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    Father Joseph

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    Poster of the movie Father Joseph
    2015     Documentary    
    USA/Haiti
    1h 11min
    Original language: English, Creole

    Father Joseph Philippe is the priest who established Haiti's largest microcredit bank for the poor, Fonkoze, which has given literacy training and financial opportunity to hundreds of thousands of women and their families. He also founded a 700-student K-14 school, an orphanage, a clean water project, a reforestation program, a health clinic and a radio station; he has built dozens of homes, and he created the University of Fondwa, Haiti's first rural college. Along the way, several of Father Joseph's friends and colleagues were murdered because of their work for the poor. The 2010 earthquake destroyed almost everything Father Joseph built over 25 years, but the film sees him moving forward and rebuilding with infectious humor, deep faith and determination.

    Directed byJeffrey Kaufman
    Written byJeffrey Kaufman

    Featuring

    Anne Hastings
    Leigh Carter
    Linda Boucard
    Marie-Simone Achille
    Junior Beauvais
    Joseph Philippe
    Quesnel Alphonse
    Occine 'Cine' Chery
    Rose Secours
    William Smarth

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