Thirty-four years ago, in a small town in Haiti, very close to the border with the Dominican Republic, Jean-Germain Latus was born. The third of eleven children, he was raised in a Christian family. In two months, he will be ordained a deacon and in June, when he completes his programs of study, he will return to his country, where he will be ordained a priest.

Although Catholics make up a majority of the Haitian population, when Latus - as his friends and acquaintances call him - first asked about his vocation, his parish priest's first words were that he would be the first seminarian in his town. As he says, he knew as a child that he had to be a priest. "For me it's the best place to serve God and others," he says. The news of his admission to seminar, at the age of 24, was a joy for his family: "The day I left home, my brothers and my parents got down on their knees to thank God for my vocation. Two years later, I returned to my country to attend to attend the funeral of my mother, who had just died, and I learned that during that time I had been preparing for my future ordination. She was very proud of me.

Encouraged by the bishop of his diocese, Latus arrived in Pamplona in 2014, to train at the School of Theology at the University of Navarra. "One day when I was on pastoral ministry, my bishop called me into his office. That same week, I had had an accident and I thought he was going to kick me out of seminar, because he himself had made position of the expenses. However, he told me that he was going to send me to study theology in Spain. I cried with joy. I never imagined that I would be given this opportunity and I never cease to thank God for the life he has given me".

For the past four years, he has been living at high school Bidasoa International Ecclesiastical Center, a home that has given him friends from all over the world. "In Pamplona I have found something I never thought I could have: to live and study with people of so many nationalities. Now I can say that I have a Filipino friend, a Chinese friend... Everyone has their own culture, but relating to them is also part of my training, it is a richness. Being in Bidasoa and in our School is a gift. I no longer say "School of Theology", I say "our School", because now it is mine; I am very grateful and very happy", he assures.

In four months, Latus will return to his country. When he takes stock of these years in Pamplona, he thinks in a special way of his benefactors: "There are not enough words to thank the people who, with their generosity, have supported my scholarship. They do not know me and yet they have donated their money to my training. Whoever contributes to a priest's training is not only helping him, but also the world. The best I can do to thank them is to keep them in my heart, with my prayers".