Hope Christian Academy
After the devastating earthquake of 2010, Yvrose and Pierre Richard established the Hope Christian Academy (HCA) a school that serves the poorest children in the community. With the addition of a Secondary School in 2014, it now offers up to 1000 children a free education, health checks and a hot meal – often the only meal the children get that day. Many of the children are siblings but each child has their own story of past neglect or have such great a desire for education that they suffer great hardship just to get to school. Some walk hours to get there, sleep in the fields during the week and go without food; many arrive dehydrated.
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There are no other free schools in this area, HCA gives each child the right to an education; an opportunity to change their future. A satellite school has also been established in the mountains, and this also provides essential language and literacy classes for adults, which have proved extremely popular. During 2019 a further 4 Secondary School classrooms were added, and Vocational training was provided for the first time during summer months to help equip the youth with life skills such as woodwork, sewing, book-keeping and brick laying. This proved a great success and led to the students undertaking projects at Hope House, such as building a wall to separate the Kindergarten from the rest of the school and creating a bread oven.
Donations and Teacher Sponsorship
There are many ways in which you can help to support the school. Salaries for all of the teachers, administrator, cooks and cleaners are provided by donors – you can find out more about sponsoring/ part sponsoring a teacher, who in turn impacts so many lives, here.
Alternatively, you can give a donation towards food to help provide the children with a hot meal each day, often the only proper meal that the child will receive. £25 would provide a school child a meal for a month, and £30 would also cover the transport and cooking cost. We also welcome general donations to enable us to maintain and extend the school buildings, and provide the children with books, school materials, clothes, shoes and medicines.
Alternatively, you can give a donation towards food to help provide the children with a hot meal each day, often the only proper meal that the child will receive. £25 would provide a school child a meal for a month, and £30 would also cover the transport and cooking cost. We also welcome general donations to enable us to maintain and extend the school buildings, and provide the children with books, school materials, clothes, shoes and medicines.
Video of school filmed in 2018
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Update filmed by Yvrose in 2022
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