Hope Center Institute of Petite-Anse
ICEP
This school is founded by Reverend Vilmer Paul in Heavenly Light Church. The creation of this school is to respond to the need of providing education for the last group in the society who has no other way to frequent a school than receiving education for free. As my church is formed almost of this class of people, therefore my church is full with uneducated people. The more uneducated people you have, the more your pastoral work is intense, because you as pastor represent a lot to these people. It is also quite clear that uneducated people are far from knowing how to remove themselves from poverty and suffering. Now how to reduce the amount of alphabetization? People want to invest in alphabetization for the adult, but I prefer the kids because if we do not start with the kids, we will always have to work with the adult while they are almost dying. We start 2years ago, and we have 150 kids attending the school this year.

What do we have as problem to keep this school moving forward?
1- salaries for teachers and workers (but a man of God is giving some money to help in that every month, we still need some)
2- repairing and making preparation during the summer for the fall semester (again we have some, but not enough)
3- having a place for the school to meet without problem (we start the building, but we still need to work on it)
Our vision for this school.
1- keeping the school working every year
2- having the building finish for the school
3- having more classes
4- provide a Christo Centric education to these kids
5- providing a good education for this fourth group of the society
6- providing a profession for the kids while they are continuing with their school

Thanks for taking time to read about our school ministry in Haiti.

Vilmer Paul