CCHMP NEWS STORIES
November 2009 Trivia Night
End-of-Summer Social & Fund-Raiser
Charlie's II - January 2009 & February Luncheon
Student Donates to CCHMP
April 2008 Meeting
X-Ray Machine Donation
Clinton Herald Photo
A Profile of Christina Mahoney
February 2008 Luncheon
Charlie's II - January 2008
November 2009 Trivia Night
Registration fee is $10 per person. Teams of 4-6 can register online at http://cchmp-022008a.tripod.com/trivia.html, by sending their team information to libberton@grics.net, by calling Larry Libberton at 815.244.1357 or on the night of the event. It is recommended that teams register prior to the event.
Doors will open at 6 p.m., with the competition set to begin at 7 p.m. Competition will consist of 10 rounds of 10 questions.
End-of-Summer Social & Fund-Raiser
The Carroll County Haiti Mission Project will hold an
end-of-summer social and fund-raiser at J.J.’s Comeback Inn in
CCHMP members
plan to make the group’s next trip to
The group will also have a luncheon at 11:30 a.m. on
Sunday, Oct. 4 at the
April 2009 Trivia Night
The Carroll County Haiti Mission Project will hold its 5th Trivia Night fund raiser on Saturday, April 11, 2009 at Buck’s Barn, north of Thomson. Cash prizes will be awarded to the top two teams.
Registration fee is $10 per person. Teams of 4-6 can register online at http://cchmp-022008a.tripod.com/trivia.html, by sending their team information to libberton@grics.net, by calling Larry Libberton at 815.244.1357 or on the night of the event. It is recommended that teams register prior to the event.
Doors will open at 6 p.m., with the competition set to begin at 7 p.m. Competition will consist of 10 rounds of 10 questions.
All
of the money raised during the event will help fund the group’s mission work
in
Charlie's II - January 2009
Carroll County Haiti Mission
Project’s eighth annual dance fund-raiser will be held at Charlie’s II in
CCHMP members plan to make the
group’s 22nd trip to the Juampas region of the
CCHMP teams travel to
All
donated money goes to the group’s projects; there are no administrative costs.
Prior to a team leaving for
The group will also have a luncheon at 11:30 a.m. on Sunday, Feb. 8 at
the
The public is invited to both events.
For more information on CCHMP, please contact Bill Timm, 244-2286 or visit the group’s website at http://cchmp.tripod.com.
Student Donates to CCHMP
Emily Legel, left, a student at West Carroll Intermediate School in Thomson, recently sponsored Crazy Hair Day and for $1 each student could have crazy hair, with the proceeds going to CCHMP.
April 2008 Meeting
In June, members of the Carroll County
Haiti Mission Project will make their 20th trip to the poorest nation
in the western hemisphere. If
you’ve ever wanted to learn more about the organization, the group will have a
meeting on Sunday, April 27 at 4 p.m. at the
Founded in 2001, CCHMP
teams travel to
During the
June trip, group members will continue exploring a possible water purification
project for the
X-Ray Machine Donation
In December 2007, Dr Stephen F. Petras (second from left) of the
Clinton Herald Photo
The February crew is holding a copy of the
A Profile of Christina Mahoney
(Christina
Mahoney made her first trip to
Christina is an admissions representative for
traditional campus students in
She
says the thing she loves most about AU is working face to face with prospective
students and assisting them through the admissions process. When she’s not
working hard, she likes to read, travel, play tennis and most of all spend time
with her husband Dan and daughter Lauren.
When
she was in college in
As
fate would have it, Larry Libberton, Ashford’s own Director of Communications,
is very involved in a group called the Carroll County Haiti Mission Project (www.cchmp.org)
and they make frequent trips to
Being
the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, every penny counts and the CCHMP
has quite literally transformed the
You
can imagine then when these two crossed paths, there was no stopping Christina!
Larry invited her to a CCHMP meeting, and she wanted in immediately. She joined
the CCHMP and was able to go on her very first trip to see their work in action,
late last month.
“Larry
Libberton really drew me to the mission. Once I heard all of the great things
they were doing and the impact they were having on the people of
Christina
said the trip was life-changing. “When we were touching down into the capital
of
The
February mission group had 20 people, 10 from CCHMP, and the others from the
Even
though the town of
Juampas,
where the group has built a clinic and provided educational and other services
to the townspeople, has no electricity and indoor plumbing (Editors’ Note: It
was my first question too! They used an outhouse, affectionately named “Little
House on the Prairie.”)
Christina
said the people in the village gave her one of the warmest welcomes she could
remember. “They are so incredibly
excited to see you, especially the children. We were greeted with hugs and
kisses, like long lost family. I can’t remember how many times we were
thanked. They are so appreciative of the work we are doing in their
community.”
The
group stayed in a house in Juampas, with about 5 bedrooms with 5 or 6 beds in
each room. The house had bucket showers, but Christina followed local tradition
and went to a small nearby city that has a creek with a tube streaming in fresh
mountain water. That was where most of the villagers bathed, cleaned their
clothing, and filled up water jugs. Christina said she donned a swimsuit, but
many of the Haitians took a freer approach and bathed in the buff.
While
only there for a short time, Christina and her group worked at the clinic they
built in Juampas, sponsored new children so they could go to school, distributed
mosquito netting, and more. Additionally, they visited two other villages,
bringing them badly-needed school supplies and dental fluoride treatments.
One
boy who really tugged at Christina’s heartstrings during her visit was named
MacKenzie. Just nine years old, he is the only one of his five sisters that can
go to school. He quietly asked Christina to please help find sponsors so his
sisters could join him in getting an education.
She
didn’t take the request lightly, and is committed to telling his family’s
story to her church and community, so that all six children can get an
education, and reap the rewards that come with it. It costs $150 a year to send
one Haitian child to elementary school. A pair of shoes for many of us, is an
impossible sum for families like MacKenzie’s.
Christina
says she will most definitely go to
February 2008 Luncheon
Carroll County Haiti Mission
Project will have a luncheon at 11:30 a.m. on Sunday, Feb. 10 at the
Ten CCHMP members plan to make the
group’s 19th trip to the Juampas region of the
CCHMP teams travel to
During the February trip, group members will also investigate a possible water purification project. In developing countries four-fifths of all the illnesses are caused by water-borne diseases, with diarrhea being the leading cause of childhood death, many medical sources say.
For more information on CCHMP, please contact Bill Timm, 244-2286.
