Fun night of dinner, cocktails, live music & dancing!
Vertile Foundation is one of our favorite charities and CrossFit Sanitas will be hosting their upcoming fundraiser party November 11th. Vertile Foundation provides housing, food, education and medical care for orphaned and abandoned children in Haiti. Vertile also decided to open a school in Haiti in 2019, because without an education it is nearly impossible to break out of poverty. Only 20% of kids makes it past the 6th grade in Haiti due to poverty and lack of schools.
All proceeds will go directly to Haiti to fund operating expenses and the completion of the new children’s home that is being built in a safer location away from intense gang violence around Port-au-Prince. Please read below if you’re interested in learning more about what’s happening in Haiti. Also, please let Melissa know if you can contribute a vacation home or fun experience to the live auction .
Date & Time: Nov. 11th from 6:30p
Location: CrossFit Sanitas
Food & Cocktails: The Post + Open Bar
Live Music + Dancing: The Housecats (Eric Roza’s band)
What to Wear: Fun Party Clothes
Live Auction: Vacation homes in Vail, Estes Park, Winter Park + An Unlimited Year at CrossFit Sanitas, Streetside Dance, YMCA, Yoga Retreats & more
Tickets: $100 each, all proceeds go directly to Haiti
Children born into poverty are hungry, don’t go to school and lack a stable home. Children living in poverty are destined to live out their days struggling to meet basic needs. What is life like for children in Haiti:
60% live in extreme poverty
80% don’t pass 6th grade
50% face acute hunger
50% drink contaminated water
Haiti, the Greatest Need in the Western Hemisphere
Haiti is considered one of the most dangerous places in the world with almost half the population - 4.9 million Haitians - facing acute hunger, and parts of the capital are facing starvation. Violent civil unrest began in 2018 and has since spiraled into complete chaos in Haiti’s captial, Port-au-Prince. No elections have been held since 2016 and the last elected president was assassinated in 2021. More than 200 gangs have taken over and they blocking roads, terrorizing, kidnapping, raping and murdering civilians. The gangs have also closed down roads around the airport and the seaports, making it very difficult and expensive to get basic supplies.
Nobody is safe and close to 200,000 people are displaced outside of the capital. Many of these people have moved into the suburbs of Port-au-Prince near Vertile’s current children’s home and the gang violence is spreading to that area and beyond. This is why they are urgently trying to move the kids west to a safer area near their school.
If you're interested in how this happened in Haiti, watch this 6-minute video from The Guardian on How Haiti Came to be Run by Gangs.