SEAN AHEARN
Project Lighthouse's CEO & President, and Founder
In 2000, Sean founded Project Lighthouse after traveling to Santa Cruz Tazula, Sonsonate, El Salvador in 1999 and seeing the impoverished conditions in which the people lived in the area and hearing their pleas for help in improving their lives and living conditions. His dynamic energy and personal strength inspires all around him. He has helped thousands of people in need.
Sean is a proven community planner and educator with a Master’s Degree in Education and a Bachelor’s Degree in Community Planning and Management. Sean has been an educator in the Boston Public School System for over 10 years. He has designed and implemented lesson plans in the fields of Literacy, Social Studies, Mathematics, and Science for primary and middle schools. In the past 15 years, he has won recognition as a communicator, listener, and effective organizer in Boston, Massachusetts, El Salvador, and Capetown, South Africa.
As program director for “Men In Need,” Sean taught life skills to impoverished adults living on the streets of Capetown. The Archbishop of Capetown and the director of the Crisis and Hostage Negotiations Team of the Capetown Police Department specially recognized his work in Capetown. He is also the recipient of the Sherman Griffith Award for exemplary people skills and compassion in urgent care traumatic situations at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, awarded by Longwood Security Services, Inc., of the Longwood Medical area in Boston.
Because of his vision for a brighter future for people in need and unique leadership style, Project Lighthouse has grown markedly since its inception and his first trip to El Salvador in 1999. Villagers responded with directly assisting in designing and constructing a medical clinic, a community well, and local vegetable farming plots in Santa Cruz Tazula. With a private donation, community members helped create and construct an outdoor community resource center in Nahulingo. We also provided assistance in commencing on the path to literacy for children. Through Sean’s energy, work ethic, and enthusiasm for Project Lighthouse and its mission, we also developed medical supply sources and our Medical Container Program to aid health clinics for receiving needed supplies, medicines, and equipment to improve health and living conditions. Our most recent expansion has been into the renewable energy and a solar power initiative.
Sean has proven, time and again, that he is adept at winning the trust of people in impoverished and traumatic life situations, a sometimes no easy task. He has helped them to develop and sometimes to create necessary governmental, social, and local contacts, and foster positive environments in which they are able to direct their energy to accomplish great things to better their lives and improve their communities.
SEAN AHEARN
