Focusing On Education!

GRODYSH-FOHO Founder and President Claude Reginald Jean has been in Haiti almost full time over the last few months preparing our humanitarian school for the new school year.

In May, we did a casual survey to find out how many children in the surrounding neighborhoods were not in school, and wanted to attend our humanitarian school.  We were shocked.  The first day, we had 300 students wanting to attend!

We now have 423 students attending, including our 95 children at The Future Of Haiti Orphanage.

We have been busy building new desks/benches and temporary shelters to accommodate all the new students.
Anyone donating a desk can have their name on it to show our appreciation of their help and contribution:

Last week we completed a structure which contains 3 new kindergarten classes, each holding over 30 kids (so we have over 90 kindergarteners we are now educating).


After almost 4 years of feeling humiliated, our own children from The Future Of Haiti Orphanage have their own school uniforms.  Now they blend in with the other students who attend from outside.  They are so beautiful and proud!



We still need to build 15 more desks/benches (each one seats 4 children) at $50 each.
We also still need 3 more structures to accommodate all the students (at $1500 each).

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Please Help Us Help Them!

I am in Haiti right now.  I have been here one week.

We have 92 children at the Future Of Haiti Orphanage, and over 300 coming from the surrounding neighborhoods to attend our humanitarian school Institution Humanitaire Theta.  The total number of children here studying during the day is 423.

My heart bleeds for the children of Haiti who have no opportunity and very little hope.

A little boy named Colosse was just brought upstairs this morning by Pappi Reggie because he came to school from the outside, in his nice school uniform with torn up sneakers, without having eaten. His stomach was hurting because he was hungry. We gave him some labouyi (porridge) and water. I asked him in Creole if he was hungry and he said yes. Then I asked him in Creole what his name is, and he said in English, "My name is Colosse (he said his last name too)." I said, "Oh! You speak English?" and he said, "Yes." I said, "You are very intelligent" and he said, "Yes." I took photos of him eating but the connection is too slow to upload them right now.

How many more children like Colosse are there?
Dying for an education, dying for a decent meal, but not complaining or crying, staying calm and proud.

Please help us help them. I want to help them all.

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