Bonjou!

As you read this weekly message, Susan Ditore and I, along with Brian Rindels from Colorado, are on our way to Haiti. If all goes according to plan, we will arrive around 4:30 PM in Port-au-Prince for travel by car to Mibalè in Haiti's Central Plateau. We will be the guests of Fonkoze's CLM staff. For those of you not familiar with CLM, it stands for Chemen Lavi Miyò, which means "A Path to a Better Life."

On Thursday we will attend the official graduation of 98 families from the CLM program - 98 families whose path to a better life was funded by HTF, of which Epiphany is a major partner and source of funding. These families consist of a mother and a number of children, generally three to seven, who once lived in the most desperate poverty on the planet. Prior to enrollment in the CLM program, these women were without hope and their children were greatly at-risk.

These women and their children were enrolled in the program some 18 months ago. Persons from Epiphany who traveled to Haiti in January and July 2012 met many of these families. Prior to being selected to enroll in CLM, these families did not have even meagerly adequate shelter, no income-generating assets, none of their children in school, no reliable access to food, and no access to healthcare. Click here to continue reading 

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