LASC is pleased to have the privilege of continuing our partnership with Cross International. In 2023, we worked with Cross International on 22 projects in the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Haiti, and Nicaragua.
Community Transformation
Agros: Nueva San Jose Community Transformation Year 2
This provided support to 30 families within an ongoing Community Transformation project in Nueva San Jose, Nicaragua. The project continues to provide agricultural diversification, increased asset building, market linkages, and increased farmer income. In the second year, this program achieved an increase in average annual income in the range of $3,660 to $10,272 per family. Furthermore, 100% of the participating families were able to increase their weeks of production from 24 to 36, with 97% of families reaching the quality level of production to fulfill commercial purchase contractors.
Hope of Life: El Milagro Community Transformation Year 3
This is year 3 of a 5-year Community Transformation project in El Milagro, Guatemala which impacted 121 beneficiary families. This project provided access to potable water through point-of-use water filters, improved housing and sanitation, and reduced the number of children diagnosed with malnutrition which improves community capacity through education and application of best-practices and diversified the income through creation of new revenue streams. Within year 3, the average gross daily household income from coffee farming increased from $1.50 to $4.92. The average gross daily household income from eggs is projected to increase from $2.96 to $3.05.
Hope of Life: Los Canan Community Transformation Pre-Implementation
This supported the pre-implementation phase of a 5-year process in Los Canan, Guatemala, the 5th community of the Hope of Life’s Community Transformation program. In this phase, activities included a household baseline survey, leadership training, and a small development project determined by the community leadership council.
Hope of Life: Los Ramirez Community Transformation Year 1
This was the first year of community transformation implementation in Los Ramirez, Guatemala. The first year impacted families in Los Ramirez by providing access to potable water through point-of-use water filters, improving housing, improving health, improving community capacity through training and application of best practices, increasing household income and diversifying income sources. Within year 1, the average gross daily household income from coffee farming will increase from $1.65 to $2.79. The average gross daily household income from eggs increased from $0 to $4.09.
Hope of Life: La Jigua Community Transformation Program – Year 1 of 4
This was the first year of community transformation implementation in La Jigua, Guatemala that supported 91 families with leadership development, access to potable water through point-of-use water filters, installation of sanitary latrines, improved housing, increased food security and reduction in malnutrition, community skill building and education, increased income generation by improving existing income streams and diversifying income with new revenue streams. In year one, they aim to have an average gross daily income of $3 from chicken coops and $1 in savings from egg production sales.
Hope of Life: Los Vasquez Community Transformation Program – Year 2 of 4
This is year 2 of a 5-year Community Transformation project in Los Vasquez, Guatemala, impacting 110 beneficiary families who will maintain or gain access to leadership training, potable water, sanitation facilities, financial literacy training, health clinics, supplementary food rations, and technical assistance and goods to improve livelihoods. Within year 2, the average gross daily household income from coffee farming aims has already increased from $0.56 to $2.10. The average gross daily household income from eggs have increased to $3.63.
World Concern: Capacity Building – PreCT
This provided the support of two key community transformation staff members working with World Concern, while they focus on community outreach and leadership development to ensure that the Tapio and Mononville communities in Haiti remain engaged and interested in what lies ahead for their community transformation work.
World Concern: Pre Community Transformation in Tapio & Mononville
World Concern’s Phase 2.5 builds on Phases I and II in Tapio and Monoville, Haiti, including leadership training, business development and loan management training, agricultural farm development and management training, and livestock management during emergencies training.
Other Recovery
Arms of Love: Safety, Security and Healing for those Impacted by Trauma
This supports of the Residential Protection Program in Jinotepe, Carazo, Nicaragua, which provides a safe environment for 50 abandoned, abused, and orphaned children who receive food, shelter, and comprehensive care. This year they will build a new transition space to provide stronger support for children who have experienced trauma.
Casa Bernabe: Pathway to the Future
This was a 3rd year of support of the reintegration of traumatized youth back into society in Guatemala City, Guatemala. The individuals with a healthy BMI increased from 61% to 80%, and 97% of youth obtained their certification for at least 1 vocational training program.
Fondation Pour Les Enfants d’Haiti (FEH): C-Tech: Nursing & Electro-Technique Program Expansion
This is a 10-month project in Musotte, Haiti aimed to establish the physical infrastructure required to deliver electronic, computer, and nursing curriculums for their students, and provide scholarships for 15 of their students. Within 6 months after graduating, they aim for 57% to be gainfully employed in their field of study.
Food Security
Good Samaritan Hospital: Batey Relief Program
This helped to provide monthly deliveries of vitamin fortified rice & soy product (648 servings monthly per family) and multivitamins to all families with school aged children in La Romana, Dominican Republic.
Fondation Pour Les Enfants d’Haiti (FEH), Divine Shelter Schools (DSS) & Mission Evangélique Baptiste du Sud d’Haïti (MEBSH): Emergency Food for Haiti
This helped to provide one school year of food for 27 schools and 4,420 students served by Divine Shelter Schools, FEH & MEBSH in Haiti.
Hope of Life: St. Luke’s Facility – Nutritional Recovery Program
St. Luke’s Facility in Zacapa, Guatemala provides life-saving nutritional programming for malnourished children with the goal of achieving a healthy nutritional status for 90% of children experiencing acute malnutrition.
Relief
Alfalit: Dominican Republic
The program assisted 1,200 new beneficiaries in Alfalit’s Basic Literacy Program in Independencia, Dominican Republic, which aims to bring illiterate persons to the level of third-grade literacy and numeracy within the span of 9 months.
Fondation Pour Les Enfants d’Haiti (FEH): New Academy of Excellence
This project focused on increasing enrollment from 104 to 149 students through the addition of school transportation to transport NAE students safely to and from school. This project also supported the quality Christian education that the New Academy of Excellence provides to preschool, elementary, middle school, and special education students from FEH’s Village of Hope and from Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
Mission Evangélique Baptiste du Sud d’Haïti (MEBSH): Literacy Centers
This supported 14 MEBSH literacy centers that provide education and food to 530 children in Sud, Haiti with the goal of 100% youth having a healthy BMI and 97% of students advancing to the next school level.
Mission Evangélique Baptiste du Sud d’Haïti (MEBSH): Literacy Center Construction
This assisted with the rebuilding of a MEBSH Literacy Center in South Haiti after its destruction in the 2021 earthquake. This included an indoor bathroom, an indoor kitchen, and a water pump for each community.
Mission of the Evangelical Baptist Church and Associates (MEEBA): Children’s Club of Solino
Children’s Club of Solino in Port-au-Prince, Haiti serves 650 vulnerable children aged 4−17—thirty percent being restavek—with services to improve their health, academics, and spiritual and emotional support through weekly programming to support them in their daily lives. The goals of the program aim to improve BMI for at minimum of 70% of the children and improving living conditions for 75% of the restavek children.
PastorServe
PastorServe provided 7 additional conferences due to the stress of the work in Haiti for pastors and their wives, serving approximately 600 individuals. These conferences are focused on pastoral networking, marriage enrichment, praise and worship, and personal development.
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