Due to the unprecedented strengthening of the Haitian gourde and increased costs of operating the Grace Emmanuel School, JiHM will be raising its student sponsorship amount this spring for the first time in over 11 years. Sponsors will be notified by mail and email in the coming weeks. Steve Mooibroek, JiHM’s Board Chair, shares the reason for the increase in his letter to sponsors below.

It is hard to overestimate the important role that radio plays in Haiti. For most Haitians, radio is the most accessible source of news, as well as soccer matches, songs, and sermons. Haitian radio also brings the whole country together at 8am every weekday, when every station pauses its programming to play Haiti’s national anthem.

Because sponsorship levels remain high, Grace Emmanuel School accepts new students each year, both to fill the incoming kindergarten class and to give more students in different grade levels the opportunity that GES provides.