Our Story

Vital Steps Haiti began as a love story, a calling, and a shared promise. Roody and Rosie first met in Haiti as teenagers — Rosie on a mission trip, and Roody volunteering as a translator for the team. Even then, their hearts were drawn to compassion and service. What started as a simple connection grew into a partnership rooted deeply in purpose. They fell in love, married young, and went on to raise five beautiful children together. Along the way, they walked side by side through nursing school, strengthening the values that united them from the beginning: caring for people, easing suffering, and showing up where help is needed most. For Roody, the desire to help runs deep. After losing close family members because medical care simply wasn’t available, he made a quiet promise: to become someone who could stand in the gap for those who had no support. Nursing allowed him to do that, one patient at a t ime. But both he and Rosie began to feel a deeper truth — that their impact was meant to stretch beyond hospital walls. Together they stepped into entrepreneurship, growing their skills, resources, and reach. But even in business, they felt God shaping something bigger in their hearts. They couldn’t ignore the need they saw — children without proper nutrition, families without safe shelter, communities battling hardships Roody once lived through. That calling, combined with their shared purpose and their roots in Haiti, became the seed that grew into Vital Steps Haiti. Vital Steps Haiti was founded by Roody and Rosie as a bridge — connecting resources, compassion, opportunity, and hope to the communities that shaped their own story. It is an expression of their faith, their gratitude, and their lifelong commitment to helping people meet their most essential needs while building a path toward stability, education, and growth. Rooted in love and lived experience, Vital Steps Haiti is more than an organization. It is a mission. A promise. A step toward a better future — one family, one child, one community at a time.