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Teacher Training

Trained Teachers Teach Better.

The Education Office of the Diocese of Hinche organized an innovative three-year teacher training program and secured funding from Haitian Education Fund of the Catholic Diocese of Richmond.

The Education Office conducted competitive examinations among the Diocese's primary school teachers. Sixty teachers qualified for the program.

The program enabled teachers to complete their education and prepare for the state teacher examination. Few teachers in the Diocese have completed enough of their education to take the national teacher examination.

Seven weeks of training were provided in each year of the three-year training period. The instructors were selected from the nearby Papaye Normal School (Ecole Normal de Papaye) conducted by the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary.

The program cost for facilities, instructors, supplies, and room and board for 60 students for one week totaled about $5,000. The Haitian Education Fund funded this cost so that the teacher-participants pay nothing.

Fifty-one teachers completed the three year program in the summer of 2007.

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Your donations funded the completion of this training.

The following is the schedule of training and the associated costs:

	Date	Duration	Cost ($US)	Status
1.	FY 2005	Total	$8,920	Completed
	FY 2006
2.	Summer	4 weeks	$8,175	Completed
3.	December	1 week	$4,787	Completed
4.	February	1 week	$4,787	Completed
5.	April	1 week	$4,787	Completed
		Total	$22,536
	FY 2007
6.	Summer 2006	4 weeks	$20,000	Completed
7.	December	1 week	$5,000	Completed
8.	February	1 week	$5,000	Completed
9.	April	1 week	$5,000	Completed
		Total	$35,000
	FY 2008
10.	Summer 2007	4 weeks	$10,000	Completed
11.			$1,300	Debt
		Total	$11,300
	Program Total		$77,756
	This summer session marks the completion of the three-year training program. Graduating teachers will be sitting for their teacher certification examination.

The Haitian Education Fund does not receive any monetary support from the Diocese of Richmond. The Fund depends totally on your donations to continue this work.