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WE HAVE THE PASSION TO CONTRIBUTE OUR RESOURCES AS A COMMUNITY!!
In light of the recent 7.0 earthquake that devastated Haiti on the evening of January 12, 2010, we as community feel we need to help in some meaningful way. The Haitian communities need long-term friends who will adopt and help find hope for the next generation. We intend to bring our community together so that we may adopt a permanent program that will bring hope to the Macombre community.
The Haitian people are long-suffering, hard working, proud people and would prefer to work rather than take hand-outs. We can help restore and improve life taken away resulting from the earthquake. We need you to help introduce this idea to your friends, co-workers, and family so that we can start to rebuild Haiti one school at a time.
Rick and Kathy Land (life long members of our community) have been working in Haiti and with the Macombre community over the last twenty years. Like most of Haiti the Macombre school and community has been tragically turned into mostly rubble, where friends and communities are displaced and sleeping near roads, or outside under sheets and tarps. Although homes, school, and churches are gone, a generation of children have been educated and are ready to face the future with hope. Because of the lost of the Macombre Christian Academy, children of all ages will not return to school this year, and many will never return. If we help to rebuild Macombre, help pay teachers, and bring hope, our community can change the future of the entire Haitian community.
Where is the village of Macombre?
Macombre is located outside Leogane and tweny miles West of Port Au Prince.
How was this village affected by the January 12, 2010 earthquake?
Macombre lost it's only high school, along wih pre-school through nine grades. This included eight hundred students and staff of seventy five teachers and workers. The school supported many micro-businesses in the community, including food stalls, tailors, seamsresses, laborers, and craftsmen. Houses and businesses are gone with many persons injured or killed.
What are some facts about the school?
The school opened in September of 2001 and has an exceptional record with the state. There is parent participation, both financially and in school direction. Haitian students begin at age three in pre-school through thirteen grades totaling sixteen years. The school is taught in French and Creole, with English and Spanish required after sixth grade. School hours are 7a-2p for grades six through thiteen and 8a-12 for the remainder.
How is Macombre Acadamy better than most Haitian schools?
Pastor Obinson Joseph, founder and director, expects regular attendance and complete discipline. He hopes to raise future leaders of Haiti. The children receive hot meals daily, even during summer break. They participate in sports, physical and Christian education. |
Macombre, Haiti & Us
