Bill Clinton in Haiti

In a Miami Herald article chronicling former President Bill Clinton’s visit to Haiti this week, the reporter mentions the Haitian Education Leadership Program (HELP), to which Cross International provides scholarships.

Here’s why:

The statistics are daunting: almost half of the country’s estimated 9 million people are under 20 years old.

Of the school-aged students, 60 percent are enrolled in primary school, but only 20 percent make it to high school while only 5 percent actually graduate.

(HT:  Mike Wilson, Project Director for Cross International)