hai5249 annual report.rd4 - Haiti Outreach

HOW YOU CAN PARTICIPATE
Partner with us by becoming a
regular donor
The community development work of Haiti Outreach is only
made possible by the generous donations of individuals,
foundations and religious and civic organizations. Your
donation is tax deductible, and you can be certain that your
donation will go to fund our projects in Haiti.
Invite us to make a presentation to
your religious or civic group
We will be happy to make a multimedia presentation
explaining our work, showing the conditions of Haiti and
inviting your organization to partner with us. Contact us by
e-mail or phone.
Travel with us to Haiti
We take groups of five to 16 people to Haiti two to four times a
year. These trips can be strictly educational or
educational/work related. A trip to Haiti is often
transformational; it can actually change one’s perspective about
oneself and the world in which we all live. Teenage youth are
welcome to travel with us.
Volunteer to help further our
work
We are almost entirely volunteers working in committees to
facilitate and promote the work of Haiti Outreach. We can use
your talents and skills to help create and organize:
Fundraising, Marketing/Communications, Education/School
Scholarship, Trips and Networking.
Contact us to get on our mailing
list
Many people are interested in keeping up with Haiti Outreach
activities. We send out newsletters with project updates, the
annual report, fundraising invitations, trip information and
other messages from time to time. E-mail, call or write to us to
place your name on our list.
How to contact us
Haiti Outreach
P.O. Box 27112
Minneapolis, MN 55427-0122 U.S.A.
Phone: 612-929-1122
Fax: 612-929-1122
E-mail: info@HaitiOutreach.org
www.HaitiOutreach.org
Board of Directors
Pat Benn
Scott Brink
Wally Faster
John Getsch
Kim Goers
Kevin Keenan
Jim Kirzeder
Barbara Little
Lyle Meyer
Judy Nelson
Pam Prosser
Executive Director: Dale Snyder
Personnel in Haiti
Field Director: K. Neil Van Dine
Project Manager: Jim Scheller
Project Supervisor: Roge Michel
Accountant: Appolon Elysee Paul
Animator Level One: Isaac Deslouche
Animator Level One: Adias Docteur
Mechanic: Aderbal Norvil
Assistant Mechanics: Edoyen Vall
Head Well Drillers: Eldras Francois and Anoux Faveus
Well Drillers: Rene Philusma, Geles Merissant and Dieuphene
Dorvil
Security Guards: Jacquessonne Marcellus and Acquin Garrard
Haiti Outreach is a non-profit, voluntary organization exempt
from income tax under section 501 (c) (3) of the United States
Internal Revenue Code. One hundred percent of every dollar
you give goes directly to support programs to help the Haitian
people through community-based initiatives. The board of
directors has paid for all stateside administrative expenses.
We want to thank Lecy Design and everyone else involved in the
production of this annual report for donating time, creative
energies and resources.
Haiti Outreach
2004 Annual Report
Working Together Building Communities

Haiti Outreach projects IN 2004
COMPLETED WORK:
1 Pignon – Five wells completed.
Three homes built by joint Haitian/American groups; repairs to
National School; work on road starting at Pignon towards Hinche;
constructed office/shop/headquarters building for our operations
and to teach post-secondary students (see article on page 4).
Haiti Safe Water Plus Project – Fourteen wells in collaboration with
World Vision and Minnesota Rotary Districts #5950 & #5960 (see article
on page 3).
2 Bouloum
8 Palgata
3 Kaliforne
9 Palmiste Ba
4 Kanpech
10 Rode #1 and #2
5 Kawobit
11 Savan Plat
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6 Labi #1 and #2 12 Savan Paul
7 Nan Croix 13 Savan Sucre
ongoing work with communities:
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Bohoc – water system repaired
Boukan Carre – water system completed; continuous observation
Gonaives – flood relief (see article on page 3)
Hinche – Road project with World Vision, starting in Hinche
and going toward Pignon.
La Jeune – Continued school scholarship program at Fwa
Kretyen Ecole for 130 students.
Savanette – Four spring caps built so far, for a water system
that will serve 2,000 people.
In Planning Stages with Communities:
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Gonaives – Repairing city water system and irrigation wells.
LaGonave – Digging many wells over entire island affecting
more than 40,000 people.
Mombin Crochu – Building water system to serve 2,000 people.
Nan Bay – Two spring caps built so far, for a water system that
will serve 2,000 people.
Pignon – Building additional classrooms on to the national
secondary school for 400 more students.
Pignon – Establishing Fonkoze microlending bank.
previously Completed:
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Every Haiti Outreach project strives to further our mission:
To empower the people of Haiti so they’re able to improve their quality of life, strengthen their families and
become self-sufficient.
Dear Friends,
The year 2004 was extremely difficult for Haiti. As you know, President Aristide was overthrown and the government
remains unstable. There were two major floods, one in southeast Haiti and the more deadly one in and around
Gonaives, the third-largest city.
In the midst of this, the work of Haiti Outreach continued and expanded in 2004. Here are the highlights:
• The first year partnering with World Vision and the Minnesota Rotary on the Haiti Safe Water Plus Project yielded
14 successful community wells in rural areas where no potable water previously existed (see article on page 3).
• Our water truck for well-digging was diverted to hauling daily water rations to tens of thousands of people in the
flood-stricken area of Gonaives. Country Director Neil Van Dine coordinated efforts by various NGOs (nongovernmental
organizations) to bring Gonaives’ water system back online (see article on page 3).
• We built an office/shop/headquarters building to improve coordination and efficiency (see article on page 4).
• The community of Boukan Carre completed its water system.
• Repair began on the incredibly poor road between Hinche and Pignon.
• Scholarships at the Fwa Kretien Ecole in La Jeune continued to support 130 students for the second year, as parents
performed community service.
In 2005, we will increase collaboration with other NGOs in community development work. This includes the
continuation of the Haiti Safe Water Plus Project, repair work on the road between Hinche and Pignon, additional
work with water systems in Gonaives, and possibly bringing clean and available water to one of the driest and most
desolate areas of Haiti, the island of La Gonave. We also intend to bring the Haitian microlending bank, Fonkoze, to
the Pignon area.
I cannot say enough to thank all of you who share the vision and mission of Haiti Outreach, and have donated so
generously to make this work possible. Because of you, much has been accomplished, including clean drinking water
for over 70,000 people in Haiti. I invite all of you to join us so that this amazing work can continue. All donations are
tax deductible and will enable us to continue partnering with the Haitian people as they work to improve their lives.
Dale Snyder
Executive Director
Haiti outreach SUSTAINABLE community development model
1. The request for assistance comes from the people. We do not go into a community and tell them what they need.
2. A diversified representation of the people are involved. The purpose is to have people see themselves as a whole
community, not just one family or church or other faction, and to work together toward a shared goal with benefits for
everyone.
3. The people do the organizing, the planning and all the work they have the manpower and resources to do. We are
willing to offer advice and consultation to facilitate this process.
4. The people create an economically viable maintenance program so that the project will be sustained over time.

THE COMMUNITY WATER COMMITTEE
STANDS IN FRONT OF THE NEW WELL IN
THE RURAL COMMUNITY OF PUITS DE LABY
Children pumping clean water from a
new well built as part of the safe
water plus program
Collaborating with World Vision and the
Minnesota Rotary
In 2002, Haiti Outreach and the Minnesota Rotary were essentially
unaware of each other. But in a remarkably serendipitous event some
might say was divinely guided, these neighbors were brought together by
an international relief and development organization: World Vision. All
three organizations share an interest in bringing clean water to third world
countries.
Haiti Outreach, Minnesota Rotary District #5950 (since joined by #5960)
and World Vision have now completed the first year of a three-year
contract to drill 75 new wells and rehabilitate 66 water systems in some of
the most isolated parts of Haiti. When completed, this project is expected to
bring clean water to an estimated 42,000 people.
Here’s how our collaboration came about. The Minnesota Rotary had
pledged $1 million to the organization that would most effectively develop
water resources in a poor country. Because of our past work together on
well and road projects, World Vision contacted Haiti Outreach late in 2002
to work out a joint submission, called the Haiti Safe Water Plus Project.
World Vision was awarded the grant, subcontracting much of the work to
Haiti Outreach as planned.
The amazing coincidence is that Haiti Outreach and the Minnesota Rotary
are literally in each other’s backyard – both are based in Minneapolis. Since
discovering each other, we have been in frequent communication about this
and other potential projects. Rotarians are traveling with us to Haiti to see
the work and conditions firsthand.
Partnership among non-governmental organizations is a growing trend in
third-world development, as each organization contributes its particular
expertise toward more successful projects. Haiti Outreach has been
partnering like this since our first project, the Bohoc water system, in 1998.
Our flood relief work in Gonaives is another example. We expect this
cooperation will continue and expand in our future work.
Clean water in the wake of deadly floods in Gonaives
The torrential rains of Hurricane Jeanne in mid-September and Haiti’s extreme deforestation combined for a devastating flood that
affected over 100,000 people in and around the city of Gonaives. It swept over 2,000 people to their death. It damaged or destroyed 75% of
the housing. And it put the city water system out of commission by damaging pipes and destroying two large pumps. Without city water,
people drank the muddy flood waters to survive.
Haiti Outreach immediately sent its water truck, normally used in well-drilling operations, to haul in 150,000 gallons of clean water over
the next two months. In addition, Haiti Outreach Country Director Neil Van Dine offered his assistance to the Haitian government's
potable water department.
As a result, a collaboration of four organizations – Haiti Outreach, OXFAM, IOM
(International Organization for Migration) and the Canadian government –
engaged in a $150,000 project to get the city water system back online.
Neil researched possible solutions, and came up with specifications for new pumps.
He selected two 60hp submersible pumps capable of delivering over 1,000 gpm
each into the city water system, at a cost of about $18,000 US each. IOM and
OXFAM provided funding to buy the pumps at a reduced cost from a dealer in
California. They were shipped in aboard MFI airlines, along with replacement
valves for the city water lines. The timing was tight: the last of the boxes for the
pumps came into Cap Haitian the same day the installers flew into Port au Prince.
Jim Kirzeder, Ronald Ringhand and Neil Van Dine spent the next 10 days
installing the pumps and sorting out the antiquated electrical system feeding the
pumps, which Hydro-Quebec International helped repair. They finished the
project on January 26, 2005, with the water system pumping over a million gallons
the first day.
Debris fills the streets of gonaives as flood
water recedes
A growing presence in Haiti
Proud to be a local employer
Haiti Outreach is proud of our 15 hardworking employees – 13
of them Haitian – who manage the organization, do the
community development work, drill the wells, do the
accounting, repair our vehicles and perform many other jobs.
Below we highlight two of them:
Country Director
Neil Van Dine
Words cannot
describe the amount
of commitment,
creativity and drive
Neil Van Dine
possesses. Our guiding model of sustainable community
development was derived from Neil’s years of grassroots
experience in Haiti.
Neil’s commitment to the Haitian people began when he first
visited there at 19. At age 23 in 1989, he moved to Haiti
permanently and built his own small home with no running
water and only a backyard latrine. He knew that if he was to
earn the respect and attention of the Haitian people, he had to
live as they did.
Neil started with Haiti Outreach in 1997. Before that, he drilled
wells for philanthropist Jay Lawhon, started a handyman school
and worked for the International Office of Migration. In all the
years Neil has been in Haiti, he estimates he has participated in
the digging of wells or creation of water systems affecting
300,000 people.
With his wife Mizou, Neil lives near the town of Pignon and has
three children: Venans, Ken and Lauren. Neil runs the entire
operation of Haiti Outreach in Haiti, and we are privileged to
have his tireless leadership.
Project Supervisor
Roge Michel
Five years ago, Roge
Michel was the second
employee to join Haiti
Outreach. Hired as an
“animator,” the
Haitian term for project coordinator, Roge soon earned more
responsibility as a project supervisor. Roge has training in
agriculture, communications and community development. In
the 1990s, he worked with Neil at ADRA (Adventist
Development and Relief Association). When ADRA closed its
operation in Haiti, Neil hired Roge. Ever since, he has managed
projects and developed community work with great skill.
Roge has seen many improvements achieved by our work in Haiti:
improvements in people’s wealth, school attendance and quality of
homes. Most importantly, he sees communities organizing
themselves and individuals taking greater responsibility for their
own lives and their communities. He even believes there is less
crime when communities are more active.
At 42, Roge lives in the town of Hinche with his wife Muliette and
their daughter Rossinie (13) and son Roggery (5). In his spare time,
he enjoys music, soccer and watching videos. He is pleased to
work for Haiti Outreach, and we are happy to have such a
talented and hardworking man so committed to developing
communities.
Answering a long-awaited call for
a building
In 2003, it became apparent that the growth of our community
development work required an increasing number of vehicles and
personnel. We had been operating out of Neil Van Dine’s home
and storage building, which he and his family graciously allowed.
It was long past time for us to let the Van Dines enjoy the privacy
of their own home and yard.
Haiti Outreach purchased some land near the Pignon airport and,
early in 2004, started to erect a building that should serve us for
many years. In the spring, board member Jim Kirzeder led a
Minnesota construction crew that worked alongside Haitians to
complete the basic work on the structure, including the difficult
job of putting on the roof. We dug a well and built a separate
small building to house the diesel-powered electrical generator.
The new building has four major uses:
• Storage for equipment and vehicle parts
• Vehicle repair in a large open area
• Office
• Classroom space for a future technical school
We designed the building to allow for a second floor to be added
in the future, when the need arose. By the end of 2004, that need
was already clear. The space will be used for the offices of the
Haitian microlending bank Fonkoze.
The headquarters has already proven extremely useful to the
operations of Haiti Outreach. It allows us to operate much more
efficiently as we carry out our mission.

2004 DONORS Financials
Organizational
Contributors
$30,000 and over
Sexton Foundation
$10,000 to $29,999
Getsch Family Foundation
St. Luke Presbyterian Church (Wayzata, MN)
The Pentair Foundation
$1,000 to $9,999
Carolyn Foundation
Charis Foundation
Cloquet Presbyterian Church (MN)
Dye – Knopf Fund/ Minneapolis Foundation
Keenan and Sveiven, Inc.
Master Civil and Construction Eng.
St. James Church (Aitkin, MN)
Stonehouse Designs, Inc.
The Daly Group. Inc.
Up to $999
Benedictine Sisters, St. Scholastica Monastery
(Duluth, MN)
Cade Moore Carpentry
Christ the King Church (Browerville, MN)
Council of Catholic Women (Aitkin, MN)
Courey, Kosanda & Zimmer, PA
Custom Rock International
First Lutheran Church Sunday School (Amery,
WI)
Frem’s Cabinetry
Hill Country Bookkeeping & Tax Service
KKE Architects Charitable Foundation
Klas Robinson Q.E.D., Inc.
Laketown Lutheran WELCA (Cushing, WI)
Living Palette Design, Inc.
Meadowood, Inc.
Parkwood United Presbyterian Church (Allison
Park, PA)
Preferred Adventures, Ltd.
Rehkamp Larson Architects, Inc.
Roger Anderson State Farm Insurance
Spinal Therapies, LLC
SS. Brendan and Jude Parish (Alfred, NY)
St. Cloud Dental Arts Society
T. & 3 Have Time, Inc.
Tessar Dental Centre, LLC
Trinity Ecumenical Parish (Moneta, VA)
Viereck Fireplace Sales and Service
West Immanuel Lutheran Church (Osceola,
WI)
West Immanuel Lutheran Church WELCA
(Osceola,WI)
Zinn Family Realtors
Individual Contributors
$10,000 and Over
Wally and Cecy Faster
$5,000 to $9,999
John and Adella Getsch
Kevin and Peg Keenan
Lyle and Jeanne Meyer
William and Amy Radichel
$1,000 to $4,999
Anonymous
Lane Ayres and Marion McNurlen
Frank Babka
Patricia Benn
Lindley and Constance Branson
Jay Dolejsi
Rod and Nancy Fischer
Marjorie Getsch
Kim Goers
David and Monica Goodwin
Wayne and Susan Hillestad
Jim and Rita Kirzeder
Kristin Harsh and Thomas Koop
Tom and Anne Jones
Meg Larson in memoriam to Lette Powers
Fred and Barbara Little
Steve and Marion Mayberry
Tom and Susan McGuire
William McNeely
Ray Merrill
David and Donna Nealy
Judith Nelson
John Newell
Milo Pinkerton
Joseph Plut
Pam Prosser
Tom and Patricia Sexton
Douglas Skanse
Dale Snyder
Susan Toffanetti
Jeff and Nancy Twidwell
M. M. Welshons
Sandra Zeiss
$500 to $999
Paul Becker and Elizabeth Crosby
Paul and Barbara Benn
April and Shawn Brady
Daniel and Janet Dryer
Lucille Goodwyne and Richard Lundy
Karen Larson and Jim Gresham
Kristin Harsh and Tom Koop
Scott and Mary Hasskamp-Boehne
Stephen Hedberg
Adele Lennig
Dr. Steven and Cheryl Moore
Gary and June Mundahl
Treg Schultz
Peter and Marcie Stokman
Kenneth and Judi Van Dine
Tom and Zantha Warth
$250 to $499
Padma Arunachalam and Sudhir Pardiwala
Larry and Mary Barrett
Thomas and Marianne Boyle
Scott and Linda Brink
Kevin and Kitty Croston
Dr. Susan Crutchfield
Richard and Laurie Drill-Mellum
William and Louisella Frank
Mark and Lynn Geraets
Harold Headrick
Charles and Elizabeth Heuser
Kris Hulsebus
John and Julie Ingleman
Donald and Barbara Johnson
Steven and Cheryl Moore
John Newell
Jill Osborn
Nathaniel Pearson and Suzanne Defoe
Richard and Karyn Penn
Stephen and Linda Richardson
Clarence and Dola Simonson
Dr. William Stein
Eleanor Traut
Robert and Carla Wallace
Dyke and Katie Williams
Albert and Kathleen Woodward
Paul and Ann Zimmer
$100 to $249
Henrietta Anderson
Duane and Connie Bell
Tracie Bell Jr. and Becky Thatcher-Bell
Constance Blodgett
Richard and Virginia Bopp
Matt and Linda Brennecke
June Brown
William Chadwick and Kris Jacobson
David and Judy Cline
Dr. Philip and Dorothy Crayton
Bruce Curley and Linda Rapatz
Michael Daly
Marvin and Donna Demuth
Joe Dosch and Nancy Evangelista
Dorothy Evangelista
Julie Exner and Tom Scott
Dr. Miguel and Marta Fiol
Peter Forsmark
Lenore Franzen
Brad Froslee
Gerald and Ellen Gallagher
Deirdre Garvey
Gerald and Lynne Gehling
David and Suzanne Gilbert
Jeanne Gode
Douglas and Danica Headrick
Paul Hoffinger
Russell and Roxann Hoppe
Karen Howells
Joyce Howland
David Hozza
Joann Jensen
Mike Jubert and Julie Nelson
Neal Kaufman
Tim Kenyon
Dan and Elizabeth Kirzeder
Lisa Kocharis
John LaPointe
Eric Lecy and Millie Northcott
Paul Lendobeja
Nathaniel Liedl
Cletus and Jean Liedl
John Lundblad
Leroy and Pearl Lundell
Dana and Charlotte Marcelius
John McCrady
Natalie and Mary McCrady
Kirk and Anna McFarland
Anna McHale
Sandra McMahen
Theodore and Judy Myers
May Belle Nelson
Andrea Oien
James and Judy Oubre
Beau and Barbara Pierre-Louis
Keith and Laura Poch
Roberta Pointer
Mary Jo Pouliot
Scott and Deborah Powell
Richard and Nancy Rademacher
John and Martha Richter
Doug and Vicky Roff
Tamara Rogers and Randy Schumacher
Scott and Martha Schultz
Frederick and Kathy Shideman
Roy and Winifred Slack
John and Linda Smaby
Donald Snyder
Richard Spriggs
Robert and Tamara Starkey
Robert Stewart
Tim and Vicky Sveiven
Andy and Dora May Tetzlaff
Jack and Rachel Thibault
Timothy Thoele
Robert and Carol Thomas
Lo Ann and Arthur Trask
Niki Stavrou Valens
Kathy and Weaver Weed
John and Mary Widmar
Richard Wildberger
Evan Williams
Kathlyn Wyman
Dena Zingler
Up to $ 99
Steve Abrahams
Alberta Adams
Douglas and Nancy Anderson
Dr. Orrin and Kristie Arneson
Crisy Balgard
Jenella and Jody Bellows
Barbara Brabetz
Amanda Butts
Gerald and Mary-Louise Cartledge
Robert and Patricia Channer
Teresa Clark
William and Frances Cloud
Gerald and Lynn Cox
William Cox
Lawrence Deis and Michele Hluchy
Tim and Carole DeJardin
Patricia Dickson and Edwin Swenson
John Doll
Palmer and Bernadette Drews
Mardene Eichhorn
Gary Erickson and Deborah Hutterer
Kay Erickson
Ann Evangelista
Mark and Christina Evangelista
Peter and Laura Evangelista
Peter and Therese Finlay
James and Jane Fox
Barbara Friend and Jacqueline Young
David and Susan Graham
Steve and Nancy Grossman
Hal and Sandra Guyer
The Hanson Family
Dale and Carol Hawkinson
Richard and Evelyn Headen
Sharon Hedrick-Ash
Rev. Stephen and Olga Hluchy
The Hoge Family
Juanita Huseby
Kenneth and Nancy Johnson
Helen Keenan
Austin and Paulette Kelly
Patrick and Ann Kirsch
Sally Kirwin
Krista Koch
Robert and Kathleen Kuehl
G. Patrick Lilja
Dan and Kathleen Malkovich
Gerald and Rita Manninen
Mark McFadden
Gordon and Jacqueline Nelson
Nicole Nelson
Steven and Joan Nelson
Eleanor Nordby
Lucille Osojnicki
Genevieve Palmquist
Mike and Caroline Parra
Kenneth Pauly
Gary and Diana Phelps
Martha and Greg Pomerantz
David and Janice Porter
Shawn and Jill Rasmussen
Laurence and Janet Reardon
Calvin and Joyce Schadel
Patricia Shepard
Bradley and Jennifer Slater
Loretta Smith
Mary Snyder
Alan and Bea Stoddard
John Swanson
Alan and Claire Thometz
Glen and Marlene Tschida
David and Terri Ann Van Landschoot
John Vieau
Donald Weinman
Anita Wilharm
James and Kathlyn Wyman
Alvin and Sue Zelickson
SELECTED Statement of Financial Position data 2004 2003
Assets
Cash 94,774 42,644
Pledges Receivable 23,625 63,166
Other Receivable 4,740 0
Net Property and Equipment 0 0
Total Assets 123,139 105,810
Liabilities
Current Liabilities 22,831 12,678
Net Assets
Unrestricted 100,308 93,132
Temporarily Restricted 0 0
Total Net Assets 100,308 93,132
Total Liabilities and Net Assets 123,139 105,810
SELECTED Statement of Activity data 2004 2003
support and Revenues
Donations 261,169 195,659
Education Income (Trips) 12,247 39,777
Other 19 629
Total Support and Revenues 273,435 236,065
Expenditures
Program Operating Expenses 209,924 229,195
General and Administrative Expenses 18,932 40,558
Fundraising Expenses 26,737 22,254
Educational Expenses (Trips) 10,666 24,472
Total Expenditures 266,259 316,479
Change in Net Assets 7,176 (80,414)
Haiti Outreach - in Haiti
Income 151,211
Expenses 143,492
Change in Net Assets 7,719
As we are now receiving income
directly in Haiti, we are listing that
information as well as the expenses
made there during the year.