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Rotary is an organization of business and professional men and women united worldwide who provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations, and help build goodwill and peace in the world.

Haiti Outreach’s mission is to collaborate with the people of Haiti to build and maintain community-initiated projects that advance their development.

We would like to invite you and other Rotary Club’s to participate in an exciting new Rotary-sponsored project that will help change the lives and futures of Haitians by building the educational opportunity for their children. It is also the beginning of a new multi-Club, multi-District collaborative effort that we hope will continue and grow for years to come.

Three Rotary Clubs have formed the initial partnership with the commitment to build a public secondary school in the Haitian town of La Victoire – an area of over 10,000 people in the Central Plateau region of the country, with no public school available beyond 6th grade. This is an area of the country where Rotary has already had very strong and sustainable success with the innovative Safe Water Plus initiative. While the cost to build this secondary school is small by U.S. standards ($200,000), yet it is more than what one Rotary Club might be able to raise on its own. This provides an excellent opportunity for many Rotary Clubs to join forces to make an incredible difference in the lives of many children in this community.

The three clubs chartering this partnership (Minneapolis City of Lakes Rotary Club, Rotary Club of Brainerd; Rotary Club of Hutchinson) have made a combined monetary commitment of $70,000+ to bring this to reality. Over the next few months we hope to raise another $125,000 across several sources, including other Rotary Clubs in districts 5950 and 5580. While the initial goal is to build the public school in La Victoire, we hope that this new partnership will prosper into other projects that can make a real difference in Haiti. Our vision is for this partnership to continue with the construction of additional schools in other Haitian towns and possibly a post-secondary technical (trade) school in the same region. The opportunities to collaborate and make a major difference in Haiti are significant and the need for our service is very real!

We ask you to consider this great opportunity to make a differece in the world.  If you are a Rotaries, we would also welcome the opportunity to attend a future meeting of your Club and provide a presentation about this project, as well as to answer any questions. 

Sincerely,

Patrick Joyce
Minneapolis City of Lakes Rotary Club

Richard Slieter
Rotary Club of Brainerd

Steve Gasser
Rotary Club of Hutchinson