Frances Landers Frances Landers made her first mission trip to Haiti at age 60, and has been back 34 times since. This longtime member of First Presbyterian Church in El Dorado, Arkansas, has single-handedly raised the money to open 25 elementary schools and five high schools in the mountains of Haiti, where no schools previously existed. On her first trip to Haiti in 1977 Landers assisted her husband, Gardner, and their son, Bill, both ophthalmologists, in operating on cataract patients at Ste. They created the Haiti Fund, based at First Presbyterian Church in El Dorado, to receive money to build 30 concrete-block schools, pay teachers, and serve hot lunches to the students. Between trips and speaking engagements, Landers sets up a typewriter on her kitchen table and bangs out fund-raising appeals.
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