Can We?
* English Class – Scholarships
Most foreign trade and most visitors to Haiti are related to the United States. Becoming fluent in English is one way to improve one’s status in Haiti. The Fond Doux Foundation provides scholarships to an English language school in Miragoâne or Petit-Goave. This is a program that we would like to expand.
* University Scholarships
Several Fond Doux students are receiving a university education sponsored by persons associated with the Fond Doux Foundation. The Foundation would like to regularize this program so that deserving graduates of Fond Doux Secondary School have the opportunity to obtain a university degree and improve the entire prospect for the village.
* Training In Animal Husbandry
Because so many goats died in an earlier “Kids” for Kids Project, a “Heifer Project” like program of distributing goats in the village, a program of classes in goat care has been included in our mission trips. More recently chicken care has been added.
* Community Health Awareness
Originally on each mission trip FDF mission team members conducted classes with translators on First Aid, Preventive Medicine, and Pre-natal care. Now most of these are taught directly by a Haitian registered nurse paid for by the Foundation. Classes now also include Birth Control and Aids Prevention.
* Music Classes
Music education is virtually unknown in rural Haiti. Erin Engel has developed a program of teaching young Haitians to become the teachers of music basics. She started with recorders, inexpensive instruments, teaching students how to read music.
* Computer Usage
Brent Engel has been involved with a local Haitian Schneider Saint Surin in introducing computers into the village of Fond Doux. With the access to technology, education beyond the country of Haiti is accessible.