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Smarties Supporting Smarties: Katherine And Rae Take on Haiti

The ACFFC $10,000 Challenge

You know those kids I talk about all the time?  Yes, those kids from Art Creation Foundation for Children in Haiti.  Well, they really need your help right now.  In fact they have never needed your help more than they do right now.  We are literally fighting for survival. An interesting thing happens when you scream help!  The people that have your back come running.  And well for us, right now,…

AWESOME NEWS !!!! 

WE DID IT!!! We can fix Bruno’s house!

and by we, I mean YOU awesome people, thank you SO much, for spreading the word and doing this big thing for my friend. This is so great. He’s gonna be so stoked. He’s been so down lately that it’s really gonna brighten his day.

Men anpil, chay pa lou. Many hands make the load lighter. Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

this is my friend Bruno:

Bruno is one of the best humans I know. He’s a soft-spoken sweetie-pie, he’s hilarious, and he’s an incredible artist. He has planned an entire screenplay about a Haitian voodoo vampire. I love this dude.

Like a lot of low-income people in Jacmel, Bruno lives in a plywood home. He has tricked it out with his art, and magazine cut-outs and newspaper clippings and made it his own. But it’s still plywood, and eventually plywood rots.

Today Bruno came to ask for me for help because his house is rotting. We took a carpenter out to his place and it will literally only cost $160 to repair his house!!! That’s it! And then his house is safe from the rain and sun! If I had the money I’d pay it all in a heartbeat, but I’m a volunteer and haven’t earned a paycheck in several months. 

Let’s fix my Bruno’s house! I’ll kick in $50! Please help! My friend deserves to live in dignity!

Moving Up: Big Changes For The ACFFC in Jacmel, Haiti!

Random Acts first partnered with the Art Creation Foundation for Children (ACFFC) in 2011. By 2012, we had learned that the nonprofit and children’s center would likely lose its rented home in Jacmel, Haiti due to the building’s failing structural integrity and safety concerns and decided to lend a hand where we would. At the time, however, we couldn’t have guessed that a commitment to providing a down-payment on a new building would turn into a nearly four-year (and counting) unbreakable friendship.

Today, we’re happy to announce that the ACFFC—which was originally founded back in 2003… (that’s a lot of years and a lot of work!)— has moved on to a brand new space, for which we were able to assist with two-year’s worth of rent. To top it off, our partnership has allowed for the ACFFC to also open a storefront space as well, giving older artists a place to work and a new location to sell the children and teen’s beautiful works of art.

Head over to our blog and find out how your generous donations played a vital role in our very special partnership with the ACFFC — and feel free to check out their official website too!