Passport out of poverty for the children of our Sister Parish

Dear St. Patrick St. Anthony Parishioners,

It has been noted that education is the only valid passport out of poverty. For over twenty years, parishioners of St. Patrick St. Anthony Church by providing funds for teacher salaries and daily lunches have issued the education passport to the children who are our brothers and sisters in St. Genevieve Parish in Haiti. As a result, a very high percentage of those children have been empowered to begin their escape from poverty and to reach back and help others to escape as well. 

We have a covenant relationship with these children. This means that we have declared that they are as important to us as our own children. So, just as we would not stand idly by if our own children were not educated, we have kept in existence the means by which our Haitian children are being educated. 

Christmas in July is our yearly opportunity to continue supporting our covenant relationship. Without this annual effort, education and therefore, the road out of poverty for our Haitian children will be closed.

We ask again, therefore,  for your generous support so that we can continue to provide for our Haitian children what we are providing for our own children here in the US. Each of them has a right to the educational passport that will enable them to work out of poverty driven snares and pursue lives of personal happiness and service to others.