Hope for Haiti Education

Bruner Memorial Scholarships
Grand Ravine, Martissant, Port-Au-Prince, Haiti

Full scholarships to the most impoverished Haitian children.  This program was named the “Bruner Memorial Scholarships” in honor of the brutally murdered 2nd President of the Community Human Rights Council of Grand Ravine (CHRC/GR) whose members voluntarily organized and managed the scholarships keeping our children safe from the violence of the streets.

Years 1 - 2  (2010-2013)  
= 170 scholarships in 5 local private, religious schools, including Catholic mission school, St. Mary Magdalene
Years 3 - 8  (2013-2018) 
= 100 scholarships in 4 local private, religious schools Including St. Mary Magdalene
Year 9   (2018-2019)
= 50 at one original school, St. Mary Magdalene,  Catholic school, a mission of St. Bernadette parish
Year 10  (2019-2020)Year 10 was upset by violence and Covid-19, but was completed with special arrangements. 
= 50 at St. Mary Magdalene & Year 1, 18 at St. Bernadette, the parish school, thanks to a special donor 
 Note: classes did not begin until January of 2020 due to political violence and new students were added for the half-year
Year 11  (2020-2021) Completed funding for this year,
=50 students at St. Mary Magdalene, and Year 2, 18 at St. Bernadette parish school.
Year 12 (2021-2022)
=50 scholarships at St. Mary Magdalene and Year 3, 18 at St. Bernadette. $272 per scholarship.. 
Due to Covid-19 we had to obtain donations, either from individuals, or from groups. 
Year 13 (2022-2023)
= 50 scholarships at St. Mary Magdalene and Year 4, 18 at St. Bernadette. $272 per scholarship
Year 14 (2023-2024)
= 50 scholarships at St. Mary Magdalene and Year 5, 18 at St. Bernadette. $300 per scholarship

We can receive money at church destined to HHE Ministry with a check made to St. Columba and HHE on the memo line. 
Or give online: click for Hope for Haiti Donations.

We have contributed communications equipment, including solar energy, to establish a good exchange between St. Columba and our Haitian partners.  St. Bernadette parish in the Martissant neighborhood has been the sponsor of St. Mary Magdalene from the beginning. 

With a new special donor of 18 scholarships at the parish main school (St. Bernadette, Martissant, Port-au-Prince), now going into a fifth year, we hope to continue to strengthen our relationship with the parish community more broadly as they bravely promote peace with justice in the face of continuing political violence that has closed our schools regularly over the past two years.

This ongoing violence was capped on July 7th, 2022, with the assassination of Jovenel Moïse, the disputed president of Haiti. St. Bernadette parish as well as our St. Mary Magdalene school in the Grand Ravine section of P-A-P have been regularly disturbed by gang violence.

Click here to learn more of the history of the Bruner Memorial Scholarships

To contribute online to this tax-deductible fund:

(general scholarship support)

Thank you so much!