Last February, Barco’s Uniform employee Denisse Casales joined me on my trip to Haiti. Denise described this trip as “life-changing,” saying she was so touched by the people of Haiti that she returned home determined to go back to Haiti and do all she could to help them.  Denisse posted pictures of her experiences on […]

Barco’s Nightingales has partnered with Hispaniola Mountain Ministries (HMM) to build solar wells and bring clean water to thousands of people in Haiti. In addition, through HMM, we provide hot lunches for 540 children who attend a school where one of our water wells is located. Yet, this is only part HMM’s mission.  HMM also […]

We received the most amazing greeting in a new town for us, Banane, Haiti. This city will get Barco’s Nightingales Foundation’s 6th solar water well at the end of 2014. The community met us in their church; nearly 300 attended. What a grateful and humble community. We hope you enjoy this video as much as […]

Ever wonder why we build solar water wells in Haiti?  Here are a few statistics that underscore the importance of our work. An estimated 200 million hours are spent each day globally collecting water. Surveys from 45 developing countries show that women and children bear the primary responsibility for water collection in the vast majority […]

Bon Dlo.  In Haitian it means good water. These are words we’ve been hearing frequently as our 5th solar water well in Haiti nears completion.  This well,  which will be called Bon Dlo, is located in Boucan-Guillaume and will be dedicated to the memory of our good friend, Tim Dortch, who passed away in May […]

On my recent trip to Haiti, I was blessed to be able to start a new program that will provide a hot lunch to nearly 550 students at Good Samaritan Community School in Anse-a-Pitre, Haiti each and every day of the school week. This represents more than 11,000 hot lunches a month.  The school lunch […]

Dear Mr. Donner and Barco’s Nightingales Foundation, It has been over a month now that I went on a mission trip to Haiti with your help! I truly am grateful to you for assisting me in funding my trip. That was such a kind and generous thing to do for me and the others you […]

When I visited Haiti this year, I had the opportunity to see some amazing and caring doctors, nurses and dentists bringing health and healing to their patients in Haiti.  The experience touched my heart and reaffirmed our vision and mission for Barco’s Nightingales Foundation. For six days the volunteer teams provided dental and medical help […]

We are proud to announce the beginning of out 5th solar water well in Haiti.  On this site, the hole for the well was dug successfully.  We reached water after only going down 90 feet. We are hopeful that this will be operational within 90 days.

Michael Donner, founder of Barco’s Nightingales Foundation visited Haiti in February 2014. This is his amazing journey in photos and words.                 Please visit the full gallery on Facebook.