Over the past ten years, One Small House has led the construction of over forty homes, a hospice, a community health center and helped hundreds of families.

Run entirely by volunteers, we have minimal overhead and no payrolls. Your donations will fund our housing projects. From rural Mexico to poverty stricken Haiti, we are making a big difference.

Help us return displaced Haitian families to a proper home!

It has been over two years since the devastating earthquake destroyed Haiti and left thousands of families homeless. This Spring, we’ll be leading three trips to Leogane, Haiti to provide six families with safe, proper homes. Please help us make this possible by joining our team or donating.

Meet the families we’ll be helping.

Italise and Jean Duval live at Tent City with their six children: Fania (15 y/o), Jude (12 y/o), Merline (17 y/o), Schinaida (11 y/o), Esther (3 y/o) and Lourdine (6 y/o). All of these children attend school. Italise works in the local community by preparing food for the construction workers. Jean works cleaning the outpatient clinic in nearby Carrefour. With your help, we’ll move this family from a cramped tent into a brand new home.

Yvrose lives in Tent City with her four children: Nickenson, Mireille, Mackelos and Withchy. This family has been living in a tent since the earthquake and barely makes ends meet. With your support, we’ll be able to provide this needy family with a safe place to call home.

Lucknor lives with his wife and two children, Loudenine and Wiudy in Tent City, just outside of Leogane, Haiti. When work is available, Lucknor works as a mason. Their current living condition is an old tent that is filled with holes and hardly protects from the weather. With your help, we’ll be moving this kind family into a brand new home.

Hermithe and Michel (34 and 35 years old, respectively) are from Carrefour, Haiti and moved to Tent City (in Leogane) shortly after the earthquake. Currently, he works as a shoe maker, a trade he studied at school. Unfortunately, he was unable to pay for the graduation certificate, and his career has been limited, as a result. Hermithe sells cosmetic products. She leaves the tent each day at 5:00 am to walk the streets of Carrefour selling soap, hair products and other small items. The young couple has two children, Vanussa and Ermisia.

Erika and her busband, Abichet, along with their two young children, Enrick and Woodline have been living in Tent City since the evening of the earthquake (1/12/2010). For over two years, their house has been a small, vinyl tent. Erika works by vending cold beverages to locals and her husband, Abichet, collects rocks and crushes them for use by the mason workers. With your help, we’ll be providing this hard-working family with a proper place to call home.

Ten homes for ten families…A special thanks!

During the last week of 2011, over twenty five volunteers worked hard to provide new homes to ten needy families. If it weren’t for their hard work and the generosity of hundreds of donors, none of this could have happened. And a special thanks to Roger Waters, whose support was amazing! Here are a few photos from one of our talented volunteers, Erica Torres. Check out her entire gallery by clicking here.