What is HAFF?

This is part of the HAFF school campus with the new gazebo that was built in the spring. HAFF is the Haitian American Friendship Foundation. For detailed information about HAFF and all its ministries, click on the HAFF website link to the right. But, in short, HAFF is a Christian Educational Foundation committed to bringing Glory to God on the Central Plateau of Haiti through all the many aspects of Education. HAFF does whatever it can under the umbrella of Education limited only to the time and resourses available in and through the Haitian and American staff.
HAFF's ministries include Formal Education, Non-Formal Education, Mercy Ministries and an Agricultural program in colaboration with ECHO, Educational Concerns for Hunger Organization. For more about ECHO, click on the ECHO website link at the right.
HAFF's Formal Education is the secondary school Bohoc Training Institute, BTI. Part of the BTI campus is pictured above. The school teaches students in the 7th through 12 grades. The students are in their late teens and early twenties and have already had 8 to 9 years of schooling before they come to BTI. This year we have close to 250 students.
HAFF's Non-Formal Education takes place in several programs both at the BTI campus and off campus in communities around Bohoc. Project Healthy Family works in many communities training Haitians to teach those in their home areas about health, nutrition and sanitation. There is also training for literacy teachers and training in Community Health Evangelism. Primary School Teacher Training also works with some of the poorer schools in a number of communities. These schools might have a few to several hundred students. Many of them are in churches. The teachers and school directors are taught how to make the best use of the Haitian National Curriculum and how to incorporate some creative teaching techniques into that curriculum. Agricultural Extention work is accomplished in the surrounding communities. Farmer groups are taught soil and water conservation techniques and introduced to other new techniques and to new plants. The Godly Woman class is based on Proverbs 31 and is open to women from all over the area. The women are taught sewing, baking, cooking, embroidery and other arts and crafts as well as given ideas how they can work to create a godly home. The Young Leaders for God class was just started a year ago. This class teaches BTI students Biblical principles of leadership including servant leadership and how to actually do service projects. Pastor and Church Leader Training happens any time there is a pastor or church leader willing and qualified to teach. Sometimes as many as 125 leaders from over 40 churches come to be taught from the Word of God.
HAFF's Mercy Ministries include a Medical Clinic to meet the needs of BTI students and people in the community. The clinic is staffed by 2 Haitian auxiliary nurses and is open 3 days a week with a 4th morning being devoted to pregnant mom check-ups. HAFF's trucks are also used for hospital runs taking sick and injured people and laboring mothers to the hospital in the town of Pignon, about 6 miles north of Bohoc.
I will try to post photos illustrating as many of the above mentioned ministries as I can. I think I have to post them one at a time. I couldn't figure out how to put more than one photo into this post!!!

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