Haiti Work Teams

Tuesday, January 17, 2017

Work Team Trip February 2016

On February 1st, 2016 a team of 6 left Cedar Rapids, Iowa enroute to the Ebenezer Glenn Orphanage in Dessalines, Haiti. While there, this team worked on the beginning of 5 new group homes that will each be a duplex type arrangement. Each home will host a surrogate Mom & Dad along with 6 to 7 orphans, ages infant to 17 years old. The new footprint for orphanages worldwide is adapting existing dormitory style housing to one of a family structure. Way more personal and meaningful for the kids to have their "own family" so to speak.

While there, this team formed and poured footings, graded sand, installed re-bar and roughed in all the plumbing for the bathrooms and kitchen, poured the cement floors over a 2 day period and began construction on the 2nd of 5 buildings. Please see the Shutterfly photo site for all the pictures. Thank you to all those who donated funds for this project. And, thanks go to all those who donated clothes for the kids, blankets, sheets, and more. Without you, we could not accomplish what was set out before us. Meci anpil means Thank you in Creole'.

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Mission Statement

Haiti Work Teams is committed to improving the quality of life for the Haitian people by offering sound construction techniques and assitance in building projects. Projects considered would be schools, clincis, hospitals, solar storage, wells, water storage, septic systems, trash containment and waste removal. In the medical arena, Haiti Work Teams will assist existing medical missions and provide speciality teams in the fields of general medicine, OB-GYN, nutrition, dentistry, and vision care.

Our Beginning in 1980

Steve and Sheila Scheib first visited Haiti in 1980 as part of a construction and medical work team. After several more trips, we were asked to fill in for missionaries, Don and Doris Peavey, while they went on furlough. So, in March of 1988 we returned with our 3 children for a one year commitment at the Ebenezer Glenn Orphange in Marchand Dessalines. The time was a mixed blessing, in that physically the time was exhausting; not enough hours in the day to get everything done that needed to be done; but spiritually, our faith was stretched in ways that only other missionaries could relate to. Growth was obtained through the trials that God allowed to come our way. Our faith grew and our sense of security was in the Savour of the World who had called us to Haiti. When the Peaveys returned the following year, we returned to the states in April of 1989. We have continued over the years to return to Haiti as often as possible.