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Wyclef Jean Brings Help, Hope To Haiti
Jean's Yele Haiti organization — launched last year to find and fund groups working in education, health care, and the environment - is already making a difference in the neediest communities of Haiti. It is an increasingly visible - and audible - force for change across the country.
"Jean describes his motivation for starting Yele Haiti in broad terms. "I think what happens is you're born and you die, but there's this little space in the middle and from that little space emerge some of the greatest people with the greatest responsibilities.How did I get to that space? I don't know. My dad was a minister so he was always talking to us about giving.... I cameto my country to help." Today, Jean sees Yele as an expanding movement. "I always say that Yele Haiti is not a charity. It's a movement. We don't really need your charity, we need your movement. So physically do something. "Yele partnered recently with the Haitian cellphone company ComCEL to provide scholarships and other support for youths attending L'Athletique d'Haiti, a sports and tutoring program, and to rebuild schools and provide scholarships for children in Gonaives, a town devastated by floods in 2004.
Robert Duval, a former local soccer star now revered for his creation of L'Athletique d'Haiti, says his group gets a boost not just from the funds Yele provides. "We've been here eight years, and we've been doing a relatively good job," he says, "but now Wyclef puts so much electricity into the job that we get to be known more, and people get excited, and then the best comes out."
Today, through Yele, 20 schools have been rebuilt, more than 2,000 people who weren't regularly receiving basic food now are, 1,700 previously unemployed men and women of all ages are working to clean the streets, and 3,754 students are receiving scholarships. With ongoing support from ComCEL, Yele has pledged to almost double the number of scholarships in 2006, and is rolling out program expansions in higher education, environmental awareness, sports, food distribution, and HIV prevention.
WFP and Wyclef Jean's "Yele Haiti" distribute food
The launch of a new joint food distribution programme in two of the Haitian capital's most violent and vulnerable neighborhoods was announced today by WFP and Yele Haiti, founded by the Haitian singer/songwriter, Wyclef Jean, after the devastation of Tropical Storm Jeanne in 2004
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PRIMARY SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIPS
At present there are almost one million children and youth out of school because their families are unable to pay the fees, and an equal number are under constant threat of dismissal because their parents have trouble making regular payments.
Did you know?
In Haiti, 65% of the population has no level of education; 25% have a level equivalent to 4 years of primary education; 10% have a higher level.
In Haiti 95% of all schools in the country are fee-based – even for the poorest of the poor more
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