Anis Zunuzi School Honors & Grants

2005 $15,000 Bridgeway Foundation Grant

The Bridgeway Charitable Foundation has graciously offered a significantly increased grant for this year. The school is very grateful for this opportunity.

2005 Scholarship Stories

These are the stories of two little girls who are receiving scholarships at this time.

Sabrina Joseph
Sabrina is probably 7, although her exact age is not known. She is in grade one. She enjoys reading with her friend and playing hide and seek. Her favorite foods are spaghetti and cornmeal. She has two sisters and one brother at Anis Zunizi. Her mother sells some food staples that people buy here on a daily basis and makes enough to feed her family if she is lucky. She is a great cook and sells her food sitting on the roadside in front of their house: rice and beans with spices. Sabrina's father is a bricklayer but makes little money from that, as work is intermittent.

Lovely Pierre
Lovely is truly lovely, fourteen and in grade 8. She has five brothers, and is the second oldest child in her family. The family lives together not far from the school. Lovely loves to read, sew, draw, and dance. She enjoys school and all her subjects. She would like to go on to grade 13 and then study agronomy. Many girls drop out of their school in their early secondary years either because they become pregnant or their families cannot afford to send them. The younger children are usually given priority. Lovely will need support emotionally and morally to help her avoid these difficulties. Her father works for the telephone company, but wages are low and transportation costs high, so the financial support will be a great assistance to this family to be able to keep Lovely in school.

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2004 $10,000 Bridgeway Foundation Grant

In the summer of 2004 an all day dialogue on Haiti was held in Houston, Texas. Many distinguished organizations presented stories of their incredible work in Haiti. The topics included efforts to nurture and mazimize Haiti's existing resources. The Mona Foundation presented their efforts to support the Anis Zunuzi school in Haiti. A recent development, since this effort, has been the receipt of $10,000 from the Bridgeway Charitable Foundation earmarked for Haiti. The following expenses will be covered by this grant:

• Teaching staff salaries: $4,112
• Training and training Materials: $635
• Internet connectivity for the year: $1,020
• Cantine subsidization for the year: $2,500
• Media and sports equipment purchses: $1,740
• Total proposed budget for one year: $10,000

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2003 Scholarship Grants

The Mona Foundation has provided $2,310 for scholarships for the school.

2002 Scholarship Grants

The Mona Foundation has provided $2,600 for full scholarships for 11 students for this year.

2000 Scholarship Grants

We have forwarded $1800.00 towards scholarship and other needs of the school in the past two months. Their Home Page describes their needs in full. Most urgently, however, the school is seeking volunteers for the coming year to fill several administrative and teaching positions. Let us know if you know of anyone who may be interested.

Through the support of many individuals, Mona Foundation is also proud to have sent a grant of $1,411.00 to Zunuzi school on March 29, 2000.

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