ABOUT THE HAITI MISSION

The Haiti mission trip has been a constant on Wesley’s mission schedule for many years. Serving the village of Sous-a-Philippe on the island of La Gonave, missions teams travel by boat from the mainland to the small village to work, eat, worship, swim, hike, play soccer, and live life with the Haitians for one month. Mission team projects in Sous-a-Philippe have included building latrines, a boat dock, and a retaining wall along the shore and restoring homes destroyed by the hurricane. In 2015, Wesley signed a five-year covenant with the village to help them restore a desalination system that had been destroyed and left abandoned for years. Haiti is already one of the most impoverished countries in the world, and Sous-a-Philippe’s distance from the mainland almost ensures that no government aid reaches their tiny, remote village. With clean water scarce and at a cost that most of the villagers cannot afford, the desalination system became Wesley’s number one project. Together with Tech’s Bulldogs Without Borders engineering team and Haitians contractors, Wesley brought the necessary materials and began cleaning and restoring the system. In 2016, the first three rows were completed, and clean, potable water flowed from the desalination system for the first time in decades. Sous-a-Philippe is a place that evidently embodies community and joy. Though they have little, they fight through language and cultural barriers to open their homes and themselves to you and to build relationships that last long after the boat pulls away from the dock at the end of the month.