H.I.S Home For Children is an IRS registered orphanage located at Delmas 75, Rue Cassognol #24, Port-Au-Prince, Haiti. Hal and Chris Nungester and 33 full-time staff members administer three homes with approximately 140 kids and maintain a waiting list of needy children. Boys and girls range in ages from birth to 16. While some of the children are orphans, many have been abandoned to the home by parenst who are unable to provide for them due to extreme poverty. Most of the children come with medical conditions resulting from years of malnutrition, but improve quickly with three nutritious meals a day, vitamins, necessary medicines, and purified drinking water.
School is held in the on-site classrooms for children ages 5 and older. Our Christian teachers conduct the classes in both English and Creole, with the older students learning French. The 4 year olds attend pre-school classes in the baby's home. On Sunday mornings, Sunday school classes are taught at H.I.S Home for our children. Following Sunday school, the children attend worship services at Quisqueya Chapel. The chapel also has a wonderful playground facility where the children play several times a week.
Hal & Chris Nungester were married in 1974 and have raised six children. They also recently completed their adoption of a sibling set of three Haitian children. Kaliah Berline, Kaleb Michael, and Kristen Felineta, officially joined the Nungester clan on January 7, 2011. Hal, who has a MBA as well as being a licensed pastor, has worked in youth ministry as well as the business community. He is currently the Administrator at Morningstar Christian Academy in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti to help financially support the work at H.I.S. Home. Chris, who has an MSW, spent 10 years as a Paramedic in Emergency Medicine and was a Licensed Social Worker with an emphasis in child welfare. Chris oversees the daily activities at H.I.S Home, using her experience in mothering, social work, and medicine to nurture the children.