Life and Hope Haiti - Working for the education of children at Eben Ezer School

Container is released and emptied

On July 14, Life and Hope founder Lucia Anglade was at the Port Au Prince airport when she heard the port was releasing our container, which had been filled in New Hampshire in April and shipped with help from WTG of Exeter, NH. She left the airport and spent two days getting it unloaded so that now, generators, refrigerators, giant Sperry tents, basketball hoops, paint, tools and tons of shoes, clothes and furniture are at the Eben Ezer School. Lucia even had electricity to unload, thanks to a small generator donated by a man in Maine. A larger generator donated by the Rotary of York will soon have a room of its own to power the school.

Maine student donation a big boost

Students at Marshwood Middle School in Maine have given Life and Hope one of its largest single donations. Students from Eliot and South Berwick raised $18,000 in three events - a dodgeball tournament, a dance and a hat day. Read more in a local newspaper account. Students at Marshwood made a video after the earthquake to inspire people to contribute. This video can be seen on youtube.

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In Haiti

• Half the population cannot read or write
• Half the children do not attend school
• Chronic malnutrition affects 42% of children under five

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Children at the Eben Ezer School in Milot, Haiti, line up for their annual Flag Day parade.

Generator with funds donated by York Rotary

Club in Maine and driven to NH from Conn.

by Thomas Daniels of Southeastern Power.

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See short film about Life and Hope and the

Eben Ezer School made by students in Maine.

Life and Hope looks to the future

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After three months focused on helping the Asile de St. Vincent de Paul in Leogane (near Port Au Prince) and the residents affected so intensely by the earthquake, Life and Hope is ready to start focusing again on its core mission - educating children in Milot at the Eben Ezer School. We will continue to help the quake-ravaged south as well. Our 40-foot container that left from Portsmouth, NH, this weekend included a generator paid for largely by the York Rotary Club and three huge tents donated by Sperry Tents of New Hampshire. These tents, each of which weighs a ton and is about 100 feet long, will be used: as a school in Leogane, for shelter for people left homeless, and perhaps as a center to treat the disabled in Port Au Prince. As Life and Hope moves back to its work of educating children in Milot, we do so realizing that the best hope for Haiti's future lies with children and with education. About a third of the children at the Eben Ezer School now have sponsors. We hope to get them all sponsors by the end of 2010. We believe that supporting Haiti's children with food, structure and education is among the best possible ways to support Haiti.

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Last Updated on Friday, 16 April 2010 17:14

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