After finishing finals, a group of students from Ames, Iowa have come down to work with Many Hands for Haiti. This team is a part of Kairos, the college ministry at Lutheran Church of Hope Ames. Meet some of the team and see their highlights through these pictures.

 

Danny Householder carries three boys.

Madison Owens smiles with a teenage girl.

Kaili Streeter holds a sleeping baby.

A small girl plays on the MH4H campus.

The team helps plant banana trees on campus.

Madison Owens holds a little boy’s hand.

Two Haitian workers pour a concrete floor in a local home.

The team helps mix and pass buckets of concrete to the Haitian workers.

Haley Schepers plays with a little boy.

The team poses with the MH4H agriculture team after working in the field.

Sarah Ripperger, Sammy Hiatt, Gracie McConnell, Olivia Prohaska, Allison Bruns, Carrie Brcka at the top of Mt. Pignon.

The group poses in the back of a “tap-tap.”

The Saturday market in Pignon.

The group visits a local suspension bridge.

Sam Chizek poses with a child after hiking Mt. Pignon.

A child peers over Olivia Prohaska’s shoulder.

Caleb Borgestad carries a child on his shoulder.

The Many Hands Editorial Team is a collective of dedicated staff, local leaders, and operational experts working directly on the ground in Pella, Des Moines, Haiti, and Abaco. United by a shared mission to be Love in Action, our team provides transparent, data-driven insights into sustainable community development. Every field report, impact update, and educational guide we publish is rooted in our daily work alongside these communities. We are committed to answering your hardest questions and sharing the real, unpolished stories of how local leaders are breaking cycles of poverty and transforming their neighborhoods from the inside out.

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