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Aug 20, 2008

"Help others achieve their dreams and you will achieve yours." --Les Brown

No I Won't Lend You 30 Dollars But ...

In 1996, Conor Bohan stepped over the open sewers of Cite Soleil, a teeming slum on the harbor in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, to visit a promising former student at the Catholic high school where he was teaching. The student, Isemonde Joseph, asked Bohan if he would give her thirty dollars to attend secretarial school. He briefly considered Joseph's request, but declined. Instead, Bohan offered to sponsor Joseph's lifelong dream of becoming a doctor. Bohan covered her tuition for a year of medical school-- with his monthly stipend from his job and a little help from his parents. The year after that he expanded his search for top students throughout Port-au-Prince and the surrounding area