Hope for Haiti program to be presented Saturday

STAFF REPORT

YOUNGSTOWN — St. Augustine Episcopal Church, the Greater Warren-Youngstown Urban League and the P. Ross Berry-George Washington Williams Historical Society will sponsor a program — Hope for Haiti — from noon to 2 p.m. Saturday at the church, 614 Parmelee Ave.

The signature program is designed to educate the community on Haiti’s history, its culture, its people and its struggle while providing hope and support to earthquake victims.

Program sponsors will welcome guest speaker Leon D. Pamphile, Ph.D., pastor, founder and executive director of the Functional Literacy Ministry of Haiti. Pamphile was born in Haiti and educated at the Lycee Petion in Port-Au-Prince.

In July 1968, he received a law degree from Port-Au-Prince School of Law and Economic Studies. The following year, he graduated from the Ecole Normale Superieure of the University of Haiti.

After his arrival in the United States in 1970, he continued his academic studies at the Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. In 1974, he received his master’s degree in religion and earned his Ph.D in education from the University of Pittsburgh in 1980.

Pamphile also is an author with several books written on Haitian-American relations.

Donations will be accepted, and cash donations are preferred. For more information, contact Kenneth King at (330) 747-1307.