Hey Ewo Friends! Please join us in wishing Happy Birthday to Jodi MacIsaac! Who’s Jodi? We welcomed Jodi to our board earlier this year and we love having her thoughtful perspective. She’s a school-based mental health therapist here in Charlotte. Her work focuses on children who attend schools with high needs and high poverty rates. Read More
Hey Ewo Friends! Please join us in wishing Happy Birthday to Board Member Sherri Buzard! Who’s Sherri? She’s a long-time supporter of Student Sponsorship in Haiti, being active in this mission since 2000. That’s over 20 years and predates World of God and Ewo!! She’s also an outreach leader at First Presbyterian in Charlotte. Sherri Read More
Hi friends! Hard to believe that kids both here and in Haiti are wrapping up the school year!! To say that’s it’s been a challenging year is probably an understatement for both sets of students. Thank you for all of your prayers, letters to your students, and generous support of our program. We couldn’t do Read More
Hey Ewo Friends! Please join us in wishing Happy Birthday to Missy Parker! Who’s Missy? She’s a tireless advocate for our friends in Bayonnais and an important part of our Sponsorship Team. She’s also a talented photographer – you’ve seen her work on our website and booklet! We’d love for you to get to know Read More
I am a school-based mental health therapist here in Charlotte, and work with children who attend schools with high needs and high poverty rates. My family sponsors a 10 year-old girl student in Bayonnais. It is important to me as a therapist and as a sponsor, to understand what it takes to help support students Read More
Hey Ewo Friends! Please join in to wish Happy Birthday to Jen Kaske! Who’s Jen? She’s an awesome member of our board since 2018 and is an integral part of our Student Sponsorship Team. We’d love for you to get to know her better, so we asked her a few fun questions… Enjoy! Hey Jen, Read More
Today we get to meet another one member of our Board of Directors, David Brady. David currently serves as our Treasurer and joined the Board in 2019. And it just happens to be his birthday! Happy Birthday, David!! David moved to Charlotte in May 2020 with his wife. They had their first child, a boy Read More
Years ago, when we asked Actionnel Fleurisma how we could add the most value to the schools in Bayonnais, his response was, “Sponsor more students.” So we worked with him and administrators on what that number might be. The end result is that our sponsorship goal at Ewo is to have at least 1,000 students Read More
At Ewo, in our mission work, we often refer to giving our friends in Bayonnais a “hand up, not a hand out.” We are focused on Development (a hand up) versus Relief (a hand out) because we feel strongly that they are two very distinct ways of helping. Have you ever wondered what that means? Read More
I was lucky to sit down via Zoom, with Allen Smith, to hear the story of how it all began. Allen is the founder of World of God. He now lives in Mexico, but he was more than happy to share his story with me! We are so thankful for him and this vision he Read More
Haitian Creole [e-woah]
English translation
hero [heer-oh]
noun: a person who, in the opinion of others has special abilities, achievements, or personal qualities and is regarded as a role model