Penn State Project Haiti

We are a club at Penn State that works hard year-round to raise funds and awareness for our partners in Haiti. Our partners include an orphanage in Hinche, the rural village of Jacsonville, and the Azil which is a home for critically ill infants and adults.

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Food

When members return from trips to Haiti something they always comment on is food. In America we have an abundance of food. We eat it when we’re happy. We eat it when we’re sad.  We eat it when we’re bored, lonely, socializing, studying, anxious, and any other time. It is so easy for us to grab a snack to mindlessly munch on while doing other tasks. In Haiti, they eat only when food is available to them. The children in the orphanage receive three meals a day. Other people outside those walls are lucky if they can get one meal a day. Visiting Haiti is a wake up call to how much we take food for granted.

Meal time should be a more solemn time where we remember and appreciate all that goes into putting a meal on the table. Many members say how they want to make small changes to their eating lifestyle. They want to prepare more family meals and make meal time a purposeful time. Cutting away distractions and only eating when necessary are things we can do to remember and live like our Haitian brothers and sisters. 

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After Sunday Mass at Maison Fortune Orphanage in Haiti

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We Are Project Haiti

Penn State Project Haiti is a club started in 1997 whose mission is to raise funds and awareness for our partners in Haiti. Our partners include Maison Fortune Orphanage in Hinche, Haiti, the Azil which is home to critically ill infants and adults, and the rural village of Jacsonville. As a club we work hard year round doing various fundraisers that not only help us raise money, but also spread the word about our brothers and sisters in Haiti while tightening our bond as a club. Some of the fundraisers are spaghetti dinners, wheelchair pushing at football games,  face painting, meatball sub sales, and more.