Good Morning.
As you know I have been working in and with Haiti for the past 16 years. The organization that my wife I first created after returning to the US was H.E.A.R. (Haitian Educational Aid and Resources) through which we brought Haitian students to the US to study for their Masters degrees. This program went for 8 years until COVID curtailed visas and the ability to study on campus.
Our second non-profit, BonZeb, Inc. was created to help ease the unemployment and environmental issues facing everyday people living in rural areas of Haiti. In 2018 BonZeb added H.E.A.R. to its mission and the mission changed to focus on educating Haitians in Haiti.
These two efforts go hand in hand and are attempting to address three major issues in Haiti: lack of living wage jobs, lack of opportunities for the poorest children to attend school and the environment.
We continue to work on all three goals even in the midst of the chaos and violence that wrecks havoc on planning, timelines, deliveries, etc. But we keep making progress and little by little. Your financial help is much appreciated and needed for these efforts to continue.
School started this week in Haiti. Our workers and neighbors in Boucanitiste and Bernaco have sent their children off to the day school El Shadai Ecole, where we have been offering school assistance for the last few years. With this help they have been able to hire a second teacher, but more is needed (textbooks, school supplies, etc.). A five hundred dollar gift will go a long way to making this year a much better experience for the 100+ students there.
We also are assisting a small school in Hinche that benefited from the last shipment of school supplies that we sent last year, but only arrive last month. We have been asked by more pastors and teachers to try and help them with their own schools, but this requires more funding.
On top of these efforts we have students on scholarship in Les Cayes, Hinche, Cap Haitien and Gonaives and one student going into his last year of University in Port au Prince. It has taken him a few extra years to get to this point due to the gang activity in the capital that has closed schools, kept professors and students from being in class regularly. But he has persevered in his dream to have his degree and use his education to help Haiti move in to a promising future. He needs $500 to pay this years tuition. Can you help?
As the days are getting shorter and we enter through autumn into winter we thank God for all our blessings and offer Thanksgiving for our families, friends, freedom, we can also keep in mind all those who have the same dreams that we do. All they need is a little help making those dreams become reality.
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