Partners
Chances for Children – Through the efforts of the Haiti Renewal Fund (haitirenewal.org), Chances for Children advances the long-term rebuilding of Haiti — its infrastructure, its government, its economy, its people — its very future.
Started by Craig and Kathi Juntunen, Chances for Children works to improve conditions for orphaned and abandoned children in Haiti. They support an orphanage in Lamardelle, Haiti and have facilitated adoptions of more than 100 Haitian orphans in the last three years. The Juntunen’s three children, Epsie, Amelec and Quinn, are adopted from Haiti.
Craig Juntunen and his adopted son, Quinn.
Every effort must be made to reunite children with their families of origin. However, children who are orphaned must be placed in adoptive homes — whether through domestic or intercountry adoption — as soon as possible to protect their best interests.
Some 380,000 orphans lived in Haiti before the earthquake, now there are surely thousands more. International adoption must be part of the solution for these children, and we will continue to work to bring down the costs and bureaucratic barriers that are preventing these children from being welcomed into loving families.
CURE International – In this initial phase that will last through the end of February, CURE will continue to arrange for short-term teams and supplies to provide first-world orthopedic surgical care to the wounded. After the immediate crisis phase is over, there will still be a great need for the expert orthopedic and spiritual care that CURE provides. CURE intends to continue directing short-term teams to Port au Prince to provide this care. In this phase, CURE doctors will work with patients in need of follow up care after amputations and provide care to those with untreated injuries requiring orthopedic care. The spiritual teams will expand to include local pastors as well.
CURE could also begin to direct more complex cases to their Santo Domingo hospital in a more stable and predictable environment. Haitian patients will come from government hospitals in Santo Domingo, through our normal hospital clinics and through referrals from the work we are doing in Port Au Prince. This will include our current presence at the HCH hospital, but may also include some clinic work throughout the city. This will be a good strategy until the border crossing becomes less open than it is currently. We estimate that it will do between 500-800 surgeries at the DR hospital during this period. The number of cases that will be done in Haiti is unknown at this time but could reach easily reach 1,000 or more in the short to mid-term.
Scott and Sally Harrison, CURE Founders
In the long-term, CURE is considering building a pediatric orthopedics hospital in Port au Prince.
Scott and Sally Harrison started CURE after seeing first-hand the overwhelming devastation experienced by disabled children and their families in Malawi. These kids suffered physically and emotionally from disfiguring birth defects. Their communities saw them as cursed, and people to be shunned.
What made the situation even more excruciating to Scott as an orthopedic surgeon was that he saw that these conditions could be treated and cured.
Stepping out in faith that God would do something amazing, they decided to start CURE International in 1996 with a goal to heal the disabled children living in the world’s poorest countries.
Water Missions International – (WMI) is a Christian, nonprofit organization that provides clean, safe water to people in developing countries and disaster areas through a variety of technologies. Their goal is to provide sustainable access to safe water so that no person should perish for want of safe drinking water.
WMI recognizes that clean water is the source of life and the foundation for health, education and viable economies. Through the generous support of individuals, churches, nonprofits and businesses, WMI is able to develop low-maintenance, self-sustaining water treatment systems for communities around the world that provide safe drinking water, wastewater management and storm water control.
Water Missions International (WMI) is addressing a problem that plagued Haiti even before the earthquake: contaminated drinking water. They have installed 9 water treatment systems in the last 10 days with 20 more in the works.
Greene Family, Water Missions International Founders
George Greene, III – Dr. Greene is responsible for providing spiritual, technical, and strategic guidance for Water Missions International. he oversees the design and implementation of WMI’s safe water solutions. He works closely with his wife and co-founder, Molly, to develop relationships with strategic partners who share the WMI vision.
George Greene, IV – The son of George III and Molly, George IV quarterbacks engineering design and development, focusing on potable water, wastewater, and storm water, as well as in-country assessment work and project implementation.
He oversees Water Missions projects in Afghanistan, Belize, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka.
Lynn and Foster Friess
Friess Family Foundation, Lynn and Foster Friess founded money management firm, Friess Associates, manager of the Brandywine Funds. Growing the firm to over $15 billion of assets under management, Foster sold the majority of his share of Friess Associates in 2001 and now focuses on his philanthropic and public policy endeavors.
In 1992, Lynn and Foster founded the Friess Family Foundation. Their inspiration flows from Galatians 6:2, “Carry one another’s burdens and in this you fulfill the law of Christ.” Additionally, Foster and the foundation strive to encourage private sector solutions to curb the intrusion of government and bureaucracyism.
