Nourishing children. Mind, body, and spirit.
Hope School’s Story
Icene Etienne, pastor and teacher, followed God’s call to share the hope of the gospel of Jesus Christ in Cerca Carvajal, Haiti. Since 2005, he and his wife, Luctamise, faithfully serve the community through their church and school addressing the physical and spiritual needs of the impoverished neighborhood. With the vision and conviction of God’s justice for the needy in Haiti, Pastor Icene and Luctamise long to see each student empowered by the foundation of physical nourishment and Christ-centered education to make a lasting, positive impact on Haiti. Pastor Icene believes in the accessibility of primary education to all families. Unlike the other local schools' requirement of an unaffordable tuition making education inaccessible, Hope School offers a sliding scale tuition. This translates to approximately 65% of students receiving a daily meal and education for free, and the remaining students contributing from their family’s limited financial means. Currently, they have 85 students enrolled. In order to continue in their mission of sharing the hope of the Gospel and nourishing the whole child, Pastor Icene and Lutamise are raising money to support the growing needs of their school.
Materials for Learning
Many educational materials in local languages are often out of date. Funding helps to ensure that students have access to current textbooks that are age appropriate and written in their primary language.
Hope School not only provides education and food for the impoverished children in the neighborhood but it also employs teachers so they can support their families.
Employing Teachers
Feeding Children
Every student who comes to Hope School is fed nourishing meals.
How You Can Help
We are a group of friends who want to help raise support for 85 students to attend Hope School in Cerca Carvajal, Haiti. The total cost to support 1 student to attend school and be fed is $175/year. Please consider supporting one or more students. You can give monthly or a one-time gift. A 3% fee will be charged to cover credit/debit card transactions.
NOTE: We partner with a ministry called Helping Hands Ministries to process your donation. Helping Hands will get the funds to Hope School and provide you the proper tax deductible receipts.
Friends of Christian Hope School have donated fees for payment processing, website domain and hosting, and any other overhead so that 100% of your donation goes to the students.
Click the DONATE ONLINE button and you will be redirected to Hope School’s donation area of Helping Hands Ministry’s website.
Contact
hopeschoolhaiti@gmail.com
