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By: Julie Bourbon


It’s been just about three years since Unlocking Communities was founded, but already their work in Haiti—which is based in part on the premise that community members know their own needs best—is helping Haitians to help themselves though access to clean water, clean-burning stoves, and training in hygiene and entrepreneurship. By the end of 2022, the organization projects it will have impacted more than 135,000 people.

“I really see this fitting into mission work. It’s so much about accompanying communities,” said founder Josh Goralski, a Chicago native who was exposed to Haiti as a child through his parish’s twinning relationship with a church there. A Haitian priest stayed with his family when he was 8 years old, and Josh later went to Haiti on a high school mission trip.

“On that trip, I learned that the best thing we can do as foreigners is not do any kind of manual labor,” he said. “I learned that it’s being in the relationships that’s key. Those relationships are so powerful and lead to so many moments of solidarity and transformation and community.”
 

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