The soil and the people
https://archives.anglican.ca/link/article33154
- Author
- Coupland, Jim
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Ministry Matters
- Date
- 1997 Spring
- Author
- Coupland, Jim
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Ministry Matters
- Date
- 1997 Spring
- Volume
- 4
- Issue
- 2
- Page
- 4
- Notes
- "To save the land and its people, Episcopal Bishop of Haiti Zache Duracin in 1995 requested the Anglican Church of Canada to assist the diocese in opening a university that would teach agriculture. Through its Volunteers in Mission program, the Canadian Church found someone to head up this project in the person of John Veldhuis, a retired school principal from Bowmanville, Ont. Mr. Veldhuis became the first president of Jacques Theodore Holly University, named after the first Anglican bishop of Haiti. The university's mandate was to teach Haitians to use their land wisely and to learn to feed and support themselves. Holly University opened in October, 1995 on the campus of College St. Pierre in Port-au-Prince, with 14 students enrolled to study agriculture. In February, 1966, the University added a school of business administration and in the fall of 1996, schools of siviculture (the study of trees) and of education. As of late last year [1996], more than 100 students were enrolled in these four colleges".
- Author "is a retired school teacher from Palgrave, Ont., who has been active on behalf of Holly University both in Canada and in Haiti since the school's inception."
- Subjects
- Episcopal Church. Diocese of Haiti
- Ecology - Haiti
- Agriculture - Canada
- Agriculture - Religious aspects - Episcopal Church
- Universite Jacques Theodore Holly (Port au Prince, Haiti)
- Universities and colleges - Haiti
- Haiti - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Volunteers in Mission - Anglican Church of Canada
- Veldhuis, John
- Location
- General Synod Archives