Domes for Haiti is so close to completing our goal to send ten domes to Haiti to shelter orphans. We have all of the struts needed to assemble ten domes completed and packed and stacked on palettes waiting to be shipped to Haiti. The project is on hold until we can receive the funding nessesary to complete the domes. They need covers to be completed. Our goal is to send along with ten domes, a tool kit consisting of a shovel, post hole digger, sledgehammer, pick axe, metal rake and two adjustable wrenches. We are also committed to hiring Haitian workers at a living wage to prep sites to build the domes on.

We are looking for Haiti based organizations to collaborate with and benefit. We would like to partner with like minded orgs in Haiti to raise the needed funds to get these shelters where they are needed in a timely manner.

The official amount of money we need to complete these goals is as follows:

Dome Covers = $14,195 plus shipping. Upon receipt of 50% of this total, our manufacturer, Eide Industries, will commence fabrication of the covers. They need 10 days to complete the covers.

Tools= 876$ will buy ten sets of the tools listed above at cost from Ace Hardare, Pintchik on Flatbush Ave

Labor= $3600 When we arrive in Haiti, we will be hiring a truck driver, a translator and workers to prep sites. We need cash on hand to support the economy in Haiti.

Please donate generously to our efforts. You can choose to donate directly to our project through clicking the "buy now" button or you can donate through our fiscal sponsor and receive a tax write off by clicking the "donate" button. Virtually all of the money collected will go to fulfilling the above costs. We are an all volunteer organization.

thanks for your support!!

Domes for Haiti is looking for an international shipping company who will ship our domes from Miami to PaP free of charge.

update

I got word back from Eide Industries, Inc.
They can get it done in 10 days for an additional $2900 to pay OT to their workers.
So that puts our current total at $11,295 + $2900+ $2000 for shipping = $16,195

We'd like to send some tools with each dome. For $1000 more I can send a good set of tools with each dome kit. That tool kit includes a shovel, a posthole digger, a metal rake, sledgehammer, pick axe and 2 adjustable wrenches.

Total to finish dome kits plus tools is $17,195.00

We currently have approx $3000. We will need a little cash on hand when we get there to hire Haitian workers to prep the dome sites.

If someone out there is reading this and might be thinking about donating a large amount of money, please do. If you want you can pay the manufacturer directly. Please contact me, Lopi at info@domesforhaiti.org and I will send you my phone number so you can ask me any questions you like. I will meet you in person. You are welcome to ask me any question you may have about our plan to bring shelter to Haiti.

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We finally got a real quote from a potential manufacturer. It looks great.For ten dome covers, they would charge us $11,928. This does not include shipping. They require us to send them one dome frame to use in the fabrication.

More than ever, NOW we need your monetary support. Please tell everyone you know about this project. We have no funding, we are depending on the support of individuals such as yourself to contribute generously!! For a $1,198 contribution, you can help us complete one dome which will house up to 20 kids!! If you have been meaning to donate to this effort, but haven't yet, TODAY is the DAY!

Struts All Packed Up and Ready to GO!

Yesterday we completed a major task. John Laidman from Laidman Fabrication in Greenpoint Brooklyn delivered the struts for us to pack up. John's company donated the labor to fabricate the metal for this project. Thanks John! It's businesses like his that care about doing more than just making money that are making this project possible. A rare individual, I wish there were more people in business like John who would be willing to stop their normal production at a loss to do a good deed. Thanks to all the shop guys, Kenny and all the rest who donated their time to making the struts!

THANK YOU!!!!

John delivered the finished struts to the loading dock at 3rd Ward, where we had set up a little dome packing factory for the day.

john and brett

Brett showed up and we got right to work, sorting out the struts to pack them up.

Olivia came to help pack it up

JJ & Ryan O'Connor came and did the pack it up.....

We counted out 35 longs and 30 shorts, shrink wrapped them in ten dome kits and piled them up on two palettes, ready to go.

Thanks to the pack it up crew. You really know how to ratchet strap a strut bundle.

This was a huge accomplishment. We now are totally set with the dome frames. This represents a major in kind donation. The metal was all donated by Turtle & Hughes at a value of $2,000 not including delivery. The fabrication would have cost $7,000
Thank you, so much for the generous support of our project.

I am currently hard at work trying to locate one manufacturer that will agree to fabricate the dome covers for our domes in a swift and timely manner. We need funding to get this done. Bare bones we need $7,000. To send tools with each kit we need an additional $1000
To bring money to hire Haitian workers to prep sites we need $5000. We'd be in awesome shape with $13,000. Not a huge sum. We can do it, with your help.

If you donate $100, you will be housing one orphan. For $1000 you can house 10.
Please spread the word, please donate generously to our project!!

THANK YOU FOR DOMATING

All Hands on Deck

Domes for Haiti needs your help, today, Monday, packing up struts to be shipped to Haiti.
We will be on the loading dock of 3rd Ward from noon until it's done. Bring gloves!

195 Morgan Ave Brooklyn 11237

More photos from Art Auction

This is cash from the last two benefits we held. This is $1,130! Photoshop would not let me edit it because it was federal notes. I promise I am not trying to print counterfeit money, just want to show people the grass roots effort in action. Dollars from individual people's pockets make up the entirety of our budget so far.

We made a total of $1205.oo at the Art Auction. However, some of the money is still outstanding. If you made the winning bid on a work of art, please respond to the email we sent out to arrange for delivery of works of art to the winning bidders. Thank you for bidding on work! Now let us deliver it to you and gather up the rest of the money for Domes For Haiti.

Flower Head.

Some happy attendees stand near a beautiful lamp made by A'yn Tran titled "Nest"

Morty's print of domes in Berlin, James's intricate painting of Bucky, Swoon Prints.....


Brett!!!

photos by Olivia Katz and JJ Hurvich