Christian Social Services

Compassion Rockwood
Rockwood, OR, Tel: (503) 492-2960
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Compassion Rockwood is a free health clinic that is organized by a collaborative effort of churches and other community partners. The model of a united effort to provide health care has spread throughout portland, and the vision is that it wont stop there.

Fort Vancouver Seafarers' Center
PO Box 1102
Vancouver, WA, 98666
Tel: (360) 694-9300
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Each year approximately 13,000 seafarers, mainly from the Philippines, India and China, dock at the Port of Vancouver. Most foreign seafarers are poorly paid and must be away from their families for 9-10 months at a time. The Fort Vancouver Seafarers Center attempts to make life a little better for the seafarers by providing phone cards and a bank of telephones for them to use to keep in contact with their families. Ships visitors from the center take the seafarers around the Portland-Vancouver area to help them shop for personal items needed on their next voyage. Donated clothing, magazines and books are free for the taking. A chapel with multi-language Bibles is located within the Seafarers Center. The word of God is shared by making free Bibles available to all seafarers.

Kairos Prison Ministry
6903 University Blvd.
Winter Park, FL, 32792
Tel: (407) 629-4948
Fax: (407) 629-2668
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Kairos Prison Ministry International, Inc. is the parent organization of a body of ministries addressing the spiritual needs of incarcerated men, women and children, to their families and to those who work in the prison environment. Kairos sprang from the Cursillo movement and is supported by volunteers from Cursillo and those other movements that consider Cursillo as their root. Although a separate ministry, Kairos has received the blessing and encouragement of 4th Day movements such as Cursillo, National Episcopal Cursillo, Presbyterian Cursillo, Lutheran Via de Cristo, The Upper Room's Walk To Emmaus, and independently ecumenical Tres Dias. Kairos Prison Ministry is a ministry rather than a movement.

New Hope Farms
PO Box 89
40 New Hope Farms Rd, Goldendale, WA, 98620
Tel: (509) 773-3939
Fax: (509) 773-4759
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New Hope is a place where developmentally disabled adults live, learn, work and play with loving, ca(...)

PRISM
730 Florida Avenue South
Golden Valley, MN, 55426
Tel: (763) 529-1350
Fax: (763) 529-1454
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People Responding In Social Ministry is a community-funded social service agency that provides families in need with food, financial assistance, transportation and other services in times of financial hardships.

Ministries - Christian

Bible League
PO Box 28000
Chicago, IL, 60628
Tel: (866) 825-4636
Fax: (708) 367-8600
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Bible League provides the Scriptures that people around the world need. But we don’t stop there—we make sure those Scriptures are used for evangelism, discipleship, and church growth. That’s what makes Bible League unique.

Hear the Cry - Solid Rock
10500 SW Nimbus, Bldg. T
Portland, OR, 97223
Tel: (503) 620-1120
Fax: (503) 639-7301
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Hear The Cry is Solid Rock's ministry to the orphan, the widow and the poor. Hear The Cry equips and partners with ministries in India, Zambia, Zimbabwe and in our local community to bring the love of Jesus Christ to the orphan and widow. Through short-term missions teams, prayer gatherings, financial support, and the people of Solid Rock, God is bringing hope to a lost and dying world.

Young Life
420 N Cascade Ave
Colorado Springs, CO, 80903
Tel: (877) 438-9572
Fax: (719) 381-1750
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The vision was born in 1938 when Jim Rayburn, a young youth leader in Texas, was challenged by his senior minister to focus on the local high school and pioneer a path to connect with non-churched kids. After exploring several possibilities, Rayburn decided that the best setting for the proclamation of the Gospel was at a Young Life club, held in the home of one of the kids. Club involved lively singing, a skit and a short talk about Jesus Christ. He believed every kid had a right to hear the message of Jesus Christ and decide how to respond to the Gospel. Young Life leaders provide kids with factual information for making good decisions. Leaders work hard to provide teenagers with the basic facts concerning Jesus Christ. The information is presented in a non-threatening manner in terms that kids can understand. Young Life leaders have the highest regards and respect for a young person's right to choose where matters of faith are concerned.

Development and Relief Services

ALARM
P.O. Box 740337
Dallas, TX, 75374
Tel: (972) 671-8522
Alt. Tel: (972) 437-1350
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ALARM is an African-led ministry founded by our dear friend and brother, Celestin Musekura, empowering African pastors and other leaders to bring hope and transformation to their communities. ALARM works in eight countries in East Africa, and specializes in reconciliation work in areas of conflict and violence, pastoral training, micro-loan development and vocational training for those afflicted by the aftermath of war.

Chinmaya Organization for Rural Dvelopment
206 Locke Street South
Hamilton, ON, L8P 4B4
Tel: (705) 286-3984
Alt. Tel: (905) 570-0440
Fax: (905) 570-0545
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The project is an endeavour to provide the basic health services to remote villages. The project covers 278 villages in the Kangra district of India. The programme annually reaches approximately 20,000 people directly and 15,00,000 of them indirectly, in the area. The overall aim of the project is to initiate the empowerment process for women in the project area through comprehensive development. Thus, it is working towards increasing women's capacity in effective participation in their own development.

Doctors Without Borders
333 Seventh Avenue
2nd Floor, New York, NY, 10001
Tel: (888) 392-0392
Fax: (212) 679-7016
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Delivers emergency aid to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, natural or man-made disasters, or exclusion from helth care in more than 70 countries.

Good Samaritan Ministries
7929 SW Cirrus Dr.
Bldg 23, Beaverton, OR, 97008
Tel: (503) 644-2339
Fax: (503) 646-8898
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For over 30 years GSM has partnered with others who have the desire for demonstrating relentless, unconditional love and a Samaritan heart. Each country works with USA 'Satellite Support' (fundraising/oversight) to ensure quality counseling, education, and emergency aid are all provided without fees. GSM touches thousands with the hope that each person will 'go and do likewise'.

Heifer International
1 World Avenue
Little Rock, AR, 72202
Tel: (800) 422-0474
Fax: (501) 907-2602
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Heifer International's mission is to end hunger and poverty and to care for the earth. For 60 years, Heifer has transformed the lives of millions of families by giving them gifts of cows, goats and other livestock. Along with the animals, families receive extensive training in animal care and learn environmentally friendly agricultural practices. Each gift of livestock starts a chain reaction of self-reliance that spreads throughout the entire communities because each family who receives an animal agrees to "pass on the gift" by sharing the offspring of their animal with others in need.

Lahash
107 NE 45th Ave
Portland, OR, 97213
Tel: (503) 348-7265
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Lahash International was created to encourage grassroots movements of compassion. providing relief for those in desperate situations in East Africa. Lahash partners with African-led grassroots ministries in East Africa, enabling very direct, practical and caring distribution of assistance. Currently they focus on orphans, widows and families affected by war and the AIDS pandemic. Their goal is to enable multiple bridges between communities in the US and communities in East Africa.

Living Water International
PO Box 35496
Houston, TX, 77235-5496
Tel: (877) 594-4426
Alt. Tel: (281) 207-7800
Fax: (281) 207-7845
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Living Water International is an interdenominational Christian ministry committed to helping communities in the developing world acquire safe drinking water. Today, LWI maintains ongoing operations in 25 countries, and has completed more than 4200 water solutions which serve 6 million people every day. LWI works alongside national church planters, medical organizations, and other ministries--providing water solutions for communiites, hospitals, schools and orphanages. Living Water teams meet physical needs through the provision of clean water and spiritual needs through the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Mennonite Central Committee
21 South 12th St.
PO Box 500, Akron, PA, 17501-0500
Tel: (888) 563-4676
Alt. Tel: (717) 859-1151
Fax: (717) 859-3875
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MCC seeks to demonstrate God's love by working among people suffering from poverty, conflict, oppression and natural disaster. MCC serves as a channel for interchange by building mutually transformative relationships. MCC strives for peace, justice and the dignity of all people by sharing our experiences, resources and faith in Jesus Christ.

Oxfam America
226 Causeway St., 5th Floor
Boston, MA, 02114
Tel: (800) 776-9326
Fax: (617) 728-2594
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Oxfam International is a confederation of 13 organizations working together with over 3,000 partners(...)

Partners International
1117 E Westview Ct.
Spokane, WA, 99218
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Partners International is a global ministry that works to create and grow communities of Christian witness in partnership with God’s people in the least Christian regions of the world.

Remote Area Medical Volunteer Corps
1834 Beech Street
Knoxville, TN, 37920
Tel: (865) 579-1530
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The Remote Area Medical® (RAM) Volunteer Corps is a non-profit, volunteer, airborne relief corps ded(...)

Seva
1786 Fifth Street
Berkeley, CA, 94710
Tel: (877) 764-7382
Alt. Tel: (510) 845-7382
Fax: (510) 854-7410
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Working in ten countries, Seva Foundation provides financial resources and technical expertise to help communities build sustainable solutions to poverty and disease. The projects evolve, but our approach is always the same - we build partnerships that respect the cultures and traditional wisdom of the people we serve, and we focus on solutions that can be sustained by local communities.

These Numbers Have Faces
PO Box 3402
Portland, OR, 97208
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These Numbers Have Faces exists to partner with grassroots initiatives in post-conflict regions, advocate for social transformation, and change the way we interact with those in need. They aim to do this through a framework that moves beyond statistics which are important, yet often overwhelming and paralyzing, by identifying persons and their stories in an effort to speak to the larger issues of our world, emphasizing relationship-building with a particular initiative and community. These Numbers is particularly focused on a dynamic, soccer-based initiative in South Africa.

World Vision
34834 Weyerhaeuser Way So.
Federal Way, WA, 98001
Tel: (888) 511-6548
Alt. Tel: (888) 511-6593
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World Vision is a Christian humanitarian organization dedicated to working with children, families and their communities worldwide to reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty and injustice.

Education

Portland Schools Foundation
905 NW 12th Ave.
Portland, OR, 97209
Tel: (503) 234-5404
Fax: (503) 234-5402
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The Portland Schools Foundation is an independent, community-based organization mobilized to ensure a first-rate education for every child, in every public school, in every Portland neighborhood.

Stimulate Minds!
CA, About +/-
California is cutting more than $4.5 billion from K-12 education. This month they've laid off over 10,000 teachers. Our kids deserve better! Let's show our government we believe in stimulating our economy by stimulating the minds of the future. Use your tax rebate to help our public schools.

Family and Childrens Services

Big Brothers Big Sisters Columbia Northwest
1827 NE 44th Ave.
Portland, OR, 97213
Tel: (503) 249-4859
Fax: (503) 249-5777
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Big Brothers Big Sisters helps children reach their potential through professionally supported, one-to-one relationships that have measurable impacts.

Daybreak Youth Services
11711 E Sprague Ave.
Suite D-4, Spokane, WA, 99206
Tel: (509) 444-7033 x103
Alt. Tel: (360) 750-9588
Fax: (509) 927-1851
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Daybreak has been successfully treating teens for drug and alcohol abuse for over twenty years. We are committed to serving teens and their families, and have become an innovative leader in the youth drug and alcohol treatment field.

Doulas Care
722 Brooks St.
Ann Arbor, MI, 48103
Tel: (866) 845-0003
Alt. Tel: (734) 332-8070
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This organization provides support for low-income women during their pregancy and immediately post-partum period. It was part of a larger organization, but is now a stand-along 501(c)3. For $300, you can ensure that a low-income mother-to-be is provide practical, emotional, and logistical support by a trained doula.

Early Childhood Mental Health Program
4101 Macdonald Avenue
Richmond, CA, 94805
Tel: (510) 412-9200
Fax: (510) 412-9248
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Early Childhood Mental Health Program fosters healthy emotional, social, and psychological development in children aged birth to six years, helps them succeed in school, and gives them the tools to reach their full potential.

Healthy Kids Mendocino
1120 South Dora St.
Ukiah, CA, 95482
Tel: (707) 463-5437
Fax: (707) 472-2735
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The mission of Healthy Kids Mendocino is to achieve universal health insurance coverage for every child in Mendocino County, California. It's a wonderful opportunity to "think globally, act locally" by making sure that children have access to the health care they need and deserve. Join us!

Homeless Prenatal Program
2500 18th St.
San Francisco, CA, 94110
Tel: (415) 546-6756
Fax: (415) 546-6778
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Seizing the motivating opportunity created by pregnancy and parenthood, HPP joins with families to help them recognize their strengths and trust in their capacity to transform their lives to break the cycle of homelessness and poverty.

Pregnancy Resource Center of Vancouver
2128 E. Mill Plain Blvd.
Vancouver, WA, 98661
Tel: (360) 699-5433
Fax: 360-699-2284
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Since 1983 the mission of the Care Net Pregnancy Resource Center of Vancouver has remained the same: to mee the needs of people in crisis.

Relief Nursery
1720 West 25th Ave.
Eugene, OR, 97405
Tel: (541) 343-9706
Alt. Tel: (541) 682-6453
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For over 30 years, whether you are talking with Relief Nursery families, staff, or volunteers, the consistent message you will hear is one of passion and commitment to keeping children safe from abuse and neglect. At the core of the Relief Nursery is the belief in focusing on, and building upon, the strength of each individual family. A wide array of support services are provided; always with a respect for the diversity of the families we serve. Research-based principles are embedded throughout our services while recognizing the changing needs of families. From crisis response, to therapeutic classrooms, to alcohol and drug recovery support, our staff work to keep children in our community safe from abuse and neglect. Through our state, national and international replication efforts Relief Nursery is a leader in child abuse prevention.

Food Banks

Northwest Harvest
PO Box 12272
Seattle, WA, 98102
Tel: (800) 722-6924
Alt. Tel: (206) 625-0755
Fax: (216) 267-2179
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Northwest Harvest, the only statewide hunger relief agency in Washington State, provides a proven, successful, and cost-effective model for getting nutritious food to those who need it.

Oregon Food Bank
P.O. Box 55370
Portland, OR, 97238-5370
Tel: (503) 282-0555
Fax: (503) 282-0922
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Oregon Food Bank works to eliminate hunger and its root causes ... because no one should be hungry.

Human Service Organizations

Arc of Clark County
PO Box 2608
Vancouver, WA, 98668
Tel: (360) 354-1562
Fax: (360) 896-7382
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Providing services, support and advocacy to people with developmental disabilties in Clark County since 1936.

Chess For Success
2701 NW Vaughn
Portland, OR, 97210
Tel: (800) 285-7660
Alt. Tel: (503) 295-1230
Fax: (503) 295-4098
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Chess for Success is not a chess program; it is an educational program that uses chess to teach children critical thinking skills. This year Chess for Success is serving 2780 children in 73 low-income elementary and middle schools. Research proves that children in the program improve their reading and math scores. There is no charge to the children or the schools.

People Helping People
PO Box 1093
Cornelius, OR, 97113
Tel: (503) 875-6918
Fax: (503) 430-7504
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People Helping People is evolving an innovative approach to serving adults with disabilities whose needs are not being met by existing service programs. The program is a combination of a) providing assistance and training in navigating the existing social service systems, b) providing direct services to meet needs when they are not readily available through the existing systems, and c) ensuring that service recipients are meaningfully rooted and grounded in the communities in which they live.

Store to Door of Oregon
2145 NW Overton St.
Portland, OR, 97210
Tel: (503) 413-8223
Fax: (503) 413-8224
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Store to Door, a non-profit agency, facilitates independent living for Portland area seniors and people with disabilities by providing a low-cost, personalized grocery shopping and delivery service.

United Way of Clatsop County
PO Box 775
Astoria, OR, 97103
Tel: (503) 325-1961
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Providing support to many health and human service organizations in Clatsop County. They help support community services in an area with limited resources and high needs.

Wiconi International
PO Box 5246
Vancouver, WA, 98668
Tel: (360) 546-1867
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At Wiconi International, we are working and praying to find better ways to support and empower people to find true genuine hope and confidence for a better tomorrow. It is a freedom that affirms, embraces, and respects the unique and God-given cultural realities of our people, not rejecting or demonizing them.

Humanitarian Relief and Advocacy

Bread for the World
50 F Street, NW, Suite 500
Washington, DC, 20001
Tel: (800) 822-7323
Alt. Tel: (202) 639-9400
Fax: (202) 639-9401
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Bread for the World is a collective Christian voice urging our nation’s decision makers to end hunger at home and abroad.

International Justice Mission
PO Box 58147
Washington, DC, 20037
Tel: (703) 465-5495
Fax: (703) 465-5499
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International Justice Mission is a human rights agency that secures justice for victims of slavery, sexual exploitation and other forms of violent oppression. IJM lawyers, investigators and aftercare professionals work with local officials to ensure immediate victim rescue and aftercare, to prosecute perpetrators and to promote functioning public justice systems.

Serving the Homeless

Family Bridge
P.O. Box 4073
183 SE 6th Avenue, Hillsboro, OR, 97123
Tel: (503) 844-2919
Fax: (503) 844-6329
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Providing shelter services, career and housing referrals, temporary housing, food and hope to families with children in Washington County.

Friends of the Carpenter
PO Box 65358
1600 W 20th St., Vancouver, WA, 98665
Tel: (360) 750-4752
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Friends of the Carpenter is a ministry of relationships whose mission is to build positive and productive relationships between homeless persons with sincere, stable volunteers from communities of faith. The goal is to empower persons, both those who are poor and those who have means and the desire to help, to find ways to build relational bridges of trust, hope, encouragement, accountability and support. The desired result is for the poor who sincerely wish and will respect another chance, to improve their stability, self-respect and interdependency in a community of integrity.

Lebanon Emergency Shelter Services
PO Box 695
Lebanon, OR, 97355
Tel: (541) 730-9027
Alt. Tel: (541) 223-2289
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We are helping homeless people find a place to live, shake addictions, and get a job. Our goal is to help them move out of chronic homelessness by putting them in housing where they can get supportive services like medical care, mental health guidance, financial management training, job training, and basic education.

My Father's House
2425 NE Division St.
Gresham, OR, 97030
Tel: (503) 492-3046
Fax: (503) 491-4608
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My Father's House seeks to foster independence and restoration in homeless families by equipping them with the life skills necessary to become productive members of their community.

Open House Ministries
900 W 12th St.
Vancouver, WA, 98666
Tel: (360) 737-0300
Fax: (360) 737-3157
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Our primary purpose is to enable homeless families to regain their independence. We will admit only those families that agree to participate in a program designed to assist them resolve their homeless situation. We will allow them to remain only as long as they continue to make steady progress toward that goal.

Portland Rescue Mission
700 NE Multnomah, Suite 400
Portland, OR, 97232
Tel: (503) 227-0421
Fax: (503) 227-1126
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Founded in 1949 by John Van Diest Sr., the Mission opened its doors as the "John 3:16 Mission." From its earliest days of ministry, the words of that verse of salvation and hope have been at the heart and soul of our motivation for service... For God so loved the world that He gave His only son. Since then the Portland Rescue Mission has had a tireless commitment to breaking the cycle of homelessness.

Share Vancouver
P. O. Box 1209
Vancouver, WA, 98666-1209
Tel: (360) 695-7658
Fax: (360) 993-2715
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Share provides services to individuals and families and prohibits discrimination in all its programs and activities on the basis of race, color, national origin, gender, religion, age, economic status, disability, political beliefs, sexual orientation and marital or family status.

The Father's Heart Street Ministry
Portland, OR, Tel: (503) 722-9780
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The Father's Heart Street Ministry GOES OUT (Luke 10:37) to minister to these people where they are at. One of the ways we accomplish this is by distributing much needed items for every day warmth and survival--things we take for granted--blankets, sleeping bags, coats, shoes, pants, socks, hats, gloves, hygiene kits, backpacks, shirts and more. We take them directly to the streets and distribute them to anyone who has a need. It doesn't matter who they are, male or female, young or old, or of any particular race or religion. Sometimes they are found on the streets, in a shelter or in a recovery home. Sometimes they are simply poor and in great need.

Single Country Support

Corazón
P.O. Box 2669
Laguna Hills, CA, 92654
Tel: (949) 830-7494
Fax: (949) 830-7429
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It’s a heartfelt name for a non-profit, almost entirely volunteer organization that has offered shelter, education and community to thousands of our neighbors in northern Baja California for more than 25 years.

Haiti Foundation of Hope
PO Box 61941
Vancouver, WA, 98666
Tel: (360) 993-0974
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Haiti Foundation of Hope is a Christian organization addressing the physical, emotional and spritual needs of the people in the impoverished and underserved rural communities of northern Haiti.

Hope for Haiti Inc.
1042 6th Ave. North
Naples, FL, 34102
Tel: (239) 434-7183
Fax: (239) 434-2839
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Hope For Haiti (HFH) is dedicated to improving the lives of the poorest of the poor in the Western Hemisphere. Hope For Haiti's main focus is to provide opportunities for children, whether through education, health care or housing, to better equip them to extricate themselves from the desperate throes of poverty.

Voice of Haiti
1603 19th Street
NW #42, Washington, D., 20009
Tel: (202) 319-8913
Alt. Tel: (509) 445-1653
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Haiti is one of the most vibrant countries on the planet, rich in both culture and natural beauty. Yet Haiti remains the poorest country in the western hemisphere, with the highest infant mortality rate, and lowest life expectancy. The average daily income is about $1/US, and access to running water and sanitation facilities are virtually non-existent.