA) and Jody were busy taping everything… and me, Wendy, Meredith, and Tammy organized the meds and got ready for our 1st clinic!

    Baby Leonel is walking… OMG… that baby is soooooooooo cute….. we are trying to keep him upstairs and prevent him from getting chicken pox since there is not way we can “isolate” the kids that have it now…

    IMG_0045 Yesterday our plan was to go to PAP Orphanage (Good Samaritan)… it was awesome to see all the kids dressed and ready to see us with the clothes we donated last time…. they were excited when they saw that we had 7 extra bags with clothes…. We had about 100 kids sitting in a small waiting room, so well-behaved and ready to see the doctors.. so unbelievable!!!  Thanks to everyone that donated clothes… for sure, they all loved it!!

    We were there for about 3 hours seeing about 200 patients… at one point, a 14 year old named Clifford approached Lydia and started to speak in Spanish…. he was unbelievable… he started to explained that he speaks Spanish, French and Creole and he was looking for a sponsor to help pay for his school ($200/year) so he could graduate, learn English and “be” someone in life!  He was so well-spoken that he made a awesome impression on a lot of us… but specially on Dr. Lonnie… who approached me and said he was interested in sponsoring this boy… I made arrangements to go to his house… we met with his mom, 4 brothers (17, 16, 10, 5) and his sister (16)… it was unbelievable to see the excitement on their IMG_0111 faces, when we told them that Dr. Lonnie was going to sponsor his studies…. while there, Lydia fell in love with Christopher (the 5 yrs) and decided to be his sponsor too….. when I say that in Haiti a “child/or family” will “find you”…. people don’t understand.  PFH will make all the arrangements to send the necessary funds to send this 2 kids to school… and hope they will have a  better future!!  For sure, this family felt they won the lottery!!  Our clinic saw 200 patients and at the end of the day, as always… everyone had a smile on their face!!

    Another very cool thing to see was the expression on the kids face, when we gave them the recycle toys that was donated to us by a lady from Brazil… the kids LOVED the toys… thanks again!!!

    IMG_2766 We decided the come back earlier, considering it took us 2 hours on the way there due to truck problems… and I am glad we did… bc guess what?  Truck broke again…. and we had to get a local taxi, called “tap tap”… what an adventure… 15 of us, in a physical space for 6… LOL… we made it back to the orphanage and spent a couple of hours cleaning and organizing our new “PFH Clinic room”….

    I have to go now… will try to update more pics later… but today is the 1st time I was able to get good connection…. It has been awesome have a “TV crew” with us… cannot wait to see their videos and try to show you more … what happens in Haiti!!

    Team is getting ready to go to Herby’s Village for another clinic day… and after this, we will go visit Patricia’s house… so stay tuned for more excitement from Haiti!!

    Have a wonderful day everyone!!

    Guiga

    IMG_2776 Hi again everyone,

    I tried to send the previous update earlier today before we left, but as always, the internet connection was unavailable by the time I tried… so you are getting all at once!!  We  went to Herby’s village… it was amazing to see the amount of people that were waiting for us… we broke our record …. we saw 578 patients!!  Unbelievable…. at one point I had to get Nic (our driver and also my body guard) to go out with me and do some “crowd control”…. people were getting worried that they might not be able to see a doctor… once I guaranteed that we were going to see everyone, as long as they stayed IMG_0043 organized… they were okay!!

    I took our “crew” to Patricia’s house… it was amazing…. to see “my Haitian family”… they built an “addition” to their “house” and at least now, they don’t have to sleep in the kitchen floor…. I can not wait to see the video!!!

    Everyone was exhausted after this long day… but as always…. happy and overwhelmed by this entire experience!!!  Dinner was ready and waiting for us when we got back (thanks Bonnie- pasta was great),…. had a shower, and a good group talk….

    Just came back from downstairs… played with the kids, hugged Keles (still pretty bad chicken pox) and organized our meds for clinic tomorrow!!

    Going to bed…. good night everyone!!  Another successful trip!!

  • April Team – ready to go!

    12 more hours to go to the airport… and who is counting??  I can not tell you how anxious I am to go back to Haiti… to see my 48 kids, my friends….

    We have an awesome team… 4 doctors, 4 nurses, 1 camera man and 5 people willing to help in any way… I know it will be another awesome trip!

    Stay tune for updates!!!  Thanks so much for all your continuos support!!

    thanks!!

    Guiga Vieira

  • Water Desalination System

    I am so happy to tell everyone that the Water Desalination System that we raised money to purchase…is finally arriving in Haiti… please see the message below from David Garret of the Jacksonville Baptist Association:

    Hi Guiga, Received the water unit check last week. I also heard from Bill from WaterZone today. The water unit should be through customs by Thurs or Fri of this week. Mike Snider has been alerted to pick it up from Gonaive this weekend. I am sending your funds on down to Water Zone this week. Things are finally happening. Thanks for your patience, your kind words in your letter, and your continued committment to meet the health needs of the Haitian people. David

  • New DATES available

    Hi everyone,

    I was waiting to hear from the JBA to make sure our mission dates are okay with them.  I just got the okay from David Garrett so mark your calendar!

    2011

    April 13-19 (full)

    July 27-31 (full)

    September 14-18 (waiting List)

    November (waiting list)

    2012

    January 18-22 (4 spots open)

    March 7-11

    May 9-13

    June 27-1

    August 22-26

    Nov 7-10

    If you want to join us, please be sure to send your deposit to guarantee your spot!!!  If you have any questions, please email us at peopleforhaiti@gmail.com.

    Thanks!

    Guiga Vieira

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