Hello and welcome to the association's website
"Havilah FingerStyle"
Aid association for the most disadvantaged people
in the Dominican Republic.
HAVILAH AND ITS PROJECTS
Through our presence and our works we wish to testify, in a concrete way,
assistance to people in need due to various life circumstances so that they keep hope.
Our actions in the field are already greatly appreciated but above all useful, thanks to our donors, partners and
our volunteers the association distributes more than 100 meals as well as many clothes during the holidays, now
we want to provide this food aid on a quarterly basis and then, as quickly as possible,
on a monthly basis.
In the long term, we are committed to building a center in which we can offer a wide range of help and mutual aid.
in favor of the most deprived people in the Dominican Republic in the city of San Pedro de Macoris for our first center.
This center aims to share in all senses of the word.
Sharing the Word with pastoral supervision.
Knowledge sharing with classrooms.
Sharing lessons with a meeting room.
Music and information sharing with recording studios.
Sharing food with our weekly family basket work.
Sharing a roof and a play area for orphaned children.
Professional sharing with in-company training.
Certainly, these sharings are addressed to the most disadvantaged but they will be, as far as possible, open to all.
Through these sharing we mainly aim for the comfort of the youth
because the youth of today are our future and the awakening will pass automatically
by this youth.
We are already working on the ground and
Step by step we move forward, step by step we help and we move forward!
OUR ACTIONS, OUR OBJECTIVES
VERY SOON
Thanks to our partners and donors, we will very soon be able to provide quarterly assistance to families
in need.
This help will be provided by our volunteers on site and distributed
by one of our pastors with whom we collaborate and who knows
the needs of the most precarious families in his neighborhood.
This food aid is not only intended for devotees of a
church but indeed to the population in need.
Very quickly, we are sure,
we can do this operation on a monthly basis
because the need, alas, is great!
CHRISTMAS ACTION 2021 - 2022
This year, no less than 175 meals were distributed to children and more than
twenty to volunteers.
In addition, 150 kilos of rice, a hundred bottles of oil and approximately
200 pieces of clothing and accessories were also distributed to families
(of 4 people) in need.
This year, it is potentially 600 people that we had
chance to help.
Thanks to you who gave by sowing in our association,
thank you to our partners, thank you to the volunteers both in Switzerland and on site
in the Dominican Republic and especially...
thank you Lord and glory to God.
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Thank you
With our new partner, Franco-Mission Internationale,
we are now certain of renewing our Christmas action
"100 meals for 100 children".
We are even in the certainty that we will manage, all together, to do much more.
We did it last year
with great success,
over 130 meals served
to needy children.
This year we are recommencing our
"100 Meals Action",
with your help we will certainly do more ...
maybe double ?
It's up to you ... support Havilah
CURRENT OBJECTIVE
We need you !
Would you be willing to go without just one cup of coffee a day?
If 30 people make a donation corresponding to 1 coffee per day, ie around chf. 3.50 and undertake to do it for 1 year, we will be able to carry out this operation.
It's a challenge!
You have the possibility to participate in this challenge by making a one-time or monthly donation on our page:
For the value of 1 coffee per day for 1 year you will potentially help more than
200 people in need !
And unlike coffee, your donations are tax deductible ...
FOR A YEAR AND MORE .....
Our next goal is to be able to offer:
1 bread per day for 100 children
as well as giving weekly food aid to
30 families of 4 people in need.
This weekly food aid includes:
5 pounds of rice
1 pound of beans
1 bottle of oil
LET'S GO !
The sending of boxes full of clothes for the most disadvantaged children in the Dominican Republic, in San Pedro de Macoris, has started.
They will receive new clothes for Christmas and start the year 2022 with a blessing.
TOUCHED IN THE HEART
A MAGNIFICENT GESTURE
Stylist and seamstress, our partner is committed to providing 50 new outfits for the start of the school year.
Soon, she will hand deliver the magnificent clothes that she designs and makes with love.
Thank you for his time, his commitment and his extreme modesty.
FAR FROM RECEIVED IDEAS ...
The Dominican Republic is not just a postcard country with only 5 star hotels and infinity pools located 100 meters from a white sand beach and turquoise sea!
There are also and above all a people, inhabitants, thousands of square meters where sugar cane is worked, towns and villages in the countryside with very little convenience and great precariousness for many people.
Here is the observation I made the first time I visited this magnificent country more than 25 years ago!
During all these years I have rubbed shoulders with the residents there, not in these fabulous hotels but in families, including mine, in large and small towns, villages and in the countryside.
Despite an often very difficult life, I have rubbed shoulders and always rub shoulders with a positive population, always with a smile, caring people who do everything possible to feed and educate their children and support their families.
CONTEXT
I must tell you that my wife is of Dominican nationality and that therefore most of our family lives in this country.
Luckily they are part of a class of people who can help their neighbor as much as possible.
But this help is really very limited.
My wife and I have been committed for many years to helping those most in need in the Dominican Republic and
more particularly in the Region of San Pedro de Macoris .... but what to do ???
We send boxes of clothes and toys on various occasions, but is that enough?
Certainly not !
We had to move up a gear and we are doing it!
Helped and supported by friends we have therefore launched, on the basis of our existing association since 2006, an association of mutual aid and financing of projects, this by broadening the goals of the association and by surrounding ourselves with new people of confidence here in Switzerland as in the Dominican Republic.
Much work still awaits us but we now know that we are, spiritually, physically and materially ready and well surrounded both here in Switzerland and on site in the Dominican Republic in San Pedro de Macoris.
Our desire:
Help create hope in the hearts and lives of people!
Despite the work and the difficulties we will face,
we will achieve our goals and much more with your support!
This is our main motivation
"For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the LORD;
I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him."
Psalm 12: 5
Why Havilah?
Because of a magnificent text:
"The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold."
Genesis 2:11
Association Havilah FingerStyle
Genève:
17, Avenue des Morgines 1213 Petit-Lancy Genève | Suisse
info@havilah.ch
+41 22 525 04 03
Association Havilah FingerStyle
Banque RAIFFEISEN Suisse
IBAN : CH56 8080 8009 0098 6301 1
Association Havilah FingerStyle
République Dominicaine:
Res. Naime, Caille Primera #65, San Pedro de Macoris | RD
info@havila.ch
+41 22 525 04 03
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