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Fond Verrette-Yesterday

Traveling to the mountainous region of Fond Verrette was a real experience!.  This region possesses some of the most spectacular mountains in Haiti.  The panorama of majestic, but often barren mountains deforested for wood to make charcoal, is almost beyond description.  To me, it looked like another world!  Roads were unpaved and precipitous and dangerous curves abounded!  One had to hold their breath and pray that there would be no oncoming trucks or buses - especially around the curves.

This is a photo of Pastor Joseph and the brethren harvesting potatoes. Carrots and cabbages grow well in this cool, mountainous region.  Water is trucked in and stored in a cistern. MOM provided the funds for this important resource.  Though flooded out in the flood, it was restored and is supplying clean water to the community.

Baby Joseph      Bishop&Baby   Pastor&wife    Sylvio Joseph Family & Home

  Interior of church and musicians. These are photos BEFORE the devastating flood of 2004!The people love to come and praise the Lord.  All of the instruments were washed away in the flood.  Everything!!  Pastor Sylvio is preaching the gospel. The sound system was destroyed in the flooding.

  The church is also the only school for these children.  They need school supplies badly.  The few they had are gone.

  These brothers are hard-working and determined to make life better in spite of the oppressive poverty. 

I met with these brethren and outlined an economic development plan with them.  They insisted that I meet with them after I met with the women to discuss a plan of economic development.

After the service, we all posed for group photos in front of the church and the unfinished building that was to be the home of Pastor Sylvio and family.

Pastor Joseph Sylvio is a young man with a heart for the Lord Jesus.  He needs help with his school and church which were destroyed in the last hurricane.  He needs a generator to provide electrical power for lights in Robio, one of the more remote districts of which he oversees. A generator would enable them to provide adult education in the evening.

The Gospel is being taught, and men and women are being led to righteous living.  Weddings are very important as the first step in building stable family relationships.  Used wedding gowns are needed to encourage the young and old to take this step in changing family structures to biblical family structures.

The schools are woefully inadequate, especially the primary schools.  Without a primary education, the children would never get to secondary school.  They will remain in the chains of illiteracy!  There are no colorful teaching aides for the little ones.  Paper is scarce and pencils are precious.  Can you help us to help them?

Would you like to support this community in Fond Verrette?  If so, you  may select to help this ministry by clicking the donation button here.

Good News

Pastor Sylvio and Bro. Emmanuel attended the CAWST Clean Water Filter Course in Haiti and were certified as BioSand Filter technicians in August 2007!

Fond Verrette - Today

Fond Verrette's Educational Project

 We planted food crops in Fond Verrette that is now providing the salary for 5 teachers in Fond Verrette while MOM  supports4 teacher salaries to educate the poorest of the poor in Robio in a very mountainous and isolated area of Fond Verrette.  Potato Storage for Seed

School supplies were purchased and distributed to 260 children. 

The Fond Verrette School is shown here. Distribution of supplies, classroom session, the teachers and pupils and free lunch from MOM!

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The Robio School  - Located in a very mountainous region,these poorest of the poor in Fond Verrette District received school supplies and lunch from MOM support.  They really need sustained support for a lunch program because the kids are malnourished and hungry most of the time!  We need $240 US dollars per month per school to provide hot meals to a total of 260 little ones.  Will you help us to feed them with a tax-deductible donation?

MOM sponsors 4 teachers for this school thanks to the generous support of the Women's Bible Study at Largo Community Church in Mitchellville, MD.

Economic Development

Under the leadership of Pastor Sylvio, economic development is alive and well.  He holds regular meetings with the church members and encourages and supports their entrepreneurial efforts as seen in these photos. Your donation will help impoverished persons to become self-employed business persons providing goods and services in their community.  Pastor Sylvio provides training for aspiring business-minded villagers, and  makes small investments into their new little businesses to get them started and stabilized. Thank you for helping a villager to become financially independent!

  The Pastor's wife is a very busy business owner!