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  Diocese of Norwich Outreach to Haiti Ministry Launches 'For the Love of a Child' Raffle

Posted on October 09, 2024 in: Events, Outreach to Haiti

  Diocese of Norwich Outreach to Haiti Ministry Launches 'For the Love of a Child' Raffle

Do You Want to Win $10,000?

Your support is needed now more than ever to help our brothers and sisters in Haiti who face daily severe shortages of food, gang violence, and the uncertainty of being able to get to work. Outreach to Haiti supplies food and nutritional supplements for malnourished children and expectant mothers, medical aid and health care to the ill, education, training for start-ups of micro-businesses, and support to 14 Parish Twinning relationships with the Archdiocese of Port-au-Prince.

 

Diocese of Norwich Outreach to Haiti Ministry is launching its For the Love of a Child Raffle

 

Tickets are limited to only 400 and are on sale now for $100 each

The only prize to be awarded is a Grand Prize of $10,000 and there are tickets still available!

 

The raffle drawing will take place Monday, December 16  at 12PM at the Outreach Office in Norwich – just in time for Christmas shopping!

 

To get your ticket contact LoAnn at the Outreach to Haiti office at 860-800-3601 or go to our website www.outreachtohaiti.org  or send your check to Outreach to Haiti, 815 Boswell Ave., Norwich, CT 06360.

We pray you will support our diocesan ministry that for nearly 40 years helps thousands of families in the poverty-stricken, Christ the King neighborhood and fourteen parishes throughout the Archdiocese of Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

 

Donations of any amount are always gratefully received. May God bless you!


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