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This decision grows from the very heart of why we are in Haiti.

Since buying the land, many of our team have been reflecting on Matthew 15, where people with disabilities come to Jesus seeking hope and healing. In a culture where people with disabilities were often overlooked or cast aside, Jesus changed the narrative, saying: “I have compassion for these people.” His compassion was not simply sympathy. It moved him to action. People were welcomed without discrimination, healed and fed, and they and their families found hope and love.

That is the heart behind all of our work in Haiti.

We believe every person is created and loved by God. No one should be overlooked because they have a disability, need long-term support or cannot access the care they need.

Over the years, this conviction has led HHA to develop services that were previously out of reach in northern Haiti. These include the region’s only spinal cord injury rehabilitation centre, one of its largest wheelchair distribution programmes, Maison de Grâce, a safe space where children and young adults with disabilities are cared for and loved unconditionally, and a new critically-needed oxygen generation plant.

Together, these services provide care, inclusion and compassion where it would otherwise be missing.

A permanent home for growing services

As this work has grown, however, the spaces it depends on have not grown with it.

Our services are currently spread across several locations, often operating from rented buildings that were not designed for their purpose, can be difficult to access or cannot be secured for the long term. These buildings have been a huge blessing, but they also limit how many people we can reach and make it harder to provide connected, lifelong care.

Purchasing this land changes what is possible – and gives compassion a permanent home.

Our vision is to create an “oasis of hope and healing”: a place where pathways, treatment rooms, learning spaces and gardens are designed around the dignity, care and potential of people with disabilities.

It will bring services closer together, making it easier for families to access the support they need while giving our teams the facilities and stability to provide better-connected care.

The first phase: a new home for Maison de Grâce

With the land now secured, we have been working with partners, architects and our local team to plan what comes next.

The first phase will give Maison de Grâce – our centre for children and young adults with disabilities – its first ever purpose-built home.

The new facility will include dedicated spaces for therapy and rehabilitation, education and learning, play and recreation, vocational activities, respite care, and support for parents and carers.

Most importantly, the new space will enable Maison de Grâce to serve more children and families and provide an environment designed specifically around their needs.

Eventually, we hope all our existing services will move to the new site, creating a connected centre for health, rehabilitation and disability support in northern Haiti.

There is still a long journey ahead. Turning this vision into reality will require prayer, expertise, courage and generosity. But we are full of expectation for what God will do through this place – and for the hope, care and opportunity it will make possible for generations to come.

This is more than a new building or a new site. It is a commitment to a future where people with disabilities and their families are seen, loved and valued, and where compassionate, quality care has a permanent home.

We look forward to sharing more about these plans as they develop.

You can also read about this announcement here. 

Thank you for being part of this story.

As always, there were moments that reminded me exactly why we do this work. I met families who took part in our agriculture project back in 2023 and are still farming today - feeding their families and building small businesses from what started as a one-off intervention. I met women who had safe pregnancies and healthy births with the support of our midwives. I met people in remote parts of the settlements who have been reached, for the first time ever, with wheelchairs and prosthetics through our outreach clinics.

There was joy - real joy - in those conversations. The kind that comes with dignity being restored, with people being able to provide for themselves, and with inclusion becoming the new norm in communities.

A Growing Gap Between Need and Support

But alongside that, this trip felt different. It was my first time back since the widespread international aid cuts last year, and the change was obvious. The level of need has deepened, and, honestly, in some moments, it felt overwhelming.

One woman I spoke to now walks four hours each way to reach our centre for physiotherapy, after losing the transport support she once relied on. I spent time with a father caring for twenty-two children - his own and his late brother’s - with no food rations to support them. And in Bidibidi, a healthcare leader shared that some people are choosing to return to South Sudan, despite the insecurity, because “they would rather die in their home country than in a foreign land.”

These aren’t isolated stories - they reflect a wider shift. And being there, hearing them first-hand, I was so saddened by the injustice of it: that these people, who have already experienced such hardship, conflict and displacement, are now facing even more suffering.

Ready To Respond

But more than saddened, I felt incredibly frustrated - and I know this is a sentiment that many of my colleagues in our local team feel too. Because, in many cases, we already have most of what we need to respond. We have a dedicated, experienced local team who are still there, still showing up every day. We have the relationships in the community, the trust, the infrastructure. We know what works.

But we don’t always have the resources to meet the need in front of us.

We have patients who need the care we can provide, but can’t afford to travel to reach it. We have an agriculture programme that we know can work, but not enough funding to provide seeds to everyone who needs them. We have outreach clinics ready to go - but only one vehicle shared across two countries, meaning clinics are sometimes cancelled. We have a huge waiting list of children in need of wheelchairs, and a team of experienced technicians able to fit them, but currently no supply of paediatric chairs.

Where Hope Can Take Root

I wanted to share this honestly because, while we often tell stories of hope and transformation - and those stories are real - they are not the whole picture. As a fundraiser, I'm often tempted to fit stories into a neat, happy, hopeful narrative, but the reality is much more complex.

But this doesn’t mean hope is lost.

If anything, it makes it clearer where hope can take root. Hope is not about pretending everything is fine, or simple sunny optimism, but recognising that these challenges are not insurmountable. The foundations are there. What’s missing is the support to keep going and to reach further.

So I share this not to diminish the impact we’re having together, but to invite you further into it. There is still so much more to be done - and the opportunity to make a tangible difference is right in front of us.

If you’re able to stand with us at this time - whether through giving, prayer, or simply staying engaged with this work - I want you to know that your support is deeply needed and genuinely matters. It helps ensure that people are not left behind, and that the hope we see glimpses of can continue to grow.

Thank you for being part of this with us.

Thanks to your generosity, your prayers, and the dedication of our incredible local teams and partners, we’ve seen doors open, lives transformed, and entire communities strengthened in ways we could never have predicted back in January.

So take a moment as we share the 10 milestones that made 2025 a year to remember. This is just a selection of highlights that particularly stood out for us - you can read more about the ongoing impact of our work in our Impact Report!

OUR BRAND NEW OXYGEN PLANT PROVIDING LIFE-SAVING OXYGEN FOR THOUSANDS 

Back in February, we celebrated a huge milestone in Haiti, when we opened our Oxygen Generation Plant - and for most of the year we have been the only provider of medical grade oxygen in the entire north of the country. The plant produces life-saving oxygen, with2,387 bottles made so far this year, supporting fragile newborns, trauma patients and emergency surgeries across the region.

PREVENTING HAITIAN COMMUNITY HEALTH PROGRAMME FROM CLOSURE

Earlier this year, sudden international aid cuts threatened to close a key maternal and infant health programme in one of Cap-Haïtien’s poorest neighbourhoods. By working with local partners, we stepped in to keep the doors open, ensuring vulnerable mums, babies and children continued to receive antenatal care, vaccinations, home visits and essential support. A quiet but deeply meaningful victory that reminds us of the importance of stepping in when communities risk losing vital lifelines.

BRINGING COMMUNITY HEALTH TO SOUTH SUDAN'S HARDEST-TO-REACH COMMUNITIES

Healthcare at New Hope Kajo-Keji continued at full pace with over 300 consultations every week. And, this year we went even further. In August, we launched a brand-new maternal and infant health outreach programme, allowing our midwife and team to travel to remote communities to deliver pre- and postnatal care, nutrition advice, breastfeeding support and vaccinations. This is the kind of work that truly transforms long-term outcomes and we are so excited to see it evolve in 2026!

PLUMPY'NUT FOR UGANDA: A WAVE OF GENEROSITY

You responded with incredible compassion following an urgent appeal in July when we saw rising malnutrition in the Ugandan refugee settlements following drastic food ration cuts. Thanks to your support, two containers of Plumpy’Nut are on their way, and when they arrive, will provide life-saving therapeutic food to over 3,400 children battling severe acute malnutrition. What a powerful, tangible expression of love in action!

A NEW DISABILITY CENTRE IN KAJO-KEJI

For the first time ever, Kajo-Keji has a permanent home for disability care. This year, we built a dedicated Disability Centre, hired local staff, and established a real base from which to offer consistent rehabilitation, follow-up care and support. In a region with no other services for people with disabilities, this is a beautiful new chapter.

DREAMS REALISED: HAITI'S CBR TEAM IS REINSTATED

This has been in our hearts for years and it finally happened! We have a new and revitalised Community-Based Rehabilitation team which is carrying out home visits, supporting caregivers, providing pastoral care, and working in close partnership with local churches to build more inclusive, compassionate communities. Our disability work in Haiti continues to grow and the CBR team underpins everything we do.

NIGHT TO SHINE (AND SHINE THEY DID!)

One of the most joyful nights of the year for our work in Haiti! Over 100 children with disabilities dressed up, walked the red carpet, danced, laughed and celebrated their worth and beauty. Night to Shine is a worldwide celebration inspired by God’s love, created to honour and value people with special needs - and for many, it was the first time they’d experienced such inclusion. It was a night bursting with dignity, joy and smiles.

GROWING HOPE: AGRICULTURE EXPANDS ACROSS BORDERS

With food insecurity rising in East Africa, our Agriculture & Livelihoods programme continues to be a lifeline. This year, alongside welcoming 100 new households in Uganda and continuing to mentor past participants, we reached a major milestone by securing a partnership to launch the programme in South Sudan for the very first time. Seeds planted today will feed families for years to come.

THE SOUTH COAST CHALLENGE: COMMUNITY AT ITS BEST 

This year’s South Coast Challenge left us inspired and incredibly grateful! An amazing team of HHA supporters pushed themselves to their limits - some of them walking an astonishing 100km in 24 hours! Thanks to a generous match funder and all the donors that rallied behind the team, the event raised over £20,000 - far more than we ever expected and a beautiful testament to what happens when people unite around compassion.

DOUBLE IT DECEMBER: WE REACHED OUT GOAL!

We’re ending 2025 with so much gratitude.
Thanks to your incredible generosity, we smashed our £100,000 Double It December target! This support means we can step into 2026 ready to continue delivering life-changing health and disability care where it’s needed most. Thank you for helping us finish the year strong and full of hope!! 

Every one of these milestones exists because of you, our extraordinary supporters, partners, churches, trusts, volunteers and local teams. We see God’s faithfulness working through each of you as you continue to show up with courage and compassion.

Amid a year of uncertainty, your generosity kept hope alive, affirming that God is present and at work even in the most challenging contexts.

Here’s to 2026 - and to choosing love, justice and dignity, again and again.

This reflection captures just 24 hours of my recent visit to Uganda – a day that held both sobering challenges and surprising moments of hope. It was a powerful reminder of the complexity of the context we work in, and the difference that even small seeds of support can make.

Crippled Systems, Growing Desperation

This was my first trip back to Uganda since the latest round of global aid cuts began to severely disrupt services for refugees. Uganda remains home to Africa’s largest refugee population, with over 1.8 million people seeking safety here. But the international response is faltering.

In May, the UN Refugee Agency announced that food rations for around 1 million refugees would be cut entirely. The rest have seen their monthly rations slashed to unmanageable levels. We arrived in Palorinya Refugee Settlement – home to many South Sudanese refugees – where we were met by Robert, our Nutrition Officer. Normally an unshakably positive presence, Robert didn’t mince his words. “The health system is crippled. Education is crippled. Nutrition is crippled,” he said as we travelled along the dusty tracks towards our HHA projects.

What does this mean in practice? It means services that once offered a lifeline are now reducing or in some cases gone. NGOs and UN agencies have made huge staffing cuts. Essential, life-saving supplies are running desperately low.

Take Plumpy’Nut – a therapeutic food used to treat severe acute malnutrition. Since 2018, HHA has partnered with Edesia (a US supplier of Plumpy’Nut) and UNHCR to help plug supply gaps, shipping this life-saving product to frontline clinics. But the pipeline is now critically strained. One aid worker told us plainly: without extra support, they soon won’t be able to treat malnourished children at all.

The result? Children who could be saved will die.

I struggle to write that sentence. Many of you know our personal story – my wife and I lost one of our sons, Noah. Yet amidst that grief, we carry the comfort that Noah received the very best care possible. The very best support, the very best love. That’s a gift every parent should have. But it’s no longer the reality for thousands of families across the world – families who watch helplessly as health centres run out of the basics they need to save their child’s life. To then face the prospect of losing your child inside a health facility, not because the treatment doesn’t exist, but because it’s simply not there – that leaves me speechless, and angry.

Hope amongst the cabbages

And then, on the same day, against this harrowing backdrop, we stepped into a field of cabbages – more cabbages than I’ve ever seen.

Walking through maize fields to one of our agricultural sites, we found ourselves in what felt like an oasis of peace. A refugee father welcomed us, proudly overlooking his crops. “Before I was introduced to HHA, it felt like I was walking through a desert,” he said. “Living in the dark, with nothing to show for my efforts.” Now, he’s harvesting over 800 cabbages – enough to generate over £475 for his family and others, a huge amount when many families in the settlements live on less than $1 a day. Beyond that field, over 100 acres of HHA-sponsored farmland stretched to the horizon.

Further along, we found 100 wheelbarrows, each filled with tools and seeds funded by one of our amazing donors. These will support 100 new families – most of them including a person with a disability – to join this growing movement of hope. It was a joy to see each family walk away smiling, carrying not just equipment but renewed purpose.

A powerful reminder of the ongoing need

At the edge of the crowd of this distribution, we noticed a mother and her beautiful daughter, who has Down syndrome – much like my eldest son. They arrived in recent months, having fled the war in Khartoum, Sudan, with seven children. As she shared her story, I was struck by the familiarity of her expression. It mirrored the faces of South Sudanese mothers I met in 2017 when this settlement first opened – a mixture of grief, confusion and quiet resilience. A kind of dignified calm in the midst of deep upheaval. They’re not yet enrolled on our programme, but our team took their details to ensure follow-up support through our Community-Based Rehabilitation team. Meeting this family was a sobering reminder that this refugee crisis is ongoing; that, just like when I first visited in 2017, new people are arriving every day and are in desperate need of support.

Extraordinary News – and an Urgent Need

And to add to this extraordinary 24 hours, we also received a message from our partners at Edesia. Not one, but two containers of Plumpy’Nut had been secured for our joint efforts. Over 3,400 cartons. Each one representing a child who can now be saved from malnutrition. It’s extraordinary. An answer to prayer.

But here’s the challenge. We’d only budgeted to ship one container this year. The second wasn’t planned – and isn’t funded. We’ve taken the decision to say yes anyway. Because how could we not? We’re now urgently working to raise the additional £7,500 needed to ship both containers and get them to Uganda as soon as possible.

This was one day. One glimpse. But it says so much. It tells the story of why your support – your prayers, your donations, your advocacy – matters so deeply. In a world of overwhelming need, your generosity is changing lives.

If you’re moved to respond, we’d love you to consider helping us fund the second Plumpy’Nut container. We have the product. We have the team. We have the need. We just need the means to deliver it.

Donate Now – and help us bring hope and healing, one carton at a time.

With deep gratitude,
Carwyn

As shared in our latest newsletter, we’re thrilled to invite you to our next Challenge Event on Saturday, 6th September—a stunning adventure along the south coast of England, all in support of HHA’s life-changing workaround the world!

🚶‍♀️ Choose your challenge:

• Team 1: 25km from Eastbourne to Alfriston – a perfect intro for first-timers!

• Team 2: 57km all the way to Hove – for those wanting to push further.

• Team 3: 100km ultra challenge to Arundel in 24 hours – the ultimate test!

Whether you're walking a few miles or taking on the full distance, every step helps fund:

🍽️ Nutritious meals for children with disabilities at Maison de Grace, Haiti

💊 Life-saving medication for patients in South Sudan

🌾 Food security & resilience programs for refugee families in Uganda

🎉 It’s been a few years since our last big challenge (remember Yorkshire 3 Peaks?)—let’s make this one unforgettable!

✅ Ready to take part?

👉 SIGN UP HERE and we’ll send you everything you need to get started.

💡 Can’t join us in person?

No problem! Host your own fundraiser—run a race, host a bake sale, or celebrate your birthday with purpose. Your creativity can transform lives.