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A Mother’s Heartfelt Thanks: A Letter from Haiti to Richard Hotes

Recently, Richard Hotes received a letter from one of the women the Hotes Foundation hired as a kitchen worker for our feeding program in a mud-hut village in Haiti. The letter touched us so much that we wanted to share it. I want to thank Richard for giving me the opportunity to generate an income on...

Boots on the Ground: A Look Back at the Hotes Foundation’s Rebuilding of Katrina’s “Ground Zero”

Whole city blocks were missing, houses torn off their foundations and dropped in roadways, the entire city of Waveland, Mississippi—gone. Ten years ago this week Hurricane Katrina made landfall in Waveland, and just days later 50 Hotes Foundation volunteers were there. What greeted the volunteers wasn’t only incredible destruction, the carnage of a whole city...

Hotes Foundation Haiti Volunteers Form Women’s Soccer League

Hotes Foundation volunteers were in ‪‎Haiti‬ last week to form a Haitian women's ‪soccer‬ league! Over 100 women, ranging from 12-years-old to 50, turned out for three days of tryouts, rigorous drills, and scrimmaging lead by Hotes Foundation intern, Alex Arciniega, and Haitian men’s national team player, ‪‎JuniorErves‬, who generously donated his time. Enthusiasm was...

Hotes Foundation Proud to Announce Another Track Chair Delivery to Deserving Veteran

To boldly go where no ‪wheelchair has gone before. The Hotes Foundation is proud to announce it delivers another Track Chair to a deserving ‪‎veteran‬. SPC Perry Young, ‪‎USArmy‬, attached to Fort Stewart 3rd Infantry Division was injured while on foot patrol in Wardak Province, Afghanistan, when a suicide bomber blew up a car where his...