

January 2017 Update
Dear friends of Matènwa, Happy New Year! We wish you a healthy, prosperous, and successful 2017! New Year, New Homes! We have been...


Leadership from Lynchburg College
We were honored to have a Haitian exchange student from Lynchburg college come speak with our high school students about leadership. The...


7 Years later Matènwa Celebrates and Remembers
Our preschool through first graders hadn't been born yet on Jan 12, 2010. At our all school meeting today, we realized that half the...


Ringing in the New Year with New Homes!
Walter's house is the first to be completed since we began rebuilding after Hurricane Matthew. We have been working hard to repair and...


Hurricane Matthew's Damage Assessment
Hurricane Matthew is old news for some, but not for the people who were hit by it. For those of you interested in the damage assessment...


Learning Is Fun!
It is always more fun to learn to read with a friend.


Thank you!
Thank you Sue Fiallo for bringing Friends of Matènwa a donation of soccer uniforms and socks and goalie uniforms from Tasis School in...


Fundraising Events in the UK!
What a gift it was when Johanna wrote to me to express her desire to help Matènwa after Hurricane Matthew. She had already started a...


November 2016 Update
Dear friends of Matènwa, It has been nearly a month since Hurricane Matthew ripped through Matènwa, but the aftermath of destruction...


Recycle Reuse Rebuild!
The Matènwa Community School is using your donations to turn the hurricane disaster into an opportunity to show our neighbors how to use...