The Help One Now ethos is to remain invisible on the ground, and to focus efforts on resourcing high-capacity local leaders.

Help One Now empowers local leaders through friendship and partnership. We partner with leaders who are already working effectively in their respective communities. These leaders are friends and allies in the fight against extreme poverty. They are our greatest resource, and without them, sustainable change is impossible.

For this reason, we don’t typically do “mission trips,” as they can distract from the work of locals to influence change in their own communities.

Instead, we will lead a limited number of Vision Trips for committed, long-term supporters of Help One Now. On these Journeys, emphasis will be placed on connecting with the community, building lasting relationships with the local leaders, and brainstorming how you can unlock your human capital to partner together and support their work moving forward.

ON THIS TRIP, you will...

...be able to meet some of these amazing local leaders, and fully experience some of the communities in which they serve. You will be able to see first hand how our leaders and their teams work to care for vulnerable children, empower families through education and community development, and dream ahead to find long-term solutions to help bring an end to the cycle of poverty. We will spend our time with two key leaders; Jean Alix Paul (Haiti), and Rodrigo "Rod" Davis (Dominican Republic). We will visit their schools, churches, and other community development initiatives to see first-hand the effects of their work and our partnerships together. And we will dream about the future work of empowering families around the world!

Goals

On this Vision Trip, we hope that you will:
● meet and fall in love with our local leaders and the communities they serve
● learn from our local leaders by hearing their stories and engaging in their communities. Doing this helps us, the visitors, understand the unique issues in different environments
● see the impact of our projects firsthand and gain a new understanding of how complex working in these communities can be
● discover how you can use your skills and gifts to be advocates of the country, people and families that you meet when you return home. You are a part of the Help One Now family; we need you to run with these stories and partner with us to change lives.

Tentative Schedule

• 2pm Team arrives CAP
• Dinner at hotel, into to trip

• Breakfast at hotel
• Head to Ferrier
• Meet Jean Alix and Ferrier leaders, hear story and vision for fam empowerment long term
• Time with kids at the village, tour schools
• Dinner at hotel

• Breakfast at hotel
• Spend day in community, meet families going through empowerment program
• Lunch at village
• Head to border, cross over and drive to La Vega
• Meet Rod and team, hear story and vision for fam empowerment long term
• Dinner at guesthouse

• Breakfast at guesthouse
• Spend day in community, meet families going through empowerment program
• Do something fun in Santiago area
• Dinner at Mofongo restaurant

• 7am Team departs STI

• 8am Breakfast at guesthouse
• Head to Santo Domingo
• Lunch and time in Colonial Zone
• Dinner and beach time at Casa Hemingway