The Lord hears the cry of the poor.

To all of our faithful partners and all who care about the plight of the poor:

 

The Lord hears the cry of the poor. And we need to raise our voices with them so that those who have ears to hear, will listen.

 

This school year tens of thousands of Haitian students were eliminated from World Food Program’s school lunches.  This follows a government decision to limit recipients of the lunches to only public schools which make up around 20% of the schools in the country. Prior to this any elementary school that met the criteria could apply, including Catholic parish schools.

This affected our school in Buchan Richard, were the Fr.Jim Agriculture Center is located. This has put an extra burden on our much stretched food budget. This means that the children of our parish schools are not eating every day.

Working with the Communal Coalition of schools in Gros Morne in conjunction with the Parish Twinning Program of the Americas we are trying to reverse this situation so that all children who received lunches last year would be able to eat for the rest of this school year.

Would you consider sending the following message to Madame Martelly, the First Lady of Haiti who advocates for Haitian children?

Please click on this link (http://www.premieredame.ht/) which will bring you to Madame Martelly’s website.  On the right side of the menu bar there is an option to contact her.  Select this and you will arrive at automatic contact page.  Fill in your necessary information and make the subject “Restoring School Lunches.”  Copy and paste the message below into the message box and send.

We thank you for your support and would appreciate any feedback you receive.  Please help spread this message to any family, friends and concerned citizens. If you are reading this on Facebook, please share this on your time line.

 

Thank you,

 

Bob and Denise Snyder SDS

 

Madame Martelly,We write to you on behalf of the tens of thousands of Haitian children who have been refused school lunches.  We ask your help in reversing the decision of the Ministry of Education to limit the World Food Program food deliveries to public schools.  All the schools that received food last year should be reinstated in the school lunch program.  These schools meet the program criteria and serve very poor students. Sak vid pa kanpe! Please let us know how you can help these children. Thank you.