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EDUCATION ON THE GO Y2

Haiti Outreach Pwoje Espwa (H.O.P.E.)
Borgne region, Haiti

GO Campaign is continuing our successful partnership with H.O.P.E., an organization that provides children with access to health care and education. Due to the overwhelming results from our first year of funding the Mobile Teacher Program (MTP), we hope to ensure the MTP continues next year. Donations will employ 8 ajan edikatif (education agents in Haitian Creole) who will travel to educational base camps with healthy snacks and educational supplies to teach children reading, math, science and history. The program reaches 400 young budding students who are not only gaining skills and education but are increasingly motivated to seek more education as a result of the program.
"It's heartbreaking to see young children denied education. Your support will allow us to continue this most valuable program that has such a significant long-term impact on the children and our country."
~ Katherine Conway-Turner, H.O.P.E. Director of Education

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Fundraising goal: $45,976

Your donations can provide the following:

$51 A teaching table
$134 4 Blackboards
$320 10 tarps for base camps
$512 Notebooks for 400 students
$1,833 Annual salary for a mobile teacher
$3,692 Year supply of educational materials


FEATURED BIOS


Ansley Joseph is five years old. His mother abandoned him after his father died. Fortunately, his father's cousin has stepped forward to feed and clothe him. He attends the mobile school in Cacao. He has 2 brothers, orphaned and abandoned like him. Little Ansley dreams of becoming a doctor to heal the sick.


Rose Carline Nord is a 5-year old girl from a poor family who has lost their father. She loves to jump rope, run around with other kids, and play with her doll. There are 5 other children in her family but only 2 of them go to school; the others cannot attend because the family can't afford to send them. Little Carline has big dreams though; she loves school and wants to become a judge.

WHY HAITI


With the average family's yearly income around $350, most families cannot afford the annual school tuition, uniforms and books which costs about $50-$100 per student. In addition, schools are relatively scarce requiring children to walk long distances, often barefoot, arriving hungry and unprepared. These factors, along with crumbling and inadequate educational facilities and an extreme lack of qualified teachers, contribute to Haiti's 50% illiteracy rate with only 15% of youth attending secondary school.

The mountainous Borgne region is home to approximately 80,000 people and lacks the most basic infrastructures such as access to clean water, electricity, and sanitation systems. Mostly footpaths, not paved roads, link the 250 villages that are scattered throughout the region. The 114 schools scattered throughout the Borgne region (about 100 square miles) are very "bare bones", without supplies and often have dirt floors and leaky roofs. Many teachers lack professional training, have few educational resources and are seriously underpaid. H.O.P.E.'s Mobile Teacher Program has the ability to reach hundreds of children and make a real dent in the literacy rate in this region of Haiti.