Looking for a great mission opportunity for your church, school, or business? Want to find a way to change not just one life, but hundreds of lives?
Then consider sponsorship through Lifeline Haiti – not just sponsorship of a single child, but sponsorship of a whole school. By getting together with colleagues, classmates, or congregation members and donating $2,500 a month, you can keep the doors of a school open. And you can ensure that approximately 300 children who are depending on education as their key to a better life will not have to close their books and go home.
Without help, school closure is a real possibility. Since the 2010 earthquake, the cost of food, fuel, and other essentials in Haiti have gone up nearly 40 per cent. As a result, Lifeline Haiti is struggling to make ends meet, and is facing the temporary closure of up to 50 of its 56 schools if funds don’t come in.
Hopefully, the funding crisis will only be temporary. We are working hard to create self-sustaining businesses on the ground in Haiti that will support the charity’s operations so it isn’t as dependent on donations. For example, the Lifeline Haiti cinder block plant that is already up and operating in Chabin should eventually be able to support up to 10 schools. And the coffee plantation Lifeline Haiti is hoping to establish in the Bai d’Orange area of the country could support between 40 and 50 schools, several years from now. We are also hopeful that the Haitian government will soon release some of the foreign aid money dedicated for the redevelopment of the country, and that we will receive some funding that way.
But in the meantime, many of the children at Lifeline Haiti schools are facing the real possibility of seeing their school shut its doors. And that would be devastating, especially since these children have no other option for education., and for many of them this is their only source for a hot meal. In Haiti, government-run schools charge $100 U.S. in tuition – more than many families earn in a year. Lifeline Haiti not only offers families an affordable way to give their children an education, but we are giving them hope for the future. Statistics show, for example, that if a girl finishes her primary school education, her own children will have a 60 per cent better chance of survival than if she had not been educated at all.
Thanks to our ongoing support from Chad & Tim and their work with Kids Against Hunger, we are still getting shipments of food – enough to give each child in a Lifeline Haiti school one hot meal a day. They are working hard to provide us with one million meals this year. To feed all of our 14,000 children this year we are needing 4 million meals. It’s not enough – we need to keep fostering the hope that only education can bring.
So if you’ve ever had a desire to take on a mission project, but weren’t sure where to start, here’s your chance. For $2,500 a month, you can keep an entire school on its feet. We will send you photos and updates on how your school is doing, and someday, maybe you’ll even choose to visit Haiti and meet the students at “your” school firsthand. Please help us make a difference in these children’s lives.
Sincerely,
Bob, Linda & Lifeline Haiti Team....
