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Founded in
1969, Eben-Ezer Mission has for 34 years made education the cornerstone
of its many community development programs. Eben-Ezer’s Integrated
Educational Program brings teachers together with students and their
parents, so that learning can progress in the homes as well as in the
classrooms. In addition to learning the Eben-Ezer curricula, students
are taught how to teach their parents, as a double-pronged assault on
the illiteracy that is pervasive throughout Haïti. Eben-Ezer recognizes
that the educational process begun in the schools cannot flourish when
students go home to ignorant family members.
Eben-Ezer
Mission also operates churches, hospitals, clinics, small enterprises, a financial
network, a technical services subsidiary, and farms.
Eben-Ezer
is building a new model city outside of Gonaïves, Haïti, on 15,000 acres
of land it controls.
In the
United States, Eben-Ezer Mission is organizing multi-cultural community
centers that will become centers of learning for the Haïtian-American
Diaspora. It is raising money to buy commodities such as rice and beans
to send back to Haïti. And in 2004, Eben-Ezer Mission will hold its
first large-scale conference, Bridges 2004, with 2500 attendees
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