The Stephanie Starks HOPE Foundation is partner with
the Salvation Army's Caribbean Territory; Major Olivia
Gully is the commander. We are working along with Major
Gully and Major Busroe the Haiti Divisional Leader on
our trademark Initiative Project Give HOPE TM and Project
Give HOPE International to help aid the individuals
who have suffered through one of the worst hurricane
assaults the Atlantic Coast has ever experienced. We
chose to partner with the Salvation Army because they
have demonstrated a genuine concern and support for
the people. They don't come in and leave when there
is disaster they stay year after year helping improve
the lives of these individuals in the regions they serve.
Also our partnership with the Salvation Army ensures
that every cent of our donation reaches and directly
impacts these people who have suffered devastating lost
and have only survived these vicious hurricanes to suffer
more.
You can help the Stephanie Starks HOPE Foundation's
Project Give HOPE accomplish its mission. Over 200,000
individual are homeless in Haiti, thousands more lost
their lives in the onslaught of hurricanes that attacked
the Atlantic coast. In Jamaica the people have also
suffered greatly. We are told by Major Gully the Caribbean
Territory Leader of the Salvation Army, that more than
12,000 farmers lost their farmland and also their homes.
Countless individuals have lost everything and are suffering
to piece together their lives living in a first world
economy and a third world assistance and pay scale.
In Jamaica their currency is 61 to 1 ratio meaning,
you would have to have 61 Jamaican dollars to equal
1 American dollar. If you were a family who lost everything
in the Hurricanes your house, furniture, clothes in
Jamaica you would have received 30,000 dollars. That
is 30,000 Jamaican dollars which equal 500 U.S. dollars.
It will cost you approximately 50,000 U.S. dollars to
rebuild a small home in Jamaica. Jamaica is a country
that depends heavy on imports the majority of all good
and foods are imported. This is a tremendously difficult
economic environment to live in, were they live in a
first world economy and a third world assistance and
pay scale. Most of the people who have suffered the
most in Jamaica are called Day Workers, Mrs. Gully explained
to us that these individual make 1800 to 2000 dollars
a week which is the minimum wage in Jamaica. That is
1800 to 2000 dollars in Jamaican money which equals
about $33 U.S. dollars a week. 1 loaf of bread cost
over $1 U.S. dollar that is 61 Jamaican Dollars, 1 Apple
cost over $1.50 U.S. dollars that is 90 Jamaican dollars.
Many families work 3 and 4 jobs just to provide food
every week for their family. There is no welfare in
Jamaica. The individuals that we are helping are not
lazy people these are hard working individuals that
weren't blessed to be born within the U.S. boarders.
In addition to building supplies, mattress for beds
and cribs, they are in need of school supplies, and
uniforms. The children have suffered so much when asked
how we could best support the children in Jamaica Major
Gully said they are desperate for school supplies and
uniforms. The public schools are so bad parents try
to enroll their children in Private schools, however
a child can't attend private school without a uniform.
Uniforms cost 15 US dollars, which equals 915 Jamaican
dollars. Every child should have the right to a good
education no matter where they are born. The thought
of one child not being afforded the opportunity to learn
due to a uniform is heart breaking.
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