Our Next Meeting will be Tuesday, April 9, 2024 at 7:30am Edina Country Club, 5100 Wooddale Ave. Edina, 55424. Speaker will be Dale Snyder, cofounder and Director of Administration for Haiti Outreach.  Haiti Outreach started in 1997 with a few Minnesota volunteers who had been to Haiti with other organizations participating in minor projects on the ground. They met at St. Luke Presbyterian Church in Minnetonka after their travels and dreamed about doing something more impactful, something that would make a bigger difference to help Haiti become a truly developed country. They expressed being inspired by Neil Van Dine, an American who moved to Haiti in 1989 in his 20s and has never left, committing his life’s work to assisting the people of Haiti. Prior to meeting members of the Minnesota group, Neil worked for some years in Haiti with Jay Lawhon, a retired entrepreneur, businessman, and philanthropist from Arkansas. They drilled many wells together, bringing clean water to thousands of people on the Central Plateau of Haiti. But Neil saw that just drilling wells was not enough. |