By Karen Wienberg | Chair, Board of Directors
An exciting fall term will soon be moving into a New Year. These months continue to bring the change, the growth and the path to a new future that your support makes possible.
To ensure that the participants in the Our Garden Haiti training program are able to use their new skills at their own homes, we were able to purchase a variety of garden tools to make that possible. You have helped create a healthy food source and potential income…and a lifetime of knowledge! (Photos attached)
So very exciting to see one of the youth in the intensive Ocean Marine Institute training program using his new found confidence and practicing his presentation skills to teach school students about violence and abuse prevention! THIS is how real change happens. Haitian youth gaining the confidence and skill to teach and inspiring Haitian youth. (photos attached)
This special “Community Outreach Abuse Prevention'' training was launched at the beginning of October. This historic initiative is led by LFBS and done in collaboration with the local Haitian departments of: Social Services, Child Protection Ministry for Women's Rights), UN Policing, and the local area head Judge. Just imagine how this LFBS youth, Eluckson, must feel being able to be a part of this team delivering such life and culture-changing messages!
Along with having an All Staff Meeting, including our Outreach Workers that work with our families north of Les Cayes, we celebrated the 4th Anniversary of Little Footprints Big Steps and recognized the huge steps that had taken place since November 2011 when two young women felt compelled to co-found this organization and activate a whole new approach of working with Haiti’s vulnerable. Dignity. Self-sufficiency. Empowerment. Attached is a photo of the staff that are dedicated to continuing that work, and the co-founder/Head of Haitian Operations, Morgan Wienberg.
News of recognition of that work recently came from the office of the Governor General of Canada. Morgan will be awarded the Meritorious Service Cross Medal. This medal recognizes “outstanding accomplishment and uncommonly high standards that sets an example for others to follow”. What a strong commendation for the work that has been accomplished on the ground and the inspiration for those near and far.
And thanks to each of YOU for believing that the past does not have to mirror the present and future for the determined youth that Little Footprints Big Steps works with. Please share with your friends. This support is the kind of gift that will always be well used :-)
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