Stephanie Crispinelli, a teen from Somers, NY, was in Haiti helping orphans when she died in the earthquake on January 12, 2010. Support from the Somers community helped the family cope with the loss of the 19 year-old college sophomore. Her mission lives on through the Stephanie Crispinelli Humanitarian Fund. Her mother wrote this on the Facebook page of the organization set up in her honor.
My family and I cannot thank you enough for all your prayers, concern and compassion during that time of anxious waiting and over this past year. We are blessed to have so much support and prayer power! We have seen God work in amazing ways this year. Stephanie’s Mission is alive and well even though she isn’t physically here to participate. In one year, she has built “Steph’s Place”, a school in Race Course Jamaica accommodating eighty-seven children age 3-6 years old. She has provided J-term scholarships for three Lynn University students to go on mission trips similar to the ones that motivated Stephanie. She has provided a humanitarian intern project in Nicaragua for a Somers (NY) High School student. She has put a Steph’s Caring Bear into the arms of hundreds of hurting children in hospitals or traveling by ambulance or Angel Flight. She has provided medical relief for children in La Carpio, Nicaragua. Property has recently been acquired near “Steph’s Place” where she will build homes for three families. She will build another “Steph’s Place” school in Jamaica in May. All this and more has been done in one short year to honor and continue Stephanie’s mission of helping the poorest of the poor.
A related story is at LoHud.com, Somers family carries teen's mission of giving 1 year after quake in Haiti. The photo above is from that story.
LINKS
http://www.facebook.com/notes/the-stephanie-crispinelli-humanitarian-fund/january-122011/143191199071221
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