Belle-Anse

Belle-Anse Bèlans
Municipality
Country	Haiti
Department	Sud-Est
Arrondissement	Belle-Anse
Elevation	0 m (0 ft)
Population  (7 August 2003)
• Total	51,707

Belle-Anse (Creole: Bèlans) is a municipality in the Belle-Anse Arrondissement, in the Sud-Est Department of Haiti. It has 51,707 inhabitants.

Belle Anse Timoun Family School: The name Belle Anse Timoun Family School was chosen by our Haitian University student interpretors. Belle-Anse is the town. Timoun is Creole for children. Lafanmi is Family. The idea is to create a family of our children and community with the goal of creating a future for them through education.

learn more Read all updates are on our blogWhat's New: It is official. The land has been purchased and sale has been notarized.

Our next scheduled trip to deliver supplies will be in October.

Clearing of the land has begun! Thanks to the many students and others who are volunteering their time and muscles for the school!

More news from Haiti: Regular classes will be over on July 25 and we will a special English and computer training class for adults to and young people. Plans for a school latrine are being made. We are planning on getting a power system because we spend too much in burning gas to put in generator. Then we want to get a portable inverter and a solar pan system to get electricity. Asaph is here from Jacmel to assist with the internet connection and pricing woods and plywood and other materials for the school. We have wired additional donations for the school. Thus far we have raised funds for: The land and tax 15.5 month of support for 4 teachers $1000 towards building items such as seating for the students School supplies delivered A contact from Florida has helped us bring our teaching supplies to Belle Anse and is visiting the school this week along with other work he did in Port au Prince!

Raffle winner! The winner of the Calypso Quilt raffle is PF from Mt. Vernon, WA! All donors were entered in the drawing.

click photo to enlarge | read about the meaning of this quilt About Us: When our Peace Health/Sacred Heart team with two OHSU/VA members from Oregon along with a national group-- Team Ange were given the privilege to join CME hospital in Cayes Jacmel Haiti to help provide care after the earthquake, we did not anticipate the emotions and ties that would develop from the experience. Our thoughts remained with the people in Haiti. Members of the teams visited patients who were transferred to the US, helped support patients still there, raised funds for aid groups, and one couple from Team Ange moved to Jacmel to help with volunteers. We tried to find universities in the US to help our Haitian volunteer University student interpretors continue with their education, but were unsuccessful.

After the US teams had returned home, the university students returned to their home towns for a reprieve from the trauma of Port-au-Prince. They began working to educate children in Belle Anse. The majority are underprivileged and have lost their homes in Jacmel and Port-au-Prince without possibilities to continue education. The University students wished to give them skills to help their future. To make this a durable project, they needed our help. We were fortunate to know many others in the US who had not had the opportunity to go to Haiti, but also passionately felt the desire to help. They've donated funds, books, supplies, quilts and support. As we became involved and began to make this a reality, the community and leaders also joined in with their support-- with all having the common goal of educating and finding ways to help the students, families and the community in the wake of the earthquake.

This site is an effort to continue the good will along with others from the USA and help the community at a grass roots level. It's amazing what can be done amongst people, between countries: Belle Anse Timoun Family School.

Welcome and thank you for your support!

learn more Our Efforts: We are currently raising funds to purchase land for the Belle Anse School. This will ensure the school's continued presence and ability to get Ministry of Education grants. Additional funds will decide how much further support we can give to the teachers.

These teachers are University students who no longer have schools to attend as 80-90% were destroyed in the 2010 earthquake. They now teach students ages 5-15. Kids in Haiti love school and the school has increased to over 150+ students. More are expected as people without homes have migrated to safer communities like Belle Anse.

In good times people earn an average $2 a day, so any donation goes far. We are also organizing supplies. The supplies and 100% of the donations are personally brought by us to ensure everything gets to the community.