Village of Hope
Email: villageofhope@hughes.net
Village of Hope is a school founded by the late missionary, Carol Herget, and is now under the directorship of Lutheran pastor, Larry Bollinger and his wife, Margaret. The Bollingers served in several parishes in the U.S. before answering God's call to serve at Village of Hope in Haiti. Located in the countryside east of Port-au-Prince, its eight buildings provide 17 classrooms, kitchen, dining hall, assembly hall, chapel, library, showers and toilets, vocational school facilities, clinic/health care office, offices and storage facilities. All have been built by a combination of local funding and labor, along with Lazarus Project funds and work groups. They offer ample space for educational and religious activities for the 590 children now enrolled, all of whom have access to two meals per day.
Village of Hope's 30 acres of land provide adequate space for a soccer field and an agricultural program, as well as a future clinic, fishponds, and on-site residences. Missionary Herget had a vision born out of 50 years of service with poor children. All who have watched Village of Hope grow say what she often said, "Without the Lazarus Project's help, such great progress in so short a time could never have happened."
Village of Hope's Board of Directors, which is composed of mostly Haitian members, includes two Lutheran pastors from the U.S.
