Fish for Haiti: 2 churches help PECH

Thank you to the members of Joy of Christ  Lutheran Church and St. Timothy's Episcopal Church, both of Honolulu, Hawaii, for jointly participating in the PECH Haiti project.  Members of both congregations collected over $800 for the PECH project.  They also decorated these colorful fish with messages of hope (some even wrote in French!) to encourage Gentille Hirondelle elementary school children in Haiti.

 The fish is very symbolic for my Haiti project- "PECH" is the Kreyol word for "fish" and the name of my project.  It also reminds me of the quote "If you give a man a fish, he will eat for a day. If you teach a man to fish he will eat for a lifetime" which summarizes my plan for Haiti: education is the key to helping Haiti and help should be long-lasting and benefit many.  Furthermore, the fish is an important symbol in the Bible (fishers of men, the acronym for the Greek word for fish, the multiplication of the bread and fish for the crowd, etc...)

Additionally, both congregations have generously given financial gifts to my project.  Thank you so much to all of you for helping Haiti!