Haiti Orphan Relief Team (HORT)

The Haiti Orphan Relief Team (HORT) is an amazing collaboration of disaster response experts and U.S. based orphan care and advocacy organizations. The goal of HORT is to identify, train and resource Haitian churches to be the direct rescue and care mechanism for Haiti's hundreds of thousands of orphans. This is truly the most effective and scalable response to a need of such great complexity and magnitude.

The primary goal is to better enable Haitian churches to reunite or keep children within extended family structures. For children that have no other options, HORT will help Haitian churches to provide direct care in home environments, not institutional orphanages.

U.S. churches are also part of the solution and are being recruited by HORT to come alongside these Haitian churches in church-to-church partnerships to initiate, strengthen and grow their outreach to orphans in their immediate communities. These partnerships will also work towards the self-sustainability of the orphan rescue and care efforts in Haiti.

Partnering Organizations

• Christian Alliance for Orphans
• Together For Adoption
• Hope for Orphans, a ministry of FamilyLife
• World Orphans
• University of North Carolina School of Public Health
• Sweet Sleep 
• Orphan Lifeline
• Loving Shepherd Ministries
• Love Haiti
• Global Aid Network (GAiN), a ministry of Campus Crusade for Christ
• Lifesong for Orphans 
• Global Orphan Project 
• Orphans First