A year ago we interviewed Kay Roseen, president of Future Forward for Haiti, about the 2021 Gallatin Valley Packathon for Haiti. Over 400 local volunteers gathered at Hope Lutheran Church and packed 8 tons of food into packets to be prepared and served to the school children of the small village of Bois Negresse near the southeastern border of Haiti and the Dominican Republic. That provided over 75,000 meals – one meal every week day to those children for a full year.

This year, Future Forward for Haiti is again organizing a Gallatin Valley Packathon for Haiti at Hope Lutheran Church on October 15, and they are looking for 500 volunteers to pack 10 tons of food, which will yield 100,000 meals!

We spoke with Kay Roseen to find out more about the packathon, as well as the challenges in getting food and other assistance to the children of Haiti under increasingly difficult and dangerous circumstances. She tells us that Miraculously, Future Forward For Haiti and their partner, Feed the Hunger, with their local partners in Haiti, are succeeding – where larger, international organizations are less successful.

For more information, to register, or to donate, click on this link: https://www.futureforwardforhaiti.org/gvpackathon

To read the article referenced in this interview:

‘This Is It. This Is Our Chance.’ It’s Time for Everyone to Get Out of Haiti’s Way. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/12/opinion/haiti-montana-accords-reparations.html

Haiti looting caused loss of some $6 million in relief supplies, WFP says https://news.yahoo.com/haiti-looting-caused-loss-6-213631343.html