Project Results — Teaching the Children

Emmanise Nerestant, 11, has a dream. One day this
shy fourth grader will be a physician, and return to Haiti’s Cite Soleil. “I want to be a doctor so I can help the people of Cite Soleil, because too many of them die,” she said simply.

Classmate Junior Fedno, 10, wants to be a pilot, and Osline Cherisme, 9, wants to have a sewing shop.

Dieula Altidor, these children’s teacher at a school in Haiti’s largest slum, knows that such purposeful dreams are fueled by learning. It’s here that children are given hope for a better life and an escape from grinding poverty. Education is free at Notre Dame du Perpetuel Secours, and children are provided with everything they need, from books to a hot lunch.

The Food For The Poor school educates 345 children from kindergarten to sixth grade. Thanks to your support, it’s an oasis of learning in a poverty-stricken community that needs children to dream of a better tomorrow. Your generosity provides schools with furniture, food, books, teaching materials, teacher’s salaries
and other items essential to learning.

“The only hope for this community is the education we provide here,” said Dieula
Altidor. “Food For The Poor is very important to us. I thank everyone who made this possible; thanks from the children and the entire community."