Background

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The needs of Haiti’s children have always been tremendous over the years and have gotten greater after the passage of this killer-earthquake of January 2010 as this natural inclemency took away what little these survivors have had.  Recent statistics, published about Haiti, have shown that half of Haiti’s nearly 10 million people are younger than 18 and are in needs of schooling. Furthermore, only half of these youngsters have ever attended school while only 2% finish high school (UNICEF statistics by country).

Other official reports demonstrate that Haiti’s population was about 9.8 million according to UN 2008 estimates.  Hope made a research on Haiti’s education and argued over 50% of Haiti’s population are of school age while the literacy rate is less than 50%.  Approximately 70% of the people live in poverty, with an average annual income of $400 per year. 15% of all children in Haiti are orphaned or abandoned (“practically orphaned”(UN’s on Haiti, 2008).  Most estimates put the number of orphans in Haiti prior to the January 2010 earthquake at about 380,000.  Experts now estimate that the number of orphans has doubled to about 750,000 since the earthquake.es and the stability of children.

• In the devastation left after the Haiti earthquake, the heaviest blow is falling on the weakest and the more dispossessed while children make a big chunk of these diverse groups.  Already poor, underfed and under schooled, about tens of thousands of Haiti’s children now face the cruelest catastrophe as many of them have become orphans after the passage of this killer-earthquake there.  A great number of them have seen their parents vanished and/or disappeared in that chaos alone. Some of them were not been spared from being homeless. As a matter of fact, many have lost their homes, their friends and mostly their sense of security. 
  
• After assessing these complex situations, Morne Pele Christian School envisions the call for every compassionate heart to lend a helping hand to these populations of youngsters and children as they are searching for ways and means to help alleviate the suffering of orphans and needy children to offering support to families which had taken on these children.
  
• We know that is a task we could never accomplish without the helping hand of friends and philanthropists like you. We indeed pray that you will be encouraged to partner with us so we could brighten these children’s future.
  
• Certainly, there are kids who are just wandering the streets all over the world right now, especially in Morne Pele. It remains important to find them.  We need to hug them.  We need to give them blankets.  We need to tend to their health problems,” as Stern argues. It has been argued by some experts that who are racked by hurricanes, floods, riots and mudslides or by major disaster would be lingered with emotional wounds. Simply put, they don’t know that tomorrow may be a better day.  They need to be convinced of that.”