Kaitlin Timmins will travel to Haiti in May to help build an orphanage. She will travel with Global Expeditions -- Teen Mania. (Banner Staff Photo by Don Treul Kaitlin Timmins is going to help rebuild an orphanage.

In Haiti.

Following the earthquake that struck Haiti in January, thousands of volunteers have helped rebuild homes, businesses and, more importantly, families.

Timmins will be part of a group that will help rebuild an orphanage. The group, Global Expeditions — Teen Mania, will arrive about May 15.

Timmins, a freshman at the University of Texas at Tyler, explained why she wanted to go to Haiti.

“I have a passion for people, especially people who can’t help themselves,” she said. “It’s the least I can do.”

Not surprisingly, Tim- mins is attending UT-Tyler to become a nurse, possibly to work in an emergency room or with trauma patients. She spent time doing what she referred to as “street evangelizing” in New Zealand in 2007 while still a student at Bullard High School.

Though she has no specific building skills, Timmins said she will help wherever she is needed. The daughter or Paul and Jacque Timmins of Bullard, she is a member of First Baptist Church, which helped sponsor some of her trip to Haiti. Timmins is very modest about the help she will offer in Haiti.

“It’s a small thing, but a lot of kids will be better off,” she said.

Timmins, who works for the law office of Brent Ratekin in Tyler, has no trepidations of traveling to distant countries to offer her help. She also has support at home.

“That’s between her and God. It’s her calling,” said Jacque Timmins. “I just know He will take care of her.”

Kaitlin Timmins and her team will be in Haiti for about two weeks. If every member of Global Expeditions has her determination, children of at least one Haitian orphanage will indeed be better off.