Father Joesph
Directed by Jeff Kaufman
Synopsis
Father Joseph is a
Haitian film by director Jeff KaufmanFather Joseph founded Haiti’s largest microcredit bank for the poor (Sevis Finansye Fonkoze) with a special mission of empowering peasant women through literacy classes, small business training, and community-building loans. He also founded a 700-student K-14 school, an orphanage, a clean water project, a reforestation program (planting thousands of trees), a health clinic, a radio station, a home construction effort, and The University of Fondwa (Haiti’s first rural college).
