A quick trip back to Haiti

This past week I made my shortest trip to Haiti ever. I was in country for a record short 3 nights.  It's a long ways to travel from Washington state for such a short amount of time, however, I was able to accomplish many vitally important projects d ...

Haitians are Crying for a Change… Enough’s Enough.

Haiti is once again experiencing Nation wide protests.  The country is shut down.  Gas is only available on the black market and is currently being sold for $30-40 US dollars a GALLON.  Can you imagine living on $2 a day and then having gas ...

Soccer Promotes Life Long Learning

Over the past 3 years it has been amazing to watch the changes in the lives and development of the youth on our soccer team.  I was reminded of just how far our players have come today while I watched our newest group of boys at practice.  The boys were still living ...

Insecurity in Haiti
Haiti has changed a lot since we moved here in 2010.  Some for the better and some for the worse.  On May 4th, 2021, Senator Lambert reluctantly recommended that an armed foreign military intervention is now necessary to restore security in Haiti.  This recommendat ...

John Deere 4020 Cultivating Haiti
In 2019 we completed a major goal, building a feed mill to process our own chicken feed.  Our hope was that instead of spending thousands of dollars every month to import feed from the Dominican Republic, we could instead spend the money purchasing the main ingredient, corn, ...

Vertical Expansion – Making our own Chicken Feed
The reason we live in Haiti is NOT to farm chickens.  Chickens are simply a TOOL that we use to help improve the lives of families in our community.   "New Roots Haiti is dedicated to empowering parents to care for their families through education, employment, and ...

Update on Political Unrest
A few weeks ago we wrote a blog asking for prayers about the threat of upcoming political unrest.  Since then we have been asked many times how things are going here in Haiti.Without wide spr ...

An Exciting yet Embarrassing Announcement
I’m often amazed by the amazing work that happens here at New Roots every day.  There are so many thing going on that I struggle to keep all of our followers truly updated by just a few facebook posts a week. People often ask us ab ...

Gearing up for Political Unrest this Month
If you follow any missions or organization in Haiti, you may have already heard that many of us are gearing up for wide spread political unrest this month.  You may be wondering how we know this unrest is coming?  Who is behind it?  And how will it affect us? Let me give yo ...