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Welcome to Frontier Projects Haiti:
Future Directions
This is a private page for the ongoing development of Future Directions: the shared vision forward for projects undertaken by:
i) Frontier Projects Haiti (based in Australia), and ii) Light for Living International Ministries (based in Haiti) All projects are initiated through Light for Living International Ministries (LIFLIM) in Haiti - developed through the on-going consultation and relationship they have with the communities they serve; seeking to meet the needs and relieve the poverty and suffering of vulnerable children and families in Haiti - without regard to race, culture or religion. We partner with LIFLIM in developing relationships with these communities - to see their dreams and visions for their children and future generations, become realised. The Future Directions Projects outlined on this page reflect the ongoing dialogue between all major stakeholders. |
At present there are TWO communities that we partner with through LIFLIM,
serving vulnerable children and families:
Bouvier Mountain Community: BOUVIER SCHOOL and
Carrefour Community, Port au Prince: LOVE COMMUNITY HOME
Both these communities have indicated Future Directions Proposals.
serving vulnerable children and families:
Bouvier Mountain Community: BOUVIER SCHOOL and
Carrefour Community, Port au Prince: LOVE COMMUNITY HOME
Both these communities have indicated Future Directions Proposals.
Bouvier Community School
A SHORT HISTORY:
Bouvier Mountain Community - Bouvier Primary School. Together with LIFLIM, we have planned, trained and worked with the community to construct and staff a safe community school in the remote Bouvier mountains (where children were previously vulnerable to abduction, rape and trafficking when trekking 8 hours to Port au Prince to attend school). The school includes a teachers' apartment, Principal's Office, rooms allowing the building to convert to a community meeting place/church, water tanks for safe-drinking, kitchen, covered outdoor area with verandah and recently - solar power! We support all teachers with a monthly salary donation and seek to provide ongoing sponsorships for all children at Bouvier School. See photos and the detailed story so far, here. Future Directions: Bouvier School
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Love Community Home
A SHORT HISTORY:
Carrefour Love Community Home (formally Love Orphanage in Carrefour) is a privately-run community home under LIFLIM; for vulnerable, abandoned and orphaned children in the poorest sector of Port au Prince. This safe, small, love-filled Home is staffed by husband and wife team: Pastor Guy Vincent and Madame Vincent - and their family. We have ongoing renovation projects at Love Community Home, we seek to provide sponsorship for all children who live at or are supported through, Love Community Home - and, we seek to reunite all children with any family they may have. In this way we can then support families together - as much as is possible. See photos and the detailed story so far are here. Future Directions: Carrefour
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What a beautiful smile!
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ONE can make a difference - to that ONE child....
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There are also TWO communities devastated by the 2010 earthquake
and ravaged by systemic poverty, whos children lack
basic educational opportunities, regular meals and clean drinking water.
We are in the consultation and planning stages through LIFLIM with:
Cavaillon Community: for a MISSION BASE, SCHOOL, TRAINING CENTRE, & SCHOOL FARM
and
Carrefour Community in Port au Prince: for a MISSION BASE and TRAINING CENTRE
and ravaged by systemic poverty, whos children lack
basic educational opportunities, regular meals and clean drinking water.
We are in the consultation and planning stages through LIFLIM with:
Cavaillon Community: for a MISSION BASE, SCHOOL, TRAINING CENTRE, & SCHOOL FARM
and
Carrefour Community in Port au Prince: for a MISSION BASE and TRAINING CENTRE
Cavaillon Community
A SHORT HISTORY:
Cavaillon Community - Cavaillon is only 30 minutes drive from Les Cayes - Haiti's third-largest city, but the community and childen here have NO SCHOOL, NO MISSIONS-BASE and NO TRAINING CENTRE. Farming of the arable land is often devastated by drought due to lack of reliable or affordable irrigation methods. Children are the most vulnerable - wandering the streets and lacking in life's most basic needs: clean drinking water, food, and education. Most do not have the means to attend a school in Les Cayes. For CEO of LIFLIM - Reginald Celestin - this is his hometown. Reginald's heart breaks for his people - the next generation that languishes away in hunger, and lack of quality education and care. He has a vision: to establish a Missions Base, School, Training Centre and School Farm - to grow to self-sustainablility in regards to resources and food-production within 5 years. We plan to partner with LIFLIM and the Cavaillon community to purchase this parcel of arable land - approx 8hectares - adjacent to the river - perfectly flat for construction and very arable faming land! This land is pictured above. This land is available now for $15,000USD 
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Carrefour Community
A SHORT HISTORY:
Carrefour Community - The suburb of Carrefour is often described as a 'bedroom community' - a place to sleep - for those who work in Haiti's over-crowded capitol city of Port au Prince. This largely residential 'commune' can be described as a microcosm of all the problems of Haitian suburban society: rampant poverty, endemic unemployment, illiteracy, limited public services and schooling, sporadic power and families trying to eke out an existence amidst often unsanitary living conditions. Smoky air fills dilapidated or temporary 'tent' residences. Many of these residences do not have ongoing access to electricity, or gas for cooking. More than 50 percent of the population have never even been to high school. The vision: to establish a Missions Base and Training Centre - for vulnerable teenagers, young adults and parents - with the dream of becoming self-sustaining within 5 years. We plan to partner with LIFLIM and the local Carrefour community to purchase this parcel of level land ready to build on. This land is pictured above. This land in the heart of Carrefour is available now for only $40,000USD
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We then have a vision to partner with Veerhouse Voda - a building company based in Port au Prince. Veerhouse Voda utilise state-of-the-art, versatile construction methods that use less material, consume less energy, and allow faster construction time than traditional methods.
A combined Missions-Base, School / Training Centre could be constructed out of lightweight steel frames in both of these communities. Expanded PolyStyrene (EPS) walls and patented mortar mix which, when assembled, provides a very strong structure resistant to earthquake, hurricane, fire, flood and other natural disasters - all able to be assembled through to lock-up stage in less than 3 weeks! Check out another School built in Haiti in only 18 days: here.
The Veehouse Voda Building System features and advantages include:
- Compatible with traditional building methods including concrete, I-beam and wood
- 4 to 5 times faster than traditional building methods reducing overall labor costs
- The system is less expensive than traditional methods
- Certified hurricane resistant up to Category 4
- Earthquake resistant
- Fire tested to 1,500 degrees centigrade
- Flood resistant (no mold)
- Non caloric – no insects or rodents
- No wood needed (environmentally superior)
- Housing lifespan 70+ years
- Water purification and solar options available
- Multiple story – up to 6 stories with lightweight steel, above six stories with concrete or I-beam frame
- No heavy machinery needed
A building such as demonstrated in the video this would start at $80,000USD
Overview of Current and Future Projects
- our vision forward
