Posts Tagged With: education
School Days
As summer fast approaches and the current school year winds down to a close, I find myself thinking about the students I met on a recent trip to the Divine Shelter Schools throughout Haiti. Cross International helps this network of 18 Christian schools provide a quality education and daily, nutritious lunches to more than 5,000 … Continue reading
Partner Profile: Pastor Juinato Genada and Divine Grace School for the Deaf
From malnutrition to unemployment to problems with homelessness, the challenges in Haiti are well-documented and attest to the daily hardships confronting the country’s people. But imagine how much more difficult life is for those who also face a disability. For Haiti’s deaf population, survival is an almost insurmountable challenge. That’s why Cross International supports Divine … Continue reading
Faith in Action
You’d never know it by looking at her now, but not so long ago Edah and her family were in dire straits. Her father died, leaving her mother and two older brothers with no income. Her mom did not know enough about her rights as a widow, and the family’s house and property in the … Continue reading
Helping Haitians Help Themselves
In a show of support for MUCH Ministries’ self-help program for poor families in Jubilee, Haiti, Cross ordered a shipment of 5,000 journals from their trade school, where local Haitians have been learning to make various items by hand so they can earn a small income. The ministry responded with this email: Dear Cross, I … Continue reading
Dreaming Big through Education
We often write about the value of education in the struggle against poverty. But I think the message is more compelling when it comes from the mouths of the Christian missionaries who are actually working with the children of the poor on a daily basis in Cross-sponsored schools. Here is a letter from a staff … Continue reading
New World, New Life
We recently received an update from our partner Teresa Susong, founder of FACES: New World Christian School on the outskirts of Quito, Ecuador. Cross International currently supports 35 of their students, who are child laborers from indigenous Quichua Indian mountain communities. New World School offers night classes so these students are able to work during … Continue reading
Gospel Focus
Our intrepid spies crossed the Bolivian border to get front-line news from Major Sixto Ali, commander of the Altiplano Division of the Army… …That is, The Salvation Army. Sixto’s strategic plan for the William Booth Evangelical School and Hogar Remedios Assin orphanage in Villa Cosmos (both of which are supported by Cross) can be summed … Continue reading
From Haiti with Thanks
Here’s a letter, translated into English from Creole, that was handwritten by a Haitian boy who attends a Cross-sponsored Calvary Baptist Church (CBC) school: I am a student at Foye Divine. My name is David. I am the third child of my mother and father. I am 14 years old and I’m in sixth grade. … Continue reading
Reptile Surprise
Here’s a delightful excerpt from a letter we received from our ministry partner Annie Chikhwaza, who runs Kondanani Children’s Village in Malawi: Good news for Kondanani! Our laboratory is ready. The children love it but…..the other day there was a real bad smell in the school area. At first we thought the gardener had put … Continue reading
