Below is a letter from two Haitian men, who are living in the Dominican and have started a school in a really poor area. The men are also students at a local college. They need as much help and support as they can get. I have visited the school and they are doing as much as they can and really bringing hope to children in rough situations. They are looking to pay 5 teachers 4000 pesos a month. The teachers work 32 hours a week, so that translate to about 1 dollar an hour per teacher or 129 dollars per month. This project is not under Project Esperanza, but is an awesome grassroots type movement by two men who have very little themselves. Let me know if you all are interested in helping in anys. Sometimes the best way to help is just to spread the word.
From: The Seventh Adventist Church of Muñoz
School of the United Brothers and Sisters of Muñoz
To: The Brothers and Sisters of the Church in the United States
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
We greet you in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ from now and forever and we take this opportunity to present to you our project for children in Muñoz. But with the same parable of Jesus Christ: What you did for the least of these brothers of mine, you have done for me (Matthew 25:40).
Why are we in Muñoz? The answer has many parts: in the area of Muñoz in the Dominican Republic the situation is very serious for students. It’s an area that has the poorest people in the country, and parents don’t have jobs that give them the ability to help their children. Those of us that live in the city of Puerto Plata went to Muñoz and formed a school called The United Brothers and Sisters of Muñoz, which has a director and four teachers. Classes are in two groups – one from 8am to 12pm from Monday to Friday, and another on the weekend from 8am to 2pm. Some of us who are teachers are also university students but because of our love for the children we have given our strength and our time to help them with their future. With your support we can pay for our transportation to the school in Muñoz; and our needs for the school itself are to find pay for the teachers so that they can discover the dreams of these young people, so that they can become professionals, children of God that preach the gospel, and people that know that they door to success in life is education. Our own studies are a testimony to that dream and we are still looking to find the answer for a better tomorrow, with your help.
Dear brothers and sisters, let’s have a conscience for the poor in this country.
May the peace of God always guide your path.
Lafontant Evanz and Jacques Garry
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