The Colorado Haiti Project, Inc, was founded in 1989 by Fathers Dayle Casey and Ed Morgan, at the time both parish priests in the Episcopal Diocese of Colorado, and Father Octave LaFontant of Port-au-Prince, Haiti to “provide and conduct missions for medical and construction assistance to Haiti.” In November of 1995, the founders officially incorporated the Colorado Haiti Project as a non-profit organization.

Dayle and Ed made their first mission trip to Petit-Trou de Nippes in 1989. Petit-Trou de Nippes is situated about 90 miles from Port-au-Prince along the north-eastern coast of the southern-most peninsula. Fr. Octave met them in Port-au-Prince and off they went. What Ed and Dayle found were roads that were (and still are) little more than tramped down pathways with 2-to-6 foot ruts left from cars, carts and previous rainy seasons. During the ten-hour trip to Petit Trou, they had to cross three rivers and stop often, waiting for people walking along the road and domestic animals to move to the side so the car could pass.

When Dayle, Ed, and Octave finally reached Petit Trou, Dayle and Ed agreed that this site was too far from civilization to be a mission site. Octave replied, "If God wants us to come, we'll come! And besides, I have already purchased the land!"

So it was that the mission of St. Paul's was started in Petit Trou de Nippes, Haiti. For the past fifteen years, medical mission trips have made their way along the always bumpy and often flooded road to Petit Trou. In 1995, Ed and Dayle, along with a board of directors, created the 501(c)(3) non-profit entity, the Colorado Haiti Project, Inc.

Shortly after incorporating the Colorado Haiti Project, in 1996, a primary school was started at the mission site. With the school, the Konbit Sponsorship Program was begun to help fund the education of children in the area.

In 1998, the Right Reverend Winterrowd, then Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Colorado, traveled to Petit Trou de Nippes. He was so touched by the needs of the people in that area, he granted money to the Colorado Haiti Project to build a church. In 1999, St. Paul's Church was completed and consecrated by the Right Reverend Jean Zache Duracin, Bishop of Haiti.

Today, the Colorado Haiti Project, Inc. continues to send medical mission trips to Petit Trou, twice a year, helps fund the school and hot lunch program through the Konbit Sponsorship Program and has started a capital campaign to raise funds to build a proper school building for both primary and secondary classes, a women's center and vocational school, a medical clinic and a potable water project all for the community of Petit Trou de Nippes.

Recently, the Colorado Haiti Project has expended its scope to include assistance to reopen the Episcopal Seminary in Port-au-Prince, Haiti as well as working with the Trinity School of Music in Port-au-Prince to help supply music and instruments for the students.

The Colorado Haiti Project, Inc. has made a huge difference in the lives of many Haitians, however, we would like to do more. Recently, a sister parish, St. Basil's in Gonaives lost everything except the priest and the structures in the floods. We would like to help them recover from this devastating blow. To do all this, we need your help!