About the Matching Prize Recipient
In addition to the Notre Dame Prize itself, another $15,000 is awarded to a Latin American charitable organization recommended by the laureate, thus advancing the work the Prize honors.
Upon the recommendation of Msgr. Kébreau, the matching prize will be donated to the educational efforts of Action et Solidarité contre la Pauvreté (Action and Solidarity Against Poverty, or ASAP), an agency run by the Cap-Haïtien Catholic Church. ASAP awards scholarships to university students in Cap-Haïtien who cannot pay their educational expenses.
In other efforts, ASAP ministers to the physical needs of the community by providing health care and medical supplies to those who lack access to them. The organization also fights chronic food insecurity by partnering with Food for the Poor, a Florida-based nonprofit, to distribute food to community members.
