Haiti Earthquake Relief Fund
100% of your donation goes to help the kids and staff at the Ten Kids Haiti home and other earthquake victims. Ten Kids is attempting to open one or two more homes in the next couple of months to aid children who have been displaced by the earthquake. All administrative expenses are covered by the Gibson's so 100% of your donation goes directly to the children.
Recent News:
Haiti Earthquake Relief
Gip and Aaron Jackson (of Planting Peace) made their way to Haiti on Jan. 17th. While in Haiti we were able to get food, supplies and much needed cash to the children we currently serve. Not one of our children or staff members were hurt in a neighborhood where many homes collapsed and countless people died. The children, our seven and about 30 other kids from the Planting Peace houses are all sleeping outside as two of the homes were damaged and the fear of aftershocks is ever prevalent. We were also able to seek out four other orphanages and help them with food and money. All these kids, as well as most of the people in Port-au-Prince, are sleeping outside.
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Featured on KET
Ten Kids founder Gip Gibson and Board Member Holly Brady were featured on KET's half-hour show Connections with Renee Shaw. The show originally aired Friday, January 9th and is scheduled to re-air in the coming months. See the entire show by clicking here.
Contact Us
Contact Gip Gibson at:
Cell Phone: (859) 229-4536.
E-mail: TenKidsHaiti@aol.com
Lexington Office
517 Southland Drive, Suite B
Lexington, KY 40503
Phone #: 859-317-8600
Media inquiries:
Barbara Eilert: beilert@eilertinc.com
(502) 396-2637
About Us
Ten Kids, Inc. was founded by Gip and Kim Gibson of Kentucky.Gip has a background in the arts and entertainment field and graduated from the University of Kentucky in 1991 and the University of Alabama/Alabama Shakespeare Festival in 1999. Gip is the Executive Director of Ten Kids, Inc, serves on the Board of Planting Peace, and was previously on the Board of the Haitian Needy Children’s Foundation.
Kim has a background in Social Work and Public Administration, graduated from Eastern Kentucky University in 1991, Auburn University Montgomery in 1999 and is currently the Executive Director for an agency that supports individuals with developmental disabilities and mental retardation. Kim is the President of the Board of Directors for Ten Kids, Inc.
Meet the kids in our photo gallery!
Planting Peace
Our Partner in Haiti
Aaron Jackson, the founder of Planting Peace, was recently nominated for a “CNN HEROS” award and featured on Larry King.Planting Peace and the chick grant foundation was incorporated as a non-profit (or social profit as we like to call it) organization on October 23, 2003, in loving memory of Charles "Chick" Grant for the purpose of researching, developing and providing sustainable initiatives to impoverished areas around the world. We came to the conclusion, after many hours of intensive research, that small scale sustainable projects encompassing the short, middle, and longterm aspects of each region are the best and only way to provide effective aid to these places in need.
www.PlantingPeace.org
Facts on Haiti
- Haiti is about a two hour plane ride from Miami to Port-au-Prince, the capital.
- Haiti is the most impoverished country in the Western Hemisphere, with 76 percent of its population below the poverty line, in Kentucky that would be over 3 million people (KY has about 4 million residents).
- Most Haitians live on less than $2 per day.
- 95% of Haiti's 8.5 million people are descendents of African slaves.
- An estimated 300,000 children are child laborers.
- 1 of 14 children die before their first birthday.
- 1 out of 8 children die before the age of 5.
- Life expectancy – 49 years , lower than Sudan.
- 50% of primary-age children are in school.
- Less than 2% of children finish secondary school.
- 40% of the children do not get regular vaccinations for childhood diseases.
- Its people have less access to clean water and sanitation than residents of Ethiopia.
- Chronic malnutrition affects 42% of children under the age of five.
- Haiti has the third-highest rate of hunger in the world, behind Somalia and Afghanistan.
- Kentucky has about 40,000 square miles with over 4 million people.
- Haiti has about 11,000 square miles with over 8.5 million people, half the size, double the people.
- Port-au-Prince, the capital, has about 60% (5 million) of the total urban population.
- A greater percentage of Haitians live in poverty than citizens of the war-ravaged Congo in Africa.
