Not Alone: Stretch Out Your Hand and Restore Dignity in Haiti

by Tyler Kamerman | Mar 2, 2025

Families in Haiti are struggling with hunger and despair. Discover how “Stretch Out Your Hand” provides critical aid and how you can help bring immediate relief.

The need has never been greater, and we need your help now more than ever.

Through your support of Stretch Out Your Hand, we’ve seen lives changed. In 2023, we provided assistance to 137 families, distributing over 5,800 pounds of food. In 2024, we stretched further, reaching 444 families with almost 17,000 pounds of food. These numbers are incredible, but they also underscore the growing gap between urgent needs and available resources.

Every day, our Haitian team encounters families facing heartbreaking choices: food or shelter, medicine or education. These families cannot wait; with your help, they won’t have to.

Through this initiative, our Haitian staff distributes food, provides medical care, offers spiritual guidance, and meets urgent needs. This work is transforming lives, but we can’t do it without you.

One family shared how a simple delivery of rice, beans, and cooking oil brought them to tears. “We thought no one saw us, but this visit reminded us we are not alone.” Your gift does more than provide necessities—it restores dignity and hope to those who need it most.

We have a goal to raise $100,000 this year to sustain and grow this life-changing initiative. Thanks to a seeding gift from generous donors, every dollar you give will multiply in impact.

Time is of the essence. Without immediate action, many families will continue to face hunger, illness, and despair. But together, we can make a difference today.

To support financially or to learn about the beginnings of this initiative and to see more stories of the families impacted by Stretch Out Your Hand – visit www.mh4h.org/stretch

Will you help us bring light into the darkness? Will you Stretch Out Your Hand today to provide food, care, and love to a family in need?

Thank you for walking alongside us. Your generosity continues to make miracles happen.

Stretch Our You Hand Today

About Many Hands:

Many Hands is an Iowa-based nonprofit creating local and global life-transformation by strengthening families. Established in 2008, the organization focuses on six key areas for transformation, including education, agronomy, leadership development, safe homes, medical assistance, and economic development. Each year, the organization reaches at least 25,000 people through their Haitian operations, IMPACT trips, and Many Hands four Thrift Markets located in the greater Des Moines, Iowa area.

Many Hands is called to transform together, to be love in action, in a broken world.

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