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Jan 18 2012

VIDEO: Chicago Sails Prepared For Shipment

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VIDEO: Chicago Sails Prepared For Shipment

  On Saturday Chicago-based volunteers Allen Carter and Jeff Gockstetter were on their way to the regatta in Key West when they passed through Miami and dropped off a load of sails that they had collected since August. On Sunday nine South Florida volunteers gathered at SFS HQ to prepare the sails for shipment to Haiti. Like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter for announcements of the next time we will be packing sails.

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Dec 13 2011

AP: Dreamers bring ideas, projects to post-quake Haiti

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AP: Dreamers bring ideas, projects to post-quake Haiti

Sails for Sustenance was mentioned in an article written by an AP correspondent based in Haiti and published around the web by various news outlets.

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Dec 12 2011

VIDEO: Sails Rolled At Miami HQ This Weekend

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VIDEO: Sails Rolled At Miami HQ This Weekend

  On Saturday Michael Laas and Michael Carcaise began packing another load of sails for Haiti. We need your help with our ongoing preparations of the next shipment. Like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter for announcements of the next time we will be packing sails.

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Dec 07 2011

63 Sails For Haitian Fishermen Dropped At Shipping Facility

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63 Sails For Haitian Fishermen Dropped At Shipping Facility

Today Mike Carcaise and Oscar Sardiñas dropped 18 bags of sails off at Food for the Poor’s shipping facility in Coconut Creek. The load consists of a total of 63 sails and will travel to Port-au-Prince via sea freight over the next week. In Port-au-Prince the sails will be retrieved by representatives of Fondation Paradis des Indiens and Hope for Haiti and taken to their final destinations of Abricots and Ile-aVache, respectively.

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Dec 15 2007

Port-au-Prince, Haiti

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Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Bernard Chauvet is considered among the most experienced and knowledgeable sport fishermen in Haiti. He was appointed as a special consultant to Food for the Poor’s project to help fishing villages. Over the years, Mr. Chauvet has developed relationships with hundreds of subsistence fishermen all over Haiti.

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Dec 15 2007

Ile-a-Vache, Haiti

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Ile-a-Vache, Haiti

Grand Sable lies on Ile-a-Vache, a rural island (12,000 acres) off the southwest peninsula of Haiti. It is said that the name Ile-a-Vache (Cow Island) was given by the French due to the great number of cattle left on the island by Spaniards.

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Dec 15 2007

Testasse, Haiti

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Testasse, Haiti

Testasse is a small village a few miles east of Jeremie. At the beginning of 2008, Haitian Health Foundation commissioned the production of six 14 ft. fiberglass fishing boats to be made by a local Haitian boat-builder. SFS provided sails for the new boats.

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Dec 15 2007

Abricots, Haiti

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Abricots, Haiti

Abricots is a fishing village of 1,000 inhabitants located in the county of Grande Anse on the SW peninsula. Sails are distributed to the fishermen of Abricots by Fondation Paradis des Indiens (FPDI)–which operates schools and programs to empower all people of Abricots to achieve financial independence and self-sufficiency through entrepreneurial development.

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