Phoenix Vision Society, disaster relief, fundraising

Welcome to Phoenix Vision Society

The mission of Phoenix Vision is to assist in resolving the suffering of the poorest of the poor in the Third World. Our current project is to assist groups of women and their children in Haiti who’ve lost everything as a result of the earthquake in January 2010. We’re trying to help in the following ways:

Healing Trauma
Community Development
Micro-Financing
Help Them Move to a Healthier Environment

Please help us to help them. You could either give money, help from home, or maybe even go to Haiti yourself and help directly with our project. Go to the articles section to get a list of ideas on how you could become involved.

About Phoenix Vision

Phoenix Vision is a non-profit organization that is currently helping groups of women and their children who’ve lost everything in the earthquake in Haiti of 2010. Our first trip was in the summer of 2010. A group of us plan to go in the fall of 2010.

Phoenix Vision focuses on assisting groups who have been oppressed by other people and have experienced great suffering in their environment. These people do not have the ability to rise above their very difficult situation on their own. In fact, traditional forms of helping through micro-financing, community development, or healing trauma would not be sufficient on their own. Billions of dollars in donations have gone into Haiti, into slums in cities such as Vancouver, Canada and other large centers, with very little to show for it. Our goal is to assist the people of Haiti in such a way that it’s as effective as possible.

Our goals are in helping the groups of women as follows:

Healing trauma which prevents them from moving forward in their lives
Help the group to become organized in such a way that the help each
other more fully
Micro-financing to assist them in becoming more independent
The long-term goal is to assist them to move to a location that is more
workable for them

Upcoming Event

Update & Fundraising Event: Transformation Project In Haiti
Come Hear Jennifer Van Wyck (MA Counselling Psychology)
Sunday, August 21st, 2011 @ 12:30pm
Unitarian Church Fellowship Hall
949 West 49th Avenue, Vancouver, BC

Feedback

Participants from the group of 50 women in the center of Port au Prince in Haiti that I worked with – the area has been labelled as a safety risk and so helping organizations do not help there except to provide drinking water and toilets. The government wants to move these people but can’t afford to do so because governments who promised to send money, such as the US and Canada have not sent the money they’ve promised.

“Nobody’s come and talked to us since the earthquake six months ago. You’re the first to come and help us.”

-DK, Haiti Disaster 2010

“Connecting with the other people who’ve lost everything and discussing our losses together helps us to feel a lot better”

-LK, Haiti Disaster 2010

“Your healing methods have helped to heal a lot of my upset feelings very quickly”.

-DR, Haiti Disaster 2010

"The combination of your helping to heal our emotional suffering as well as providing practical help is wonderful. We had no hope before, and this is helping us to feel a lot better.”

-BL, Haiti Disaster 2010

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