Home-Schooling Publisher Extends Generous Offer to Katrina Victims
by Jim Brown
September 27, 2005
(AgapePress) - A company that publishes curriculum for home-schooling families and Christian schools is reaching out to low-income families and victims of Hurricane Katrina in a big way.Alpha Omega Publications is offering more than $1.2 million in curriculum aid to home-schooling families that have been hurt by Katrina. The publisher says it will be distributing its curricula and scholarships "through existing home-school organizations and church ministries."
E. Ray Moore is the founder and director of the South Carolina-based Exodus Mandate Project, which is assisting Alpha Omega in its effort. Moore believes it is the single largest relief effort currently being targeted at home-schooling families.
"Among the several evangelical Christian curriculum distributors and publishers, they have done a very good job in developing what they call the 'Switched-On Schoolhouse,'" Moore shares. "It's a simple way for home schoolers to get started in their homes, or in some cases to use their local churches to have a curriculum, using also the Internet as well."
Moore explains his organization's role in the curriculum relief effort. "We're connected with a lot of other ministries, smaller ministries like ours," he says, "and so we're trying to provide some of the coordination and helping with the distribution and alerting families to the availability of this curriculum. But let it be very clear that it's Alpha Omega that's made the financial commitment."
Alpha Omega also plans to provide ten scholarships to its academy for Katrina victims and low-income families.
Moore's group says families who are victims of Hurricane Katrina and churches that are interested in receiving Alpha Omega's curriculum should contact one of the following organizations: National Black Home Educators Resource Association, Home School Legal Defense Association, Southern Baptist Church Home Education Association, Southern Baptist Association of Christian Schools, Project Noah, Family Reformation Ministries, and the South Texas Baptist Association. Low-income families wishing to participate should contact the Home School Legal Defense Association or Project Noah.
Jim Brown, a regular contributor to AgapePress, is a reporter for American Family Radio News, which can be heard online.
