Helping Haiti

As part of United Talmud Torah’s Language Arts Program, the Grade 5 students are spearheading a fundraising campaign to support the foundation known as Yelé Haiti.

Haiti is the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere. Most of its 8 million residents live on less than $1.00 per day. Unemployment is close to 80 percent. On average, it costs $60.00 US in tuition for one Haitian child to attend primary school for one year. Right now there are between 500,000 and one million children who do not attend school in Haiti because their families cannot afford to pay these fees.

Yelé Haiti is currently providing scholarship for 6,950 primary school children in various cities and determines which children are most in need of financial assistance.

The students of grades 5 and 6 at U.T.T. will be campaigning to raise money in order to provide a primary school education to the most impoverished Haitian children. Their primary fundraiser will be through the sale of white silicone bracelets purchased from MakePovertyHistory.ca, the Canadian campaign to end poverty both in Canada and in developing countries. The bracelets are being sold for $3.00 each and all profits will be donated to Yelé Haiti’s children’s education project.

In addition, within the next month and a half, we will be holding a raffle where you will have the opportunity to win a host of exciting prizes.

The aim of the Yelé Haiti project is to provide our students with a sense of responsibility, leadership and pride and to nurture their desire to assist and support those less fortunate than ourselves. U.T.T. is committed to helping people of all nations, religions and races and to teaching our students the values associated with charity and giving.