{"id":647,"date":"2007-06-06T15:18:13","date_gmt":"2007-06-06T15:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=80"},"modified":"2007-06-06T15:18:13","modified_gmt":"2007-06-06T15:18:13","slug":"6407","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=647","title":{"rendered":"6\/4\/07"},"content":{"rendered":"

We stumped in Galion, Ohio, at the Pelican Coffee Shop downtown. \u00a0 Galion’s informal town ‘brain trust’ meets for coffee in a back room here every morning… Later we interviewed Fr. Bob Haas, who is at Galion’s St. Joseph’s Church. \u00a0 He does mission’s work in the South American country of Belize. \u00a0 In a village of 2,000 people in Belize, Fr. Haas (and steady groups of volunteers) have transformed the St. Vincent Palotti School. \u00a0 When they started the work, the school was “dark, smelly, hot and generally uncomfortable,” said Fr. Haas. \u00a0 What’s more, most of the 93 students had to walk 12 to 22 miles to attend. \u00a0 All these conditions led to poor attendance and little motivation to learn. \u00a0 What’s more, no St. Vincent Palotti School \u00a0youth had ever gone to high school. \u00a0 However the volunteers rehabbed the school, adding ceiling fans, better ligthting, desks, bulletin boards, blackboards, a new paint job… \u00a0 And money was raised for high school scholarships. \u00a0 Now attendance is high, students are more motivated and some are, for the first time, going to high school. \u00a0 Note:<\/strong> \u00a0 One of Fr. Haas’s projects is getting books for a library at the school. \u00a0 (Belize is English speaking.) “Children there don’t read very well,” said Fr. Haas, “because they simply don’t have much to read.” \u00a0 Donations for the Belize Project can go to the: St. Joseph Mission Fund, 135 N. Liberty St., Galion, Ohio 44833.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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