At Love & Hope Children’s Home, education is one of our top priorities. We believe it’s one of the most valuable assets we can give our children, and something that can truly make the difference between a life of sustenance and a life of success. El Salvador is a county that spends only 3% of its GDP on education. This makes private school the only viable option for a safe, quality education. Here at Love & Hope we’re preparing to send 22 eager young minds back to school in 2014, and we need your help to do it!
Our Education Fund allows us to pair each child with a school that best meets their needs –challenging them while also providing an atmosphere of success. For some, this means studying at a school with a rigorous English program. For others, this means small class sizes and specially trained teachers. It also means transportation to and from class everyday, books, uniforms, tutoring, and school supplies. A gift to our Education Fund helps make learning possible at Love & Hope.
We’ve setup a special site where you can donate to our Education Fund in the name of specific child, or make a general donation. Choose a child you sponsor, or a child that shares a common interest or age with one of your own children. Your contribution will help us reach our goal of fully funding education for our children in 2014. Supporting a child’s education is a direct and immediate way to make a lasting impact on their life, the life of their family, and the country of El Salvador.
Please visit our 2014 Education Fund and give today.
Let us not develop an education that creates in the mind of the student a hope of becoming rich and having the power to dominate. That does not correspond to the time we live in.
Let us form in the heart of the child and the young person the lofty ideal of loving, of preparing oneself to serve and to give oneself to others.
The church must propose an education that makes people agents of their own development, protagonists of history, not a passive, compliant mass, but human beings able to display their intelligence, their creativity, their desire for the common service of the nation.
-Monseñor Oscar Romero
