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As part of the Haitian government's mandate to provide a fundamental education for children and youth, it has recently finished building the National High School of Savanette. The Ministry of Planning oversaw construction and funding was provided by the Treasury. The Ministry of Education ensured criteria was met for the 15 classrooms, a library, two labs, an administrative section, and playing field.

Savanette is a rural commune, located in the Lascahobas Arrondissement in Centre Department with a population of 29,717.

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Isaie Jeanty Women's Hospital is located in the slum of Cite Soleil. It is a maternity hospital not equipped to handle the women it admits due to a bed shortage. The hospital doesn't even have a kitchen.

Non-profit Outside the Bowl made a deal with the Haitian government to build a Super Kitchen. The government will provide the property gratis and OTB will feed hospital staff and patients as well as provide to other food programs in Cite Soleil.

Boulevard Jean-Jacques Dessalines - Port-au-Prince, Haiti
509-222-2757

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Miami-Dade offers courses in Haitian Creole at several levels. The introductory class HAI2340 explores basics of writing, focusing on punctuation, spelling, sentence structure, and vocabulary. HAI2341 is for improving fluency in writing in Haitian-Creole for those wishing to become translators.

HAT2802 is for academics interested in discovering syntax and semantics of Haitian-Creole and English languages. HCW2020 is also for academics that want an understanding of Haitian-Creole literature within the context of Haitian culture and history.

MDC Kendall Campus
11011 SW 104 Street - Miami, FL 33176-3393
305-237-2222

MDC Hialeah Campus
1780 W 49th Street - Hialeah, Florida 33012
305-237-8775

MDC North Campus
11380 NW 27th Ave. - Miami, FL 33167-3495
305-237-1111

MDC Wolfson Campus
300 NE Second Ave. - Miami, FL 33132
305-237-3131

MDC InterAmerican Campus
627 SW 27th Ave. - Miami, FL 33135
305-237-6036

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Immigration assistance is accomplished through the Refugee Services Program located in Miami. The agency helps new immigrants land jobs, learn English, get health care, and seek legal advice if needed.

The Florida Department of Children and Families coordinates the Refugee Services Program. It applies for federal grants to provide services and receives them through a competitive contract procurement procedure. Cash and medical assistance lasts for eight months once the immigrant arrives in the country.

Tallahassee, Florida
32399-0700
Phone: (850) 487-1111
Fax: (850) 922-2993
Contact Refugee Services:

Miami 786-257-5173 | Lourdes_Leconte@dcf.state.fl.us
786-457-3561 | Erica_Perdomo@dcf.state.fl.us

Pensacola & Tallahassee 850-778-4065 | Theresa_Leslie@dcf.state.fl.us

Jacksonville 904-485-9540 | Debbie-Ansbacher@dcf.state.fl.us

Orlando 407-317-7336 | Pedro_Padua@dcf.state.fl.us

Tampa & Naples 813-545-1716 | Janet_Blair@dcf.state.fl.us

Ft. Lauderdale & West Palm Beach 561-227-6722 | Miriam_Rosario@dcf.state.fl.us

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Wymm 1530 AM, Jacksonville S Radio Station Creole Programation or Radio Puissance Inter.

Three Haitian-Americans are interested in helping the immigrant community in Jacksonville become informed about current events in the U.S. and Haiti. Ernst Michel, Serge Vilvar, and Vorbes Aleger have raised $500,000 in capital to purchase WYMM 1530-AM.

Scheduled programming will be focused on talk programs and news in French-Creole. The group wants their programming to educate and help with the assimilation of Haitian nationals into the U.S. culture as well as develop an awareness of their country's problems.

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The family that prays together stays together. They also build their lives together in faith and open an orphanage to offer shelter and love to needy children--at least this family did. Jacques and Marie Alexandre both graduated in 1988 from Arlington Baptist College. They would soon found their Baptist church and minister to nearly 900 people on a weekly basis after a humble beginning from the confines of their living room. Their conversion number grew from 31, when still just a home-run project, to now nearly 5000 conversions and baptisms from 1989 to the last count in 2010.

The couple did work in the early part of the new millennium to educate and feed nearly 100 children on the island. 2010 and the January earthquake that killed so many was a pivotal year for the couple and their ministry. Both survivors, they added more Feeding Centers and schools near Petion-Ville and in Leogane. It was during this period that they opened the orphanage in the country's capital called No Place Like Home.

Just 10 minutes away from the Port-au-Prince International Airport, the orphanage currently takes care of nearly 30 children and finds itself in need of assistance to grow its number and remain sustainable. The couple currently use funds meant for construction to keep the facility operational, and count on the kindness of sponsors to keep them running. Donating to the facility attracts no administrative fees, allowing all the money given to go towards the operational costs of running the orphanage.

Address:
Clercine 14-A Impasse, Obama # 4 - Port-au-Prince
1-800-429-3369 ext. 186

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All God's Children International was started in 1991 to give care to orphans who deserve to be loved and cherished. The non-profit organization operates under an Orphan Care Program, which gives help to partner homes where children are cared for all day, an Orphan Prevention Program that seeks to help vulnerable women, widows, and children at risk to reunite and stabilize their families, and an Adoption Program which places orphans with loving families. One may contact them at 404 e. 15th, suite 14, Vancouver, WA 98663, call at 503-282-7652, or visit allgodschildren.org/

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Adopting a child from the EAC adoption agency can be a more seamless matter if one knows the criteria. Children up for adoption are over 3 months old, and they may be adopted by natives or foreigners who are either legal relatives (evidence of which must be shown), or at least nine years older than the child. Relatives over 50 may also adopt, and the families may have in their home any number of children, biological or adopted, already. You may find the EAC at 12608 Alameda Drive, Strongsville, OH 44149 or at adopt@eaci.com

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Nelson Mandela was held in prison for 27 years. He was first imprisoned in Robben Island and was then shifted to Pollsmoor Prison and was later moved to Victor Verster Prison. In the year 1990 he was granted freedom after international pressure and increasing civil strife. After he gained freedom, he became the President of the ANC and went on to publish his autobiography. He later started and spearheaded the negotiations with F.W. de Klerk and asked him to abolish the apartheid policy and demanded the establishment of multiracial elections for year 1994.

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In 1952, after joining the Defiance Campaign against the apartheid policies of the Afrikaner nationalists, Nelson Mandela became the President of ANC's Transvaal Branch. Mandela then used to work as a lawyer and was repeatedly arrested for conducting mutinous activities. From 1956 to 1961, Mandela was prosecuted along with ANC leadership in Treason Trial but later he was found to be not guilty of the charges.

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