The School
After 6 years of healthcare improvements, the next need was to educate the now healthy children.  Local government run schools were not able to do the job.  Most children were destined to a life of no hope and poverty because there was no one to give them a hand.  In 1995, a partnership of missionaries, Dominicans and Solid Rock Missions built and opened a school to meet the educational needs of these children.

The school opened its doors in September 1995 with 170 students in four grades.  More classes were added each year and more students as well.  The school now serves grades pre-school thru grade 12.  Twenty-seven students were in the first graduating class in 2001.  All of them now either have a job or are going on to higher education.          

Besides the basics, the school also offers vocational training to its high school students and local adult education classes. Vocational training includes computer technology, welding, baking, carpentry, masonry, engine mechanics, and more.  The school is soon hoping to offer college courses as well.  

The school offers a well-balanced Christian education.  The students and the school continue to win awards for their excellent education and extra-curricular activities.  The school is a model for other Dominican schools.

The Need
A recent census of the barrios revealed that over 3000 children are of school age.  A small portion attend a public school.  Nine hundred and fifty-eight of them attended the Christian Center for Education Development School. (CCED).   A large portion of them do not attend a school at all.   There is a waiting list to get into the CCED school.  Some will make it in as others either graduate or move on.  Our desire is to reach as many of these children as possible.  We want to give every child the opportunity of a lifetime.

Sponsors Needed
Over ninety percent of the operating funding for the school comes from either gifts to the General Scholarship Fund or from direct sponsorships of students.   

Twenty-four dollars a month ($288 per year, 78.9¢ per day) will sponsor a child, giving them an excellent  education, books and materials, uniforms, a hot meal each school day, and medical and dental care.  We encourage sponsors to correspond with their student.  We will pass on information concerning the student as it becomes available.

91.6 cents of every dollar provided for sponsoring a child goes directly to sponsor that child at their school.

Our General Scholarship fund provides for one time or regular gifts to help defray the costs of the unsponsored students attending the school.  Generation by generation, the school is impacting lives for Jesus Christ.  This is where we need your help.  

Solid Rock Missions
P.O. Box 334
Wauseon, OH  43567
Phone: 419-335-8046
Fax:  419-337-7827
E-mail: srm@solidrockmissions.org