Education is the key to unlock the world of illiteracy, poverty, and hunger that prevails in our Sabaneta neighborhood. We are working hard to help provide school children with the required uniforms, books, and supplies. As we have watched many excellent students grow up and finish high school, we are now helping them pursue their university studies by providing funds to pay tuition and purchase books. We have supported medical students, law students, teachers, accountants, and a host of others. It is one of our deepest prayers that we will continue to have the funds to help these students finish their studies, enter the work force, and achieve great things for their families and for the glory of Our Heavenly Father.
,We love our Sabaneta school! Director Carmen and the staff of teachers are doing an excellent job of teaching our kids and creating a learning environment full of positive energy. I have never seen such a happy, beautiful group of kids. Our school has grown very quickly in the past 2 years; we now have 135 students and we have outgrown the classrooms. Carmen moved her desk into a closet and turned her office into another small classroom. We are so incredibly grateful! In the summer of 2016, we received a grant from Legacy Collective. This grant combined with your support, helped Journey into Hope was able to build 2 new classrooms for the Colegio Carmen de Vicuña in Sabaneta de Yasica, Dominican Republic. We were able to start construction in mid July and got it completely finished and ready for new students to begin school the last week of August 2016. You are helping to bring about a major change in the educational opportunities available to the kids in our very impoverished neighborhood. The population of the students in our school is by design unique; they are about a 50/50 mix of Dominicans and Haitians. We have the very rare opportunity here to raise up a generation of bi-cultural, bi-racial, bi-lingual, and bi-national children who can learn to respect, honor, learn from, and work along with those who are different from themselves. Educating these kids and nourishing their skills, ambitions and dreams is the only way we can ever hope to break the cycles of poverty, prejudice and illiteracy that dominate our neighborhood. Thank you so very much for your help with this project!
Top left- a slideshow of our Summer 2016 addition to the school. Top and bottom middle- current students. Top and Bottom right- students waiting for and receiving new backpacks filled with school uniforms and new school supplies.