July 2013
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Here at the close of another successful school term, EEO is proud to mark its thirteenth year of providing literacy and special education services to the children of Harbour Island and Eleuthera.  We are currently engaged with over 150 children and their families across six settlements.  
Made possible only by your generous support, EEO's programs are transformational for our students and our alumni's place in their communities.  
 
Please review our 2012-2013 Progress Report to get a feeling for the scope of EEO's efforts and the breadth of services we seek to provide.  

Highlights:

  • EEO underwrites visits by an expert team of interdisciplinary volunteers. This includes an audiologist, a pediatric neurologist, a speech therapist, an occupational therapist, a physical therapist and a child psychologist. 
  • Special Education support is currently provided in six public Bahamian schools through cooperation with the Ministry of Education. 
  • Since inception, EEO has organized over fifty professional seminars for public school teachers to guide and empower them in providing continuing support and awareness of their students' special needs.  
  • Hearing screenings have been performed for over 1,200 students across our service area.  Audiologist have preformed follow up testing for over 50 students identified with hearing loss.  Truly transformational for these individuals!
  • Parent workshops and one-on-one family consultations are being provided where appropriate.  
  • After School Programs are offered in Harbour Island with a cadre of well qualified volunteers.
  • To increase community awareness of our mission, EEO distributes a quarterly newsletter to to participants and supporters.  
  • EEO collaborates with both the Bahamian Ministry of Education and One Eleuthera in promoting the sustainability of the services EEO provides.  
  • Intensive Spring/Summer literacy programs in Hatchet Bay have been offered since 2010 by educators from the Stephen Gaynor School in New York City.  
  • EEO maintains an On-Line Training Campus.  EEO incorporates videos and information from many of our guest speakers, offering free access by teachers and volunteers. Professional development credit is recognized.  
  • EEO works to collaborate with and identify university internship programs that compliment EEO's offerings.  This is a valuable and emerging mechanism for continued growth in the quality of our offerings. 

To read more about EEO 's 2012-2013 school year success in our recent Progress Report click here 
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Our 2013-14 Goals include:

  • Expanding our current one day a week program at Governors Harbour Primary to four days.  
  • Realizing a $12,000 matching grant that has been generously offered to maintain our full-time presence on Harbour Island, which has recently expanded to serve grades six through twelve.  We need to raise an additional 12K to get the 24K needed!
  • Funding for critically needed therapist visits across Eluethera.  We would like to provide Vision Screening in addition to Audio Screening during the upcoming year.  
  • Find a Matching Grant benefactor for Tarpum Bay Primary's new EEO Center.  
13 ways you can help for our 13th year Anniversary

Please consider being part of helping pave the way for the future of the beautiful children of the Bahamas

EEO plays a critical role in the communities that it touches.  Our success is made possible through the generosity of citizens, residents and visitors who care deeply about the future of Eleuthera and the Bahamas.    Children are its future. 

 

We are grateful for your on-going participation and generosity.  We rely on it to continue our programs.  We are trying to grow to meet the needs of yet unserved children.  Please be as generous as you can.  Please promote EEO to others who can be of benefit to us.

 

Please feel free to call or email me with any questions or suggestions you may have.  I would also welcome the opportunity to introduce you to EEO's teachers and students the next time you are on island.  I'm sure you will be as proud as I am at all the lives being enriched by EEO.

 

With care and appreciation,

 

Lang Hudepohl

EEO Director

(305 ) 389-7485

EEOBahamas@yahoo.com