Category Archives: News

When Aid Agencies Fail Citizens Step Up!

Remembering Hurricane Sandy this Halloween. The power went out at 6:00 pm. Bridges and tunnels had already been closed. The National Guard was on standby and Mayor Michael Bloomberg was urging everyone to stay indoors. Three years ago, just two days before Halloween, Hurricane Sandy, the deadliest and most costly hurricane of the 2012...

“So this is what the rest of my backyard looks like!”

Wounded Veteran Receives New Tracked Wheelchair from Hotes Foundation. For 12 years retired US Army Corporal Jonathan Merchant hadn’t ventured into his backyard. Confined to a conventional wheelchair, the furthest he could go was a narrow strip of concrete just off his patio. Resigned to the situation, he thought that’s how it would always be, until...

The Greatest Catwalk The Caribbean Has Ever Seen!

Watch this uplifting video as members of the Hotes Foundation’s women’s soccer league in Haiti strut their stuff in their new team uniforms - the greatest catwalk the Caribbean has ever seen! Never has our motto “Change Giving to Going” been more fun to see put into action.

Soccer Celebrations Reach a New Height in Haiti: The Hotes Foundation Surprises Its Women Soccer Teams with New Uniforms.

It is four in the afternoon on a bright autumn day in Haiti and dust rises from a soccer pitch outside a remote village of mud huts. Shouts and laugher rise with it and coming closer you’re surprised to see two smartly dressed teams in full regalia—cleats, uniforms, and shin guards—battling it out under the...