Haiti Outreach Haiti is the poorest country in our hemisphere. The average wage for a man there is less than $100. per year. When Rev. Grant first went to Haiti with his father in 1960, he was told that over 1/3rd of the babies there die before their first birthday, and that 1/2 die by their third birthday. He saw every morning how the trucks came to pick up the bodies; who had died during the night. His life was changed, he said, when one man, during his 1963 trip to Haiti, walked up to him and offered to "give" him 50 babies. He said, "Mr. Grant, I have 50 babies in this house just across the street. You can have them if you will take them back to the United States and take care of them." W. V. Grant said, "I can't do that. The Customs officials won't let me do that, but I will do the next best thing. I will buy that house and put somebody over it." After he told the Haitian man that, he walked across the muddy street and went in. He said, "There were 50 babies laying there, all right. But there were no beds and no floor, just 50 babies laying there on the ground." He kept his pledge, bought that house and fixed it up and that was his first "orphanage." Over the years, Rev. Grant and his ministry have helped build many more, and have fed thousands of children, having gone there 25 Christmases, and a total of 31 trips. Although Rev. and Mrs. Grant have no buildings in their name, preferring to establish the orphanages, and let the local people have the dignity of ownership, they can proudly point to many thriving orphanages that they have founded and supported for the past 30 years. They bought a $25,000 Mitsubishi truck for an orphanage in Petionville, a $5000. generator for an orphanage in Fon Dooze, and took a $10,000 gift to the Royal Palm orphanage to help them build and move into their new facilities and also built a church on that property. This ongoing support is current and regular. Pray for Rev. and Mrs. Grant's outreach to this poor country‹just 90 miles the other side of Cuba. On Christmas Day, 1980, Rev. Grant "found" a little baby boy in the city garbage dump of Port-au-Prince, completely naked, crying, with maggots and bugs crawling all over his little body. He grabbed him up and took him to one of the children's homes there and literally saved his life. This is just one story of hundreds just like it, how God has used Rev. and Mrs. Grant to minister to the underprivileged of this poor country. If you would like to go with us on our next Haitian trip this coming Christmas season, please contact us at P. O. Box 353, Dallas, Texas 75221, or call us at (214) 333-2176. To make a tax-deductable donation to the Haitian children, click on the "Donations Needed" button and specify to what area you wish your donation to help support, in this case the "Haiti Children Relief".

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