Never Taking School for Granted

This post is from Michelle one of the board of directors for the school:

My daughter Destina was adopted from Haiti when she was six years old, she came home right after the earthquake. Today she is a bubbly, fun teenager, and just an all around sweet girl. Over the weekend she had to write an essay about what she enjoyed most about school. As I was helping her edit the paper I loved reading her story. She talked about how she struggled in math but has worked really hard this year and now math is one of her favorite subjects. She talked about being at the orphanage in Haiti watching all the kids go off to school in their uniforms and laughing and how she longed to go to school laughing with friends. She talked about when she first came home and told me that she wanted to go to school, she had only been home for about 3 weeks before she went to school for the first time. She told about how she was bullied in school for being different and not speaking the language, and how she overcame the bulling by turning those bullies into her friends. She said she will never take school for granted because she knows how important an education is and how close she came to never having one.

That is part of the reason I am helping with Carrefour Children's Academy, this school was created to help those children that couldn't afford to go to school have an education. The parents are asked to help out with a small fee or donate time to the school. They want their children to have an education and we want to help. Please consider sponsoring a child to go to school. $20.00 a month is not much to most of us, yet that small amount can change the world for a child.

The real purpose of helping

I was there, alone sitting in my corner, my head bent and my eyes closed, plunged into my reflections because I was crossed and adsorbed by various thoughts, some deeper than others. When suddenly my mind froze on this thought or rather this question, pertinent enough  but also profound: "Why help these children?" It was quite confusing in my head because there were so many possibilities. So many reasons for someone to help others, that I decided to take a bit of my time, to find myself in all these answers. But this was an important war because the answer had already reached me.
And yes, all I had to do was to remind me of these words written in John 3 verse 16 : "For God so loved the world that he gave his only son so that whoever believes in him will not perish but he has eternal life." And also of the second commandment in Matthew 22 verse 39 :"You will love your neighbor as yourself." Or, to my aunt Myrtha who raised me and educated me as if I were her own son.  Or to those people who contribute and participate in the improvement of the lives of children and needy people, without asking them in return. Brandy, Keisha, Margareth, Katie, John, Scott, Eric, Mark, Richard, Debra and so on.
Thus, saying that we love others is different than showing that we love others. Loving others requires action. It is this push that you find yourself in the place of others, which pushes you further to see through the eyes of others, which makes you feel the pain and the needs of others and experience the same feelings of sadness or joys. This pushes you to give the best of yourself and do your best in the one but noble purpose of helping as much as you would have liked to be helped if your parents could not send you to school or if you could not send your children to school to  get what is needed.
Helping others is of the noblest stock and it has no price.

Please consider sponsoring one of our children to go to school, it is a small thing that will bring about great blessings and opportunities for that child.

Education...

"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."  - Nelson Mandela

These children need the "weapon" of education if they are going to change their world. We have undertaken a huge task, to help over 90 children in Haiti receive an education that could change their lives, bring them out of poverty, and give them hope for a brighter future. But we can't do it alone, we need your help. Please consider sponsoring a child to go to school, take action and help us change the lives of these children in Haiti.

The Cathlin Gordon's hutches project for the needy

While Sheree, Michelle and I were talking about the precarious situation in which these children and their parents live. We have come to the conclusion that they also need financial assistance so that they can study better but also leave their old habits of the streets and take taste to the notions of work and financial independence. And that's how Michelle thought of her beautiful sister in law Cathlin. Cathlin Gordon has been raising pets but also meat rabbit for years. She knows so much about animals that she looks like an encyclopedia. And Michelle knowing that she loves children and that she always devotes herself to the assistance of others, she informed her of our project, and without being asked, she offered her help. And thus the project of the rabbits began. We are making great strides and think that everything will be ready for the next month, for the grand opening of the Cathlin Gordon hutches. where we will offer the children the opportunity to have something to eat but also a personal source of income.