FFTP’s Boca Grande Hope For Haitians Committee Builds Homes and Classrooms in Haiti
COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (Feb. 7, 2025) – The Boca Grande Hope For Haitians Committee achieved remarkable success in 2024, raising funds to construct 20 homes for families in need in Terre Cassée, Haiti, plus three classrooms in Laotchikit, in conjunction with Food For The Poor (FFTP).
Unfortunately, due to the impact of two hurricanes that severely affected the island community on Florida’s Southwest Gulf Coast in 2024, the committee is postponing the 2025 fundraising campaign for building additional homes in Haiti to 2026.
For the past 15 years, the Boca Grande Hope for Haitians Committee has worked tirelessly to improve the lives of families in Haiti. The ongoing gang attacks and the prevailing turmoil in Haiti have posed significant challenges in recent years.
“We sincerely appreciate everyone’s incredible support this past year,” said committee Co-chair Ben Scott alongside his wife, Louise Scott, longtime FFTP donors who are natives of Piqua, Ohio, and wintertime residents of Boca Grande. “While we pause our campaign for 2025, we remain steadfast in our commitment to Haiti and the communities we serve.”
The Scott family, including son Benny and daughter-in-law Stacy Scott, also has raised money for Haiti over the last 10 years in their hometown areas in Ohio, in conjunction with each year’s Boca Grande fundraising events. They recently finished this year’s project by raising enough money to build three more high school classrooms in Laotchikit.
“This is the only school in the central plateau of Haiti offering the equivalent of a high school education,” said Mario Nicoleau, CEO of Food For The Poor-Haiti. “We are deeply grateful for the generosity of the Scott family, the Boca Grande Hope For Haitians Committee, and its donors. Your support has transformed lives, creating safe homes and an environment for learning and growth.”
Wilna, director of Le Reformateur de Laotchikit School, said the new classrooms are a blessing as the number of students has doubled to 600 since FFTP began construction of the classrooms.
“When the school first opened, it was under a tent,” Wilna said. “Now, with three new classrooms, we are very happy because we were very cramped with the children. We had difficulty working. But with the new block of three classrooms, we feel so happy.”
About Food For The Poor
Food For The Poor, one of the largest international relief and development organizations in the nation, does much more than feed millions of hungry children and families living in poverty primarily in 15 countries of Latin America and the Caribbean. This interdenominational Christian ministry provides emergency relief assistance, water, medicine, educational materials, homes, support for vulnerable children, care for the aged, skills training and micro-enterprise development assistance. For more information, please visit foodforthepoor.org.
Michael Turnbell
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