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MNU Students Lead Service Project for Underserved is a well-known mindset in Haiti where people have learned to live with few material goods or modern conveniences. The remote mountain village of Cascade Pichon, Haiti, is the beneficiary of the project.
This year’s student-led Passion to Serve project has a goal of $70,000 to help build a school in Haiti where more than 350 students meet in what could be called a shed. The project is called Dégagé \da ¯ -gäzha ¯ \ which is a Creole word meaning to "make do with what you have." Dégagé
Partnering with Heart to Heart International, the organization that will supervise construction of the school, MNU students are raising money through several means. Two Dollar Tuesdays seek $2 donations at MNU’s community chapel service. Students are holding fundraisers throughout the year and anyone can donate online at www.mnu. edu/passion. Donors should check with their employers to see if they have gift matching programs that essentially double what the donor gives. Previous Passion to Serve projects helped build a health clinic in Guatemala, make
improvements to an orphanage in Kenya and provide a van and other materials for Kansas City Urban Youth Center. The MNU students traveling to Cascade Pichon in January 2014 will start building the school’s foundation with funding and assistance from the Find Us Faithful Foundation, another Heart to Heart partner in the project. Additional partners include Nazarene universities Mount Vernon, Southern and Point Loma, as well as the Government of Haiti (GOH), which will pay the salaries of five teachers and the school principal. The project will cost more than $250,000, according to Heart to Heart official Steve Weber. Updates on the progress of MNU’s Passion to Serve project are posted at www.mnu.edu/passion.
Student Story Goes Viral Google “Granny Franny MidAmerica” and you’ll find nearly five pages of links to media sharing our story on Frances Wood’s return to college at 82, and her honorary “Granny Homecoming Queen” award. This feel-good human interest story has truly gone viral. In fact, on Oct. 29 she appeared on "The Queen Latifah Show."
that age. Finally, people love to hear that the younger and older generations can get along, and that Wood has been genuinely welcomed on campus with open arms.
From California, to Georgia, to New York and Seattle, people are tweeting and sharing the story on Facebook and other social media. Why is this story resonating with so many? One reason is it is good news and that’s hard to find in our world. Another reason is Frances Wood’s love for life and activity at age 82 is inspiring. We would all like to be just like her at
All we can say is yes, this story is authentically MNU.
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