With learning institutions across Haiti wrecked by the earthquake and many indefinitely out of session, Haiti's students are fearing that their futures have been buried among the rubble.

With help and support from the Tortola Rotary, the Foundation has broken ground and will now be able to complete construction on the new school in La Hatte. The building will also serve as a hurricane shelter and house offices for The Good Samaritan Foundation of Haiti, Inc. in Haiti.

The building of the new school and the participation and gratitude of so many desperately poor people with little or no hope of bettering the lives of their families may be measured in several ways.

*Attendance in the school and the consistent attendance that will be possible once the building is complete will improve test scores and children passing from one grade to the next.

*Fewer children will leave the community to go to school in the city as house servants or restavecs in exchange for education.

*Parents may not have to leave the community to seek jobs to pay for schooling of their children.

*With free education comes the possibility that families will be able to use their meager monetary resources to care for their children, and fewer may be sent to orphanages as their only hope for consistent meals, healthcare and a better life.

The gift of a school building will not just help the children of today or tomorrow but for generations of children. Haiti has long been a country of poverty and upheaval it is our belief that by educating Haiti's future, it's children; Haitians will be empowered to bring their country into a more stable and prosperous state.

Your donations allow these children to attend school, and their hope for the future to be brighter with more opportunities.

What you do DOES make a DIFFERENCE!