By Rob Fitzpatrick This spring, I had an opportunity to travel to Jacmel, Haiti as a part of The Refuge Center’s partnership with the Hands and Feet Project to work one on one with children living in their program. I had previously travelled with the program to work with American staff and the house mothers, […]
For years, ministries in Haiti have worked on meeting the basics of life — clean water, food, shelter — for the thousands of orphaned or abandoned children there. It’s only recently that one of those ministries, Franklin-based Hands and Feet Project, moved to a higher level of care, dealing with children’s emotional and mental […]
THE REFUGE CENTER PARTNERS WITH THE HANDS AND FEET PROJECT TO MEET PSYCHOLOGICAL NEEDS OF HAITI’S ORPHANED AND ABANDONED CHILDREN FRANKLIN, Tenn. – The Refuge Center for Counseling has announced a partnership with the Hands and Feet Project—a nonprofit offering long-term, family-style care for orphaned and abandoned children in Haiti—to help meet the psychological needs […]