Educating the Children
Two small shools have been started, one in the city of Cap Haitian where we have 75 pupils and one in the countryside. The Government provides some education for the rural people, but not as much as is needed. Often the parents can't pay the fees because they don't find jobs that pay enough to have money for school.
Some of the costs to run a school are:
- 360 HpTH (Haitian - approx 100 USD) to pay each teacher monthly and
- 450 HpTH (Haitian - approx 140 USD) monthly for the principle
- we also need a good place to locate it (land and building - approx 75,000 USD)
There are 5 teachers to pay monthly and a principal for each of the schools.
Our goal is to open 8 - 10 primary schools, one in each of the churches we work with. We also want to open a professional school to help the adults get a profession to survive, such as tailor, dress maker, cabinet maker, plumber, electrician.