HOPE FOR HAITI: EDUCATION - HHE
100 full scholarships--$220-- for inner-city Haitians - St. Columba Parish, Oakland, Ca. (click to go to parish website)
100 full scholarships--$220-- for inner-city Haitians - St. Columba Parish, Oakland, Ca. (click to go to parish website)
LOCATION: Four schools in Gran Ravine, Port-Au-Prince, Haiti
SPONSOR: Hope For Haiti:Education Committee, St. Columba Parish, Oakland, CA 94608 510-654-7600
CONTACTS: Tom Luce, Haiti Liaison, tomfluce@gmail.com; 510-229-3571; Elena Gaudet, Treas., educateHaiti@aol.com;
DESCRIPTION: Hope for Haiti:Education financially sponsors 100 students to attend school in Haiti. It is a project undertaken by the Haiti Committee at St. Columba Catholic Church in Oakland, California, and the Community Human Rights Council of Grand Ravine, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The students are selected from a pool of severely impoverished families who otherwise couldn’t afford to attend school, exposing them to being drawn into street life, servitude, or sex trafficking. The scholarship includes full school supplies (books, pencils, backpack, uniform) and tuition.
TO DONATE: Please send a tax-deductible check to St. Columba, 6401 San Pablo Ave. Oakland, CA 94608. Please write “Haiti Committee” on the memo line. Basic scholarship = $220. Donations of any amount welcome!
MISSION: As members of St. Columba parish whose mission is “through African-American traditions, we are moved by the Spirit to serve”, we work with our sisters and brothers in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, leaders of the interfaith, non-violent, non-partisan Grand Ravine Community Human Rights Council (GR-CHRC), to achieve their #1 goal of providing education to the most impoverished children in their community. With this project we intend to establish mutual sharing of our lives as faith-filled people, concerned with promoting dignity and human rights in the areas of reducing child enslavement, violence, and poverty in Haiti. We also seek to establish a faith partnership with St. Bernadette Parish, the parish in Martissant covering Gran Ravine, and its school, St. Mary Magdalen in Gran Ravine.
SPONSOR: Hope For Haiti:Education Committee, St. Columba Parish, Oakland, CA 94608 510-654-7600
CONTACTS: Tom Luce, Haiti Liaison, tomfluce@gmail.com; 510-229-3571; Elena Gaudet, Treas., educateHaiti@aol.com;
DESCRIPTION: Hope for Haiti:Education financially sponsors 100 students to attend school in Haiti. It is a project undertaken by the Haiti Committee at St. Columba Catholic Church in Oakland, California, and the Community Human Rights Council of Grand Ravine, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The students are selected from a pool of severely impoverished families who otherwise couldn’t afford to attend school, exposing them to being drawn into street life, servitude, or sex trafficking. The scholarship includes full school supplies (books, pencils, backpack, uniform) and tuition.
TO DONATE: Please send a tax-deductible check to St. Columba, 6401 San Pablo Ave. Oakland, CA 94608. Please write “Haiti Committee” on the memo line. Basic scholarship = $220. Donations of any amount welcome!
MISSION: As members of St. Columba parish whose mission is “through African-American traditions, we are moved by the Spirit to serve”, we work with our sisters and brothers in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, leaders of the interfaith, non-violent, non-partisan Grand Ravine Community Human Rights Council (GR-CHRC), to achieve their #1 goal of providing education to the most impoverished children in their community. With this project we intend to establish mutual sharing of our lives as faith-filled people, concerned with promoting dignity and human rights in the areas of reducing child enslavement, violence, and poverty in Haiti. We also seek to establish a faith partnership with St. Bernadette Parish, the parish in Martissant covering Gran Ravine, and its school, St. Mary Magdalen in Gran Ravine.
