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Art Auction
Benefit To H.E.L.P. University Students In Haiti |
October 17, 2007: Haiti is a country with such
endemic and intractable troubles that it's sometimes
difficult to know where and how to lend a hand. But on
Friday, November 9, art lovers and humanitarians alike will
have an exceptional opportunity to help the country through
an organization called H.E.L.P.
At 7 that evening, the Haitian Education and Leadership
Program (H.E.L.P.) will host its second annual benefit
auction of Haitian contemporary and naïf art, featuring
works by some of Haiti's most renowned artists, including
Mario Benjamin, Préfète Duffaut, Gérard Fortuné, and Lionel
St. Eloi. All proceeds will go toward scholarship support
for Haitian students pursuing higher education in Haiti.
H.E.L.P. was started in 1996 by Conor Bohan, a Brown
graduate living and teaching in Haiti, when he decided to
sponsor a promising student that he had taught in secondary
school to study medicine at the university level. |
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H.E.L.P. has since grown into Haiti's largest university
scholarship program and, for the academic year 2007/2008,
will sponsor 78 students to study education, medicine, law,
engineering, accounting, agronomy, chemistry, computer
science and communications in various universities
throughout Haiti.
To date, H.E.L.P. graduates have a 100 percent employment
rate at an average starting salary of $6,000 per year,
approximately 15 times greater than the average annual
salary in Haiti.
Plagued by widespread poverty, destabilization, and a lack
of governmental infrastructure, Haiti grapples with a nearly
70 percent unemployment rate. Though the average annual cost
of university in Haiti, including textbooks, is just over
$1,000, nearly 50 percent of children in Haiti have no
access to education at all, and few can afford to continue
their studies past middle or high school.
The event will take place at the Prince George Ballroom, 15
East 27th Street (between Fifth and Madison Avenues).
CaribPR Newswire, NEW YORK, NY.
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