I first visited Haiti on a mission trip in 2012.  Traveling from Port au Prince to our destination, I witnessed mile after mile of people living in tents and tin lean-tos as a result of the devastation from the earthquake of 2010. When we walked through the village the next day, my eyes filled with tears as I saw indescribable poverty and I thought, what could we possibly do in 10 days to change anything.  At that moment, a sense of peace surrounded me, and I felt the physical presence of God walking beside me and I knew he had called me there.  In my journal that night I wrote “Just to touch ONE life would be worthwhile!”

Since that first transforming trip, I travelled to Haiti twice a year until 2020 when Covid and gang violence made it no longer possible.  I had established personal relationships with translators and residents and, especially, the children.  In order to continue to support, nourish, and love this community who had become my family, I founded a nonprofit - ONE BY ONE. 

So now I do not think of what I cannot do, but what I can do -  transforming lives…..ONE BY ONE! 

Sally Buxton, Founder

                                                           

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