We want to share about Franceska,  a clinic volunteer and the daughter of one of our long-time workers. Those of you that have visited the clinic in the last two years would have met 'Cece' as she assists with the patients. She loves medicine and asked to come as a helper and learn all she could as she waited on the Lord for her future. She graduated from Philo (year 13) in 2011 at age 19. This means that she went straight from pre-school through grade 13, never missing a year, passing every one of her national tests in 6th, 9th, 12th, and 13th grade the first-time (even with the earthquake disrupting school for 3 months) and received her diploma. There are very few Haitian young people that achieve this-most of those that do are well into their 20's when they accomplish this goal. In fact, only a small percentage of Haitian ever get this diploma and are prepared to go on to university. 

Franceska was raised by a godly mother and has been in our church in Titanyen her whole life. She is very involved in the youth group at church and she is also involved in our Weekend Barnabas program. She loves the Lord and wants to use the intelligence she has been gifted with to practice medicine and stay in Haiti to minister to her people.  For the past two years, she has volunteered her time as she has been working on trying to get in to a pre-med program here in Haiti. This is a very difficult and very competitive task. Less than 10% of those who apply and take the 3 days of testing are accepted. After two years of not getting in, we encouraged her to look at a nursing program so she can continue with her studies and not lose what she has already learned.  A new international program has opened up in Port where she could earn her Bachelor of Science in Nursing and she has been accepted to start her pre-requisites there.

We are very excited about this new opportunity for her and ask your prayers as she starts. She will have to take classes through the summer to be ready to start her first year in the fall. We will miss her greatly at the clinic, but we are grateful for this door to open. 

For the first time, we are taking on the sponsorship of helping with a university education. We have assisted several with bible school, but we feel the Lord leading us to assist Cece, so she can get the training she needs. We have told Cece and her mom that it will have to be the Lord that provides. 

Her expenses will be approximately 2600 US for this first year, inexpensive by US standards, but completely out of reach for most Haitians. We are asking for prayer that the Lord would raise up the funds for her. If this is something that speaks to your heart and you would consider giving a one-time gift towards her education, please write and let us know. All gifts will go through the clinic fund at Global Outreach and will be tax-deductible.

Our e-mail is brumfive@gmail.com and we would love to hear from you-even if it is to pass on encouraging notes from those of you that have met her.

Franceska Aspilaire

Working on one of our burned children