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PLEASE READ HERE FOR CARING HOUSE PROJECT FOUNDATION'S LATEST EFFORTS IN  HAITI: QUITE AN IMPACTFUL STORY! 

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Thank you for taking the time to visit our Caring House Project Foundation page. My name is Frank McKinney.

I have spent the better part of the last 25 years creating some of the most magnificent oceanfront estate homes in the world, each created on speculation.

In one of my new books titled, Burst This! Frank McKinney's Bubble Proof Real Estate Strategies, I share contrarian perspectives and a paradoxical approach for attaining generational success in real estate. I feel I am qualified to do so, as I started many years ago with a $50,000 fixer upper and now recently completed Acqua Liana, the world's largest and most opulent certified "green" home at $29 million.

"Frank, what does this have to do with Caring House Project Foundation and helping the poor?"

Quite a bit. Stay with with me.

 

In all, I have written five books, but none more impacting than another new release titled The Tap. 

In The Tap I share the most important spiritual principle of my success in the business we are all in, the business of life. I explain how God has tapped me (and taps everyone) many times in life, answering prayers and presenting life-changing opportunities.

The Tap shows how to sensitize yourself to feel then act on your life's great "Tap Moments," embracing the rewards and responsibilities of a blessed life.

And that is exactly what happened to me in 1998, when I experienced the most epiphaneous tap moment of my life by acting on that "tap" and starting the Caring House Project Foundation.

All the real estate successes were great, but what is it all for? I began by doing my best to live by the passage from the Gospel of Luke, 12:48: "Much will be required of the person entrusted with much, and still more demanded of the person entrusted with more."

I felt the best way to reflect that mantra was by starting a foundation that cared for those who had no shelter.

After all, when you strip it all down, I am simply in the housing business, and felt I should be providing that most basic need to those who have no home. 

Stability begins with a home. Without the need of shelter being met, there is often little hope. 

What started so small, by providing housing for $1 a month to elderly homeless people here in the United States, has grown tremendously.

CHPF has impacted the poorest of the poor in the countries of Haiti, Honduras, Nicargua, Indonesia and Africa.

If you look to the top right and left of this page you will find a few videos that you can select to see some of the projects CHPF has been involved in around the world.

Outside of the United States, CHPF's primary involvement has been in Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemishpere.

Since 2003, through CHPF donors, we have invested nearly $3 million into creating self-sufficient villages in Haiti. 

With that commitment, by the end of 2010, CHPF will have built fourteen (14) villages in the Haitian cities of Gonaives(2), Port au Prince (Cite Soleil), Testasse,  Ft. San Michael, Los Cacaos, Cap Haitian (Blue Hills), Paroty, Terre Rouge, Fond Rouge Torbek, Chameua, Mannual and Mahotiere/Rampa, all at no cost to the beneficiaries. 

This year, in 2010, CHPF is building the three villages in Chameua, Mannual and Mahotiere/Rampa, which are close to Jeremie.

As of the beginning of 2010 nearly 5,000 people will have been sheltered because of CHPF, and hundreds of thousands more are alive because of our (and your) efforts.

Our Caring House Project Foundation mission statement:

"The Caring House Project Foundation shall create projects based upon self-sufficiency by providing housing, food, water, medical support and opportunity for the desperately poor and homeless from around the world, particularly in the Caribbean, South America, Indonesia, Africa and here in the USA."

Before I go on, would you consider helping our efforts by scrolling down this page and making a donation? There are 65 different donation options, very large to very small.

 
New House
 

That mission statement above has expanded over the years to include elements now crucial to a self-sufficient existence where the poor and homeless will no longer have to rely on government or even charities to sustain and improve their lives.

Our 2010 Program of Work NEEDS YOUR HELP!

Please scroll below to choose an initiative that is near and dear to your heart.

As evidence of our commitment, let me share a little with you about a couple of projects CHPF either recently completed or is undertaking.

 
Highlights of the self-sustaining elements of the villages in
Terre Rouge, Paroty and Fond Rouge Torbek, Haiti:
 

Terre Rouge:
50 large houses that will house up to 400 family members, 50 latrines, 50 pregnant goats and 100 avacado, mango and other fruit trees.

Paroty: 
25 houses housing up to 200 family members, 25 latrines, 40 pregnant goats and 50 fruit trees.

Fond Rouge Torbek:
25 houses housing up to 200 family members, 25 latrines, 35 pregnant goats and 50 fruit trees.

Please scroll below or visit our Donate Page at http://www.frank-mckinney.com/donate.aspx to pledge your support today for our projects today.

Remember: "Each of us are fortunate to be blessed with the ability to succeed at some level. This success is not for our sole benefit however, but so we might apply the result of our success to assist those less fortunate." 

Here is an excerpt from a letter from a new resident of a recently completed CHPF village who also works in the school:

I am grateful for the provision of the new village. We found this little 4 year old girl in a shack in the swamp with her two sisters, one 5 years the other 1 year. They were alone, all very hungry. They are our newest residents to move to the village along with another set of three children who just lost their mom last week. The youngest child of this family had her hand broken in several places. Her mother had symptoms of an illness that would cause her to fall constantly. She fell on the baby several times breaking her hands. God Bless you and those who made this possible - Delane Baily.

I know this page is getting long, but I am excited to share our plans for 2010 in the three new villages we are building in Chameua, Mannual and Mahotiere/Rampa, Haiti.

 

Each new village will be built with 50 large new homes, 50 new latrines, 50 pregnant goats, 100 fruit trees 1 mule (used to transport emergency patients, medical supplies and equipment) and, pending cost, 1 community center housing a clinic, church and offices for  vocational and life training.

That is a total of 150 homes housing up to 1,200 family members, 150 new latrines, 150 pregnant goats, 300 fruit bearing trees 4 mules and 3 large community centers!

These three cities are so remote that the villagers often have to walk over 10 hours just to get food and water.

Many currently live in dilapidated shacks made of cardboard, plastic, tin, or whatever materials they can scavenge from the garbage heaps.

These rudimentary dwellings have dirt floors and offer no protection against the brutal weather conditions. 

Our Caring House Project Foundation will promote a new sense of community by providing safe housing, sanitation, renewable food resources and a multi-purpose community center and clinic (which will also provide organized programming for the youth on health issues along with a Soccer/Responsible Sexuality Program), and water for the residents of Chameua, Mannual and Mahotiere/Rampa, Haiti. 

Will take a moment to look at the donation options below?

Please choose the involvement where you desire to make the most impact: orphanages, schools, homes, water, renewable food, community centers (worship) or clinics.

Or, if you would like us to choose where the need is the greatest, then choose that option at the very bottom of the list.

There are varying donor levels and commitments can be made monthly. You can feel secure knowing your donations are being put to use where your heart calls! 

"Somane Hilaire se yon je-n fiy-li kontan pou-l benefisye yon kay nan Ange Village. Sa pral bay diyite epi kontyans nan Lavi-a. Mwen pa fe jalouzi pou moun ki gen kay."

  Somane Hilare is a previously homeless resident of another village recenlty completed known as Ange Village. Translated from her native Creole, she says-"I have waited long to see this happen! This gives me a sense of dignity and confidence in life. I won't be jealous of anyone having a home."

 

After choosing a donation option below, scroll to the bottom of this page to read more about the history of the Caring House Project Foundation and about some of the projects we have completed around the world since 1998.

     
Click the amount you would like to donate
 
 
 
 
SINGLE FAMILY HOMES FOR 8 FAMILY MEMBERS
2 rooms, kitchen, front porch, latrine for bathing and going to the bathroom
 

Entire Village
50 houses
400 residents

$125,000.00
Donate
 

Entire Village | Payment Plan
50 houses
400 residents

$10,417.00
per Month for
12 Months

Donate
 
½ Village
100 persons provided with shelter
$31,250.00
Donate
 
½ Village | Payment Plan
100 persons provided with shelter
$2,605.00
per Month for
12 Months
Donate
 
Two Homes $5,000.00
Donate
 
One Home $2,500.00
Donate
 
One Home | Payment Plan
 5 month payment plan
$500.00
per Month for
5 Months
Donate
 
Housing for 1 Homeless Person $313.00
Donate
 
Housing for 1 Homeless Person
Payment Plan
$26.00
per Month for
12 Months
Donate
 

ORPHANAGE
Twelve 4-room homes housing 12 orphans & two adult caregivers
168 lives touched

     
Entire Orphanage $80,000
Donate
 
Entire Orphanage | Payment Plan $6,670.00
per Month for
12 Months
Donate
 
One 4-room orphan home $5,000.00
Donate
 
One 4-room orphan home
Payment Plan
$417.00
per Month for
12 Months
Donate
     
½ of a 4-room orphan home $2,500.00
Donate
     
½ of a 4-room orphan home
Payment Plan
$219.00
per Month for
12 Months
Donate
     
Shelter for 1 orphan $417.00
Donate
     
Shelter for 1 orphan $35.00
per Month for
12 Months
Donate
     
SCHOOL
6,500 total sq. ft. consisting of 13-500 sq. ft. buildings.
Approximately 400 students
     

Entire School
6,500 sq. ft.
400 student

$75,000.00
Donate
 
Entire School | Payment Plan $6,250.00
per Month for
12 Months
Donate
     
½ A School $17,500.00
Donate
     
½ A School | Payment Plan $1,459.00
per Month for
12 Months
Donate
     
One Complete Classroom $2,693.00
Donate
     
One Complete Classroom
Payment Plan
$224.00
per Month for
12 Months
Donate
 
Schooling for 1 Student $337.00
Donate
 
Schooling for 1 Student
Payment Plan
$28.00
per Month for
12 Months
Donate
 
COMMUNITY CENTER
Building for fellowship, worship and communal meals
250 person capacity
     
Entire Community Center $55,000.00
Donate
 
Entire Community Center
Payment Plan
$4,584.00
per Month for
12 Months
Donate
     
     
½ Community Center $20,000.00
Donate
     
½ Community Center | Payment Plan


$1,667.00
per Month for
12 Months
Donate
     
Community Center space for 1 person $667.00
Donate
     
Community Center space for 1 person
Payment Plan
$56.00
per Month for
12 Months
Donate
     
MEDICAL CLINIC
Building | Medicine | Supplies | Examination tables | Scales... 1000's of lives saved
     
Entire Clinic $30,000.00
Donate
     
Entire Clinic | Payment Plan


$2,500.00
per Month for
12 Months
Donate
 
½ of the Clinic $12,500.00
Donate
 
½ of the Clinic | Payment Plan
$1,042.00
per Month for
12 Months
Donate
     
Clinic Services to care for 1 patient $500.00
Donate
 
Clinic Services
Care for 1 patient | Payment Plan
$42.00
per Month for
12 Months
Donate
     

FOOD
Agricultural Project
500+ lives touched

     
Entire Agricultural Project includes:
Chickens | Pigs | Goats
Chicken Coup
Vegetable Seeds | Fertilizers
Fencing | Wiring | Land Clearing
$22,000.00
Donate
     
Entire Agricultural Project
Payment Plan includes:
Chickens | Pigs | Goats
Chicken Coup
Vegetable Seeds | Fertilizers
Fencing | Wiring | Land Clearing
$1,834.00
per Month for
12 Months
Donate
     
½ of Agricultural Project $11,000.00
Donate
     
½ of Agricultural Project
Payment Plan
$917.00
per Month for
12 Months
Donate
     
Food to Sustain 3 Lives $250.00
Donate
     
Food to Sustain 3 Lives
Payment Plan
$21.00
per Month for
12 Months
Donate
Food to Sustain 1 Life
$84.00
Donate

Food to Sustain 1 Life
Payment Plan

$7.00
per Month for
12 Months
Donate
     
One chicken
$4.75
per chicken
Donate
 
One pig
$18.00
per pig
Donate
     

One goat

$45.00
per goat
Donate
 
WATER MANAGEMENT
Pumps | Wells | Storage tanks and sanitation units
thousands of lives touched
     
Entire Water Management Project
$36,750.00
Donate
     
Entire Water Management Project
Payment Plan
$3,063.00
per Month for
12 Months
Donate
     
½ of Water Management Project
$18,375
Donate
     
½ of Water Management Project
Payment Plan
$1,532.00
per Month for
12 Months
Donate
     
Water Management to save 2 lives
$250.00
Donate
     
Water Management to save 2 lives
Payment Plan
$21.00
per Month for
12 Months
Donate
     
Water Management to save 1 life
$125.00
Donate
     
Water Management to save 1 life
Payment Plan
$11.00
per Month for
12 Months
Donate
 
Frank, we want to share our blessings with those less fortunate. You decide where the need is the greatest!
     
$1000 donation
$1,000.00
Donate
     
$1000 donation | Payment Plan
$83.34
per Month for
12 Months
Donate
     
$500 donation
$500.00
Donate
     
$500 donation | Payment Plan
$41.67
per Month for
12 Months
Donate
     
$250 donation
$250.00
Donate
     
$250 donation | Payment Plan
$20.84
per Month for
12 Months
Donate
 
$100 donation
$100.00
Donate
     
$50 donation
$50.00
Donate
     
$20 donation
$20.00
Donate
 
     
$10 donation
$10.00
Donate
 
 

Mme Jean-Louis ap viv man Caring House Blue Hills Pou Li Meme, Se pi bon bagay ki jan'm rive pou li. Yon kay li fe m'sante mwem an sekirite, lidi peson-n pap mete zafe-m deyo anko.

Mrs. Jean Louis lives in a completed village known as The Caring House Village, a village for over 1,000 previously homeless in Blue Hills, Cap Haitien, Haiti. Translated, Jean says: "This is the best thing that ever happened to me. This home makes me feel safe. No one will ever kick me out again."

See some photos of our new villages directly below.

We need your help to finish the three new villages in Chameua, Mannual and Mahotiere/Rampa, Haiti!

 
 
A little more history. All of the work of Caring House  Project Foundation started so small, and continues with your help.
 

The CHPF started domestically in 1998 by purchasing rundown single-family homes, refurbishing them, then renting to elderly homeless people for $1 per month. This good work of renting homes for $1 per month continues into 2010.

On 2/11/02 the CHPF earned its non-profit status (501c3).

In 2002, we took our initiative to Leon, Nicaragua the 2nd poorest country in the Western hemisphere where we built a village for 156 homeless people and realized we could invest $625 and touch a life with new shelter.

In 2003, we built a village for 200 homeless in Cite Soleil, outside Port Au Prince, Haiti, the poorest country in the Western hemisphere.

In February of 2004, we finished a small village for 115 poor & homeless in Choloma, Honduras.

In December 2004, we completed "Village De La Foi (Village of Hope) for over 1000 homeless in Blue Hills, Cap Haitien, Haiti.

In 2005 we built two large villages, one in the Aceh Besar district of Indonesia, an area ravaged by the tsunami and the other in Gonaives, Haiti a city that was destroyed by the 2004 hurricanes.

Later in 2005 we built a tunnel for safe passage for school children in Brazil. The reason the children needed safe passage in unthinkable and not appropriate for reprinting (email if you are interesting hearing why we were moved to build this tunnel).

In 2006 we completed Ange Village in Haiti, our first large scale, wholly self-sufficient village combining shelter and care for orphaned children (a "family home" orphanage), education of all village and neighboring children (a school), shelter for village adults (dwelling units), clean water (water wells, pumps & storage tanks), renewable food source (an animal husbandry), a building for fellowship and worship (a community center) and a central location for medical aid to be distributed (a clinic).

In 2007 we completed a new 1,900 sq. ft., school in the El Japon community of Choloma, Honduras. The new school now accommodates over 300 children who would have had to cease their education after the 6th grade. Why Choloma, Honduras? As you see from above, in 2004, CHPF created a small village for 20 previously homeless families a few blocks from the proposed school. Now this village is thriving and, with this new found stability, it is time to focus on educating the villagers. In terms of ROD (return on donation), the reward is incalculable.

Scroll above where there are donation options for your consideration.

Also in 2007 CHPF completed "Children's Village," a project to protect the street children of Uganda, Africa. The project included constructing 20 rooms in 2 buildings to house and care for 100+ street children in one of the poorest countries in Africa. The small "Children's Village" is located in the the Bugiri district, Bukooli Central, Bulesa sub-county, Nangalama Village.

Since 1998 and through 2009, here in the United States, we have honored hundreds of donation requests from individuals, causes and organizations such as Kids in Distress, Operation Rescue The Children, Child In Need, Food For The Poor, Christians Reaching Out to Society, The Cooperative Feeding Program, affordable housing initiatives, hurricane recovery, disaster assistance and the many other miscellaneous requests that came in.

We enjoy a certain level of flexibility that allows us to act upon worthy requests without the red tape, many right here in America.

In 2008, as further evidence of our self-sufficient initiative, the recently completed village in Los Cacaos, Haiti, near the Dominican Republic boarder, combined 35 double homes, a 2,922 sq. ft. school , a large 2,520 sq. ft. community center (kitchen, feeding area, worship, bank room and pharmacy), a health clinic (in community center), establishment of renewable food source to maximize annual yields (goat farm w/ 50 goats, chicken farm w/ 400 chickens, 5 tilapia fish ponds, vegetable farm w/ 3-1,500 sq. ft. green houses) & related land clearing, construction, fencing, seed & fertilizers, 35 pit latrines, 35 showers and two clean drinking water sources.

In 2008 we also completed our first fishing cooperative in Testasse, Hati.

Testasse is located on the southeastern peninsular tip of Haiti, 140 miles east of Port-au-Prince and 7 miles from Jeremie. It rarely sees any kind of life-sustaining relief and is one of the poorest cities in the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, where poverty is extreme and housing deplorable.

Testasse (along with most of Haiti) has an infant mortality rate of 22% (22% of the children won't see their 5th birthday), highest death rate from AIDS in the Western Hemisphere (life expectancy of 47 years), a per person/per day income of less than $1 and an 80% unemployment rate.

Besides the obvious reasons for choosing Testasse to benefit from the self-sustaining village we built, due to its proximity to the sea, we felt that the new village would prosper if its core activity and commerce were centered around a fishing cooperative. 

When we were able to identify where a small sprinkling of free enterprise might provide for ongoing, life-sustaining capital, we immediately went to work to provide the opportunity in Testasse.

1) A fishing cooperative building so that the new villagers  have a place to receive, clean, process, display, store and sell their fish.  

The fishing cooperative is the primary mode of commerce that will support the village. With the many new fiberglass boats and motors CHPF provided, the fisherman are able to venture into deeper waters, bring back larger fish then are able to use the building to prepare, freeze and keep the fish fresh via generators. With this new found ability to conduct commerce, the village has a steady stream of income. The fishing cooperative is comprised of a 1,200+/- sq. ft. concrete building to include a grinder room, prep room, freezer room, two storage rooms, an office for the co-op, 6 15-foot fiberglass boats with 15hp motors (including fuel), 2 freezers and 1 generator.   

2) A 4,800 sq. ft., 10-room School w/ 2 administrative offices, furnishings, school supplies, 4 latrines and 1 water well to serve 500 kindergarten - 9th graders.

3) A 1,000 sq. ft., Health Clinic and Pharmacy/Dispensary, including water well to treat the many ill children and adults of the village.

4) 61 Concrete Homes, each accommodating up to 8 family members. Each home has two bedrooms, living area, front porch and latrine for bathing and toilet facilities.

5) A 1,100 sq. ft., Community Center for communal meals, fellowship, worship and sharing the good word of God. 

See what an impact you can make by supporting CHPF today?

In 2009 we finished our 2nd self-sufficient project in Gonavies, Haiti by providing i) 35 double homes, ii) a  schoolhouse with nine classrooms, office for admin and teachers, iii) a community center, iv) 3 sets of fruit trees to each house, v) 35 goats, vi) 24 milking cows, vii) vegetable and Fruit Trees (1,000 mango; 1,000 avocado trees, and 1,000 breadfruit trees).

Also in 2009, in Kalsegra, West Ghana, Africa, we built a school known as "The School of Two Trees" for 300 K-8th graders. We also provided a clinic, sustainable farming and necessary equipment.

Please scroll above to make your much needed donation.

 

What is the Caring House Project Foundation doing in 2010 and beyond?

 

Below please find highlights of Caring House Project Foundation's official 2010 Program of Work. Few words, great impact.

1) Build a new village in Chameau, Haiti (50 houses, 50 latrines, 50 goats, 100 fruit trees, 1 mule and, pending cost, 1 community center housing a clinic, church and offices for  vocational and life training).

2) Build a new village in Mannuel, Haiti (50 houses, 50 latrines, 50 goats, 100 fruit trees, 1 mule and, pending cost, 1 community center housing a clinic, church and offices for  vocational and life training).

3) Build a new village in Mahotiere/Rampa, Haiti (50 houses, 50 latrines, 50 goats, 100 fruit trees, 1 mule and, pending cost, 1 community center housing a clinic, church and offices for  vocational and life training).

4) Finish our three villages in Terre Rouge, Fond Rouge Torbek and Paroty, Haiti.

5) Given the continuing economic challenges domestically, focus efforts here at home.

6) Implement microfinance program into a CHPF village or another.

7) Execute one smaller ($25-50k) and one larger ($100k+) fundraising event.

As of the beginning of 2010 the Caring House Project Foundation has provided shelter to approximately 5,000 homeless men, women and children from around the world! And we couldn't have done it without your help.

You should know that we use almost all local labor and materials to construct these villages, therefore helping fragile local economies.

 

Recall the Gospel of Luke: "Much will be required of the person entrusted with much, and still more demanded of the person entrusted with more."

Won't you consider scrolling back up the page and choosing a donation level that will benefit those less fortunate? We have a very busy program of work this year, ambitious beyond anything CHPF has undertaken before. Please help.

 
We can't do it without you!
     
 
     
God Bless,
Frank Mckinney
 
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