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EDUCATION PROGRAM
The grades for the 2025-2026 school year are finally in, and they are a testimony to the best year ever since the "Better Future Through Education" Program started 16 years ago.
_ Of the 100 students from the 12 schools participating in the Program, 97 achieved a passing grade. that is an unheard of 97% success rate.

_ 10 of the schools had all of their students promoted. One school had one failure, and one school had 2 failures.

_ Of the 9th graders in the Program, 16 out of the 17 students have successfully completed their last year in the Program.

_ We will soon begin to assemble the roster for the 2026-027 school year. At this time, 83 students are slated to return. This means that 17 new students will join the Program as we maintain our 100/year quota.

_ The Department of Education announced this week that the 2026-2027 opening of school is scheduled for September 7, 2026. This is an early date. Usually, the opening of school is scheduled for the first week in October.  

_ For the 2025-2026 school year, we had 25 sponsors supporting the education of 40 of our 100 children. Only 1 sponsored student failed to advance.

HAITI HOPE HOUSE LEARNING CENTER
_ The most significant news about the HHH Learning Center is the replacement of our Solar Energy System Batteries. Because of the violence and political instability caused by the gangs in the country, the completion of this task has been languishing for almost two years. The biggest problem was the safe transportation of the heavy batteries from the point of purchase to Mizak. Thanks God we managed to do it about two months ago.

_ Another significant Learning Center news is the arrival on site of 3 new laptops which were badly needed for the efficient operation of the Learning Center, especially the Media room. Using the same pipeline that helped us get the batteries there, we also got the laptops there in June. The Liaison had to ride his motorcycle more than 4 hours each way to pick them up.

_ The Learning Center also received a new coat of paint inside and outside, the first one since it was inaugurated in 2018. 

_ A major restart of the Library took place last month. It was initiated by a group of young people in the community with the support of the Liaison. It has been reported that the effort  has begun to bear fruit. There is more traffic in the Library. We are working hard at enlarging the Library's book inventory. This time, we are running into a supply chain problem.