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Status: Haiti and the trade school

2024-04-16T19:46:53-04:00April 16th, 2024|

Haiti has been facing a dire situation for several years now, and recent events have only made it worse. The news is filled with stories about the gang violence that has taken over the streets of Port Au Prince, causing the shutdown of schools, businesses, and even the airport. The people are living in constant [...]

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Year End Giving

2023-12-29T23:22:29-05:00December 29th, 2023|

As 2023 comes to an end, it is still time to make a year end contribution - as long as it is postmarked by December 31.  Your donations have had huge impacts on many lives in Northwest Haiti and 100% of your donation goes directly to the school.  Here are some of the things going [...]

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Graduation 2023

2023-07-26T14:04:25-04:00July 26th, 2023|

  Life in Haiti has continued to be extremely hard with continued violence, high inflation, lack of fuel  and food shortages. In spite of the tough circumstances, the Beyond Relief Trade School was able to start school on time and continue the 2022-2023 school year with little interruption.  Graduation was held on July 13 with [...]

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Food distribution

2023-01-18T16:59:25-05:00January 18th, 2023|

As the old saying goes "a picture is worth a thousand words". That is very obvious when it comes to the food distribution that Beyond Relief International Ministries was able to do at the trade school in St. Louis du Nord.  Here are some pictures of the people that received the food, all made possible [...]

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Giving Tuesday Update

2022-12-14T14:06:50-05:00December 14th, 2022|

We reached the goal of raising $5000 to feed families that live around the trade school  Thanks to Cling for their donation that kicked off the match.  That $5000 will go a long way to provide rice and beans to those who barely have enough to eat once a week.  Jesus calls us to feed [...]

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It’s Giving Tuesday!

2022-11-28T23:08:25-05:00November 28th, 2022|

  Waiting for food It's Giving Tuesday! This year as we celebrate all of our blessings here in the USA, the country of Haiti is facing unprecedented levels of desperation as food, fuel, and public services are becoming inaccessible. According to a recent article released by the United Nation News, “a record 4.7 [...]

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God is good!

2022-10-05T12:15:50-04:00October 3rd, 2022|

For the 2021-2022 school year the situation in Haiti was getting worse all the time. But the Beyond Relief Trade School was able to hold class almost every school day. Thanks to the security that the school has been able to have, it has kept the students and staff safe. Schools in the rest of [...]

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Largest graduation class

2021-07-13T16:25:29-04:00July 13th, 2021|

Beyond Relief Trade School held graduation for the 2020-2021 school year on Sunday, July 11. In spite of all the trials during this school year, there were still 170 students that graduated from the trade school.  That was the largest graduation to date! Though Haiti is still experiencing terrible financial issues, the graduates continue finding [...]

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New classes and graduation

2021-01-22T15:38:25-05:00January 22nd, 2021|

The 2019-2020 school year for Beyond Relief Trade School was like no other. Classes started as usual in September of 2019 even though most schools country wide were not able to open due to political unrest. The Haiti economy became even worse so that kept many potential students from registering for classes.  On top of [...]

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Haiti: starvation today or coronavirus tomorrow

2020-05-06T14:14:14-04:00May 6th, 2020|

May 5, 2020 Newsletter  As so many other people, the students and staff at Beyond Relief trade school had hopes that 2020 was going to be a better year than 2019.  In Haiti, 2019 brought high inflation, shortage of gasoline and an extreme shortage of food.  Most schools in the country (especially in Port Au [...]

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