Our Laureate at the "Certificat D'études Primaires"!

One update we MUST share with you is about Stanley, one of our oldest children in the house!

What some of you probably don't know is that Fondation Rehoboth hire teachers to teach our children through primary school years. They do wear uniforms, (as seen on the pictures) because, not only it's practical, they have a real feeling of being in school. Despite financial troubles, our teachers never quit on us; but we are afraid that we may not have them back this year unless we can pay them a little more (they've been asking for a raise, which is understandably reasonable and well deserved.)

This year's success story is Stanley. Stanley did his elementary studies at Rehoboth. Towards the last year of elementary, which is very critical, we set up after-class lessons on top of his regular schedule, which is very common practice in Haiti for students in "Moyen 2 (6th grade in the US)", and registered him with a school so he can take the official exams called "Certificat D'études Primaires" (government exams taken at the end of primary school before Secondary School). He was the Laureate for the school we registered him under; we immediately registered him to "Lycée Marie Madeleine" and he passed again and got in!

We are so proud of Stanley and his achievements! Unfortunately, he will not be one of those kids who will go to school next week because we have not been able to come up with money for anything for anybody yet. Since he is going to Secondary school, it's important that he doesn't miss too many classes. We need to get him uniforms, shoes, a backpack, books, supplies, pay the one-time fee charged by the Lycée and a bicycle, which is VERY important for him to get to school on time and avoid bus money every day, which we may not have everyday. His school is located in the outskirts of Port-Prince in "La Plaine", he doesn't need to take the main road on his bicycle, but it's a long road.

You may not be able to help us with all 11 children; you may not be able to help us with everything for Stanley, but helping with one item on his list would be greatly appreciated.

***We also help two other primary schools located in two different rural areas, very far up the mountains. One in Jean Charles located deep in the mountains of Gonaives and another in Bethel located in the mountains of Morn Cabrit and these are the only primary schools in the areas where they are located. We don't have much, but with the little that we have, we help each other. None of these schools are opening next week or next month, unless a miracle happens because we can't pay the teachers, who are about 12 for all 3 schools. They are paid at about $70-80USD a month (Based on exchange rate of the Gourdes) and we still struggle because of lack of help or self-sustainability. We are still trying our very best to have them open even if it's a month or two late, but we are determined to do so, the sooner, the better.

***Thank you for reading and God Bless you!