Students’ generosity benefits Haitian family

On Friday, May 1, after the Whole School Mass, Alexis Darbonne, representative from Cross Catholic Outreach, presented a picture of the house that was built with the money Sacred Heart School raised last year during Catholic Schools Week.
Last year, during Catholic Schools Week, Sacred Heart students collected nearly $5,500 in the “Hearts for Haiti” campaign to benefit the Kobonal Mission. This money helped a homeless family in one of the poorest countries in the world to start a better life.
With that money, a Haitian family is now the owner of a hurricane- and earthquake-resistant home, and it owns one-half acre of land; and the children of the family will be able to attend school for free. The family will be taught farming skills and subsidized for approximately three years while learning a trade to continue to provide for itself.