Immediate support opportunity through AmazonSmile!

Need a reason to use AmazonSmile to benefit COCINA? Institution Univers is having a teacher conference and we need your help! Support Institution Univers Teachers! Institution Univers is preparing for their first annual professional development conference this summer!! To show our support, we're inviting a few good friends to help send some school supplies to be used as prizes and swag for the teachers. Check out our Amazon wish list, and purchase anything you'd like to! Please send all purchases to: Tyler Johnson Southland Christian Church 5001 Harrodsburg Road Nicholasville, KY 40356 (859) 224-1600 Please submit your order by Friday, June 15, to ensure they have enough time to ship and be packed for transport.    Thanks so much for your support! Please share this with anyone who might be interested! Shop AmazonSmile Now Thank you for supporting COCINA! Matt White Director of Development & Sponsorships COCINA - Coalition of Children in Need Association www.HaitiCOCINA.org | www.OneChildInHaiti.org P.S. To learn how YOU can sponsor a student for just $40 a month, visit www.OneChildInHaiti.org.

Institution Univers FIRST Annual Professional Development Conference for our teachers!

Institution Univers is preparing for their first annual professional development conference this summer!! To show our support, we're inviting a few good friends to help send some school supplies to be used as prizes and incentives for the teachers.

Check out our Amazon wish list, and purchase anything you'd like to!

http://a.co/1N0PFVl

Please send all purchases to:

Tyler Johnson

Southland Christian Church

5001 Harrodsburg Road

Nicholasville, KY 40356

(859) 224-1600

Please submit your order by Friday, June 15, to ensure they have enough time to ship and be packed for transport.

Thanks so much for your support! Please share this with anyone who might be interested!

Cheers!

Joshua

Joshua K. Jennings

Haiti Country Coordinator | Global Outreach

859.224.1656 | Ouanaminthe, Haiti

@joshuakjennings

AmazonSmile...a simple way to support COCINA!

Do you shop on Amazon? Every purchase you make can help support COCINA.

How does AmazonSmile work? Go to www.Smile.amazon.com when you are going to shop and select "Coalition of Children in Need Association" as your charity (there's a drop down menu just below the search bar). A percentage of your purchase will go directly to COCINA - no additional fees are charged to you! AmazonSmile offers all of the same items, prices, and benefits of its sister website, Amazon.com, but with one distinct difference: When you shop on AmazonSmile, the AmazonSmile Foundation contributes 0.5 percent of eligible purchases to the charity of your choice, COCINA. This additional perk is a great way to give back to charities, like COCINA, effortlessly.

Shop AmazonSmile Now

Since its launch in 2013, AmazonSmile has supported nearly one million charities and has donated over $80 million. The website is identical to Amazon’s main site, and consumers can easily browse and shop for items. You can even take advantage of Prime membership benefits, sales and more. Thank you for supporting COCINA! Matt White Director of Development & Sponsorships COCINA - Coalition of Children in Need Association www.HaitiCOCINA.org | www.OneChildInHaiti.org P.S. To learn how YOU can sponsor a student for just $40 a month, visit www.OneChildInHaiti.org.

Konbit Sante...one of Univers Medical Centre "partners"

9th Annual Maine Walks with Haiti 5K Run/Walk June 10, 2018 Payson Park, Portland Walkers start 8:30a.m. Runners 9:00a.m.   This year your donation can go farther...all the way to Haiti.

Konbit Sante has received a generous offer to match your gifts up to $50,000 to help build and support a new health center for the mountain side, economically poor, Cap Haitien community of Bande du Norde.   This matching challenge can be realized when your donation is designated for this year’s Maine Walks With Haiti 5K or on our website to the “ULS Clinic”. Dr. Mesadieu, Director of ULS, seeing a young patient   For every dollar your donate through Maine Walks with Haiti 5K event or on our website, that dollar can be matched to go farther in Haiti. Register as a participant  and then create a Personal Campaign Page to share with friends and family on Facebook by creating a post with a link to your page.  This is a great way to multiply you impact! Become a Sponsor as a business or individual If you can’t participate that day in person, please consider donating to one of the already created Personal Campaign Pages below:   Team Nickerson   Team MacKinnon   Barbara Ginley   Erica Burkhart   Your Donations Go Farther, with Konbit Sante!

THANK YOU...from Institution Univers to YOU!

Thank You for 25 Years!

Institution Univers to celebrate its 25th Anniversary! What began in 1994 as a one-room kindergarten with 84 children is now a flourishing K-13 school with nearly 2,500 students, a meal program serving 3,000 kids and staff every day, and a medical clinic addressing the needs of a community of more than 100,000 residents. All of this has been made possible ONLY by an amazing God and your loving support and generosity. Please click here or on the image above to view a short message from our founder, Hugues Bastien. We will be sharing more about the 25th Anniversary happening next year, but for now please save the date Thursday, March 14, 2019 to hopefully join us in Haiti (or possibly virtually) as we both celebrate the past and look ahead to the future. We are looking forward to another 25 years and beyond! We appreciate you! Matt White Director of Development & Sponsorships COCINA - Coalition of Children in Need Association www.HaitiCOCINA.org | www.OneChildInHaiti.org P.S. To discover more and learn how YOU can sponsor a student for just $40 a month, visit www.OneChildInHaiti.org.

Jennie's Journey

JENNIE’S JOURNEY
FROM HAITI TO THE USA FOR WATER QUALITY MANAGEMENT

During Sunday School they always talked about helping others who are in need. The cholera epidemic, which killed a lot of people from water contamination, affected my choice of studying water quality management. I knew that it would help others. My school in Haiti, Institution Univers, put me in a program to come to the USA for a college education. Many people in America helped me have a scholarship for my associates degree in Water Quality Management from Red Rocks Community College (RRCC) in Lakewood, Colorado. After I finish my studies, my plan is to go back to Haiti and work with Institution Univers for as many years as I am in the US. Then, I hope to create my own business around water quality management and start helping people. I hope that I will change their lives by providing them clean and safe water to drink.

Why I’m in the USA

GETTING INVOLVED
I HAVE A 3.5 GPA & AM ...

• President of Red Rocks Global Mentors Club
  
• Vice President of the International Club
  
• Secretary of the Red Rocks Global Mentors
  

I completed my second year in the United States! I finished one year of English as a Second Language and now my first year of the Water Quality Management associate program. The college now offers a bachelor degree in this program and I hope to extend my stay to complete the bachelor’s degree. During the school year I worked in the cafeteria to earn my spending money. In Haiti this summer I will teach a class on water at IU.

On my Spring break I went to my home in Ouanaminthe, Haiti with the Christ in the Caribbean mission team. I translated for the team and taught the Haitians that received the 600 water filters how to use them. These water filters will save 700 people from dying from water contamination over 10 years.

In January 2018 one of my sponsors, Venice Presbyterian Church in Florida, invited me to visit their church and share how their scholarship money is helping me on my journey. My hosts took me to see my first alligator!

Sharing My Story

I was also invited to speak for a Rotary Club and a fundraiser for my scholarship in Colorado.

Experiencing America

Thank you to everyone who has given me scholarship money, helped with my clothes , prayed for me and made my trips possible to see the beautiful United States! God bless you!

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If you would like to donate to Jennie's education, please send a check with a note attached to the check indicating that the donation is for "GAEL JENNIE FLEURANT - College Scholarship at RRCC". 
**Please do not write her name on the check, otherwise it will void the tax deductibility for you.**
Check is to be payable to COCINA, then send the check to:
COCINA, P.O. Box 12695, Columbus, OH  43212. 
Let's get Jennie a bachelor's degree, so she can return to Ouanaminthe to begin helping her community!

Thank you and Love,
Marylee

God's opportunities for Institution Univers...

Exploring Opportunities in Haiti

Future partners in economic development? Earlier this month, a few of us from COCINA and Univers got to spend several days down in the Southwest of Haiti - Grand Goave, specifically - with the wonderful folks from Southland Christian Church and Lifeline Christian Ministries. It was a great opportunity to discuss collaboration, challenges, joys, and generally fellowship with others serving in Haiti. Prior to going down to Grand Goave, we spent a few days in Ouanaminthe with the folks from Haiti Made (www.HaitiMade.com) to explore the potential for partnering with them to develop a presence in Ouanaminthe. Haiti Made makes a variety of handmade products, including leather goods, jewelry, bags, hats, and more. They loved everything COCINA/Univers is doing in the Northeast and were excited about the opportunity to partner. While in Grand Goave, we were also able to meet with them again to see their workshop located just 10-15 minutes from where we were staying at Lifeline. We got to visit their mission-resort facility, iKondo (https://www.handsandfeetproject.org/trips/), their Grand Goave Children's Village location that's the core focus of the nonprofit Hands & Feet Project (https://www.handsandfeetproject.org/our-work). Haiti Made is a for-profit entity that was spun out of Hands & Feet about 18 months ago; it was originally an economic development component of the nonprofit entity. Employing 10,000 Haitians in Ouanaminthe. We are still early in the stages, but I also wanted to share some more exciting news. Over the last few months, COCINA and Univers have been meeting and talking with the leadership at CODEVI (the large industrial park in Ouanaminthe that is mostly known as the "Levi's plant.") It is FAR more than that and includes manufacturing facilities for almost 20 major brands like Under Armor, Banana Republic, Hanes, Champion, and more. CODEVI employs nearly 13,000 people, about 10,000 of which are Haitian - serving in roles anywhere from the manufacturing floor to management level positions. CODEVI is underway with a 6 year community development plan they're calling a "Micro Park" (see photo above) that is expected to include permanent food stands, an amphitheater, a hospital, vocational school, soccer/sports fields, open community areas, and more. Univers has several opportunities related to the school, the clinic, and the bakery. More to come on this! Please pray for everyone involved in each of these opportunities. There is great potential for partnerships that could have lasting impact on Univers, Ouanaminthe, and even the entire Northeast Department of Haiti! We are excited for the many opportunities in front of us! Matt White Director of Development & Sponsorships COCINA - Coalition of Children in Need Association www.HaitiCOCINA.org | www.OneChildInHaiti.org P.S. To discover more and learn how YOU can sponsor a student for just $40 a month, visit www.OneChildInHaiti.org.

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