​Haiti Educational Mission Partnership (HEMP) in Paulette

​Formed in July 2010, the HEMP team is composed of three Central New York churches within the Cayuga-Syracuse Presbytery: United Church of Fayetteville, Park Central and Pebble Hill Presbyterian Churches. HEMP is also supported financially by Westminster, Marcellus and Skaneateles Presbyterian Churches and French Clubs throughout the United States.

• The HEMP Team has a partnership with the Haitian grassroots organization called FEED, a French acronym for “Fondation d’Épanouissment des Enfants” or Foundation for the Development of Children in Need”.
• FEED is composed of Haitian professionals who see a great need in their town of Paulette (northeastern Haiti near Cape Haitian and the Dominican Republic border) and donate part of their own salaries to help children and the elderly.
• Members of the HEMP Team have traveled to Haiti several times since 2010, the most recent being October of 2017.
• In 2018 HEMP and FEED formed a partnership with the Vibrant Village Foundation that now has provided a grant so 100 children, at two schools HEMP supports, may have a daily lunch at FEED Headquarters near their schools.
• In partnership with FEED and Vibrant Village HEMP attempts to address the educational, nutritional and medical needs of children in Paulette.​

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With the help of the HEMP Team, other local churches, French Clubs in the USA, individual friends and the Vibrant Village Foundation, HEMP has supported the following:

• Good Samaritan Adult Literacy Center
• Teacher Training in the summer
• Tuition for 100 children (includes uniforms, backpacks & books for 100 children)
• Potable water in two elementary schools and FEED headquarters using chlorine tablets
• Manuals and materials for 100+ preschool children & six teachers
• Roofs, tables, chairs for the FEED headquarters
• Motorcycle ambulance and repairs
• Repair of a village well
• A yearly 3-day Mobile Medical Clinic
• Nutrition program for the children (now supported daily by the Vibrant Village Foundation)
• Funds for a dozen students to continue their education in secondary school
• Two latrines for FEED Headquarters and repairs
• Supplies and educational materials for teachers & schools & soccer balls, jump ropes and other games
• Continuing education for principals
• Secondary education through 12th grade for one student in Cape Haitian
• Salary supplements for teachers at the Ecole Baptiste

Join Pebble Hill, Park Central and United Church of Fayetteville in helping sponsor a child's education in Haiti!

The Haiti Educational Mission Partnership (HEMP) sponsors 100 children in primary school in Paulette.  HEMP receives $5,400 annually from French Clubs in schools in the USA and those funds are designated for primary school K-6 scholarships for 100 of the neediest children in Paulette. Most of those children do not go on to 7th grade and because of that there is a very high teen pregnancy rate in the village of Paulette. It takes $400 a year to sponsor a student to continue their education past 7th grade. Think of sponsoring or co-sponsoring a child? Call the church for more information.