For the first time in 12 years, the violence that has been raging in Haiti has forced the closure of our beautiful primary school in Croix-des-bouquets, most of the community having fled to safer areas. Incredibly, the buildings and equipment remain untouched and have not been vandalized or pillaged, which should allow us to quickly resume offering classes as soon as the security situation allows it. For now, we continue with our mission in the North of the country, where many families have relocated and where we are in the process of buying a building which we will initially turn into a kindergarten. Your support is more important than ever in order to allow these children living in such precarious conditions, to find a certain sense of normalcy by offering them a safe and structured educational environment.

Your generosity and the involvement of our volunteers enabled us to raise over $16,000 this year! We used 100% of the donations received to make a first deposit to acquire a building in the city of Cap Haitien, where many families from Port-au-Prince and its surroundings have fled. One of our donors also generously sponsored one of our most gifted students, allowing her to continue her secondary studies.

The violence that has been raging in Haiti for almost 3 years now has caused a large part of our community to flee to safer areas. Despite this sad new reality, our team on the ground has continued its mission at its own risk. They did what was necessary to provide the quality education promised to every child who showed up at our door. As a result, we managed to complete the 2022-2023 academic year for some forty of them. Given the security situation is not improving, we still don’t know what this year will bring, but your support is more important than ever and we remain enormously proud of the students, teachers and our dear director Nelcame, who continue to hold out under unimaginable conditions.

Your generosity and the involvement of our volunteers enabled us to raise over $11,000 this year! We used 100% of the donations received for infrastructure maintenance and renovation, including a major project to rebuild the school’s exterior walls. Two of you also generously sponsored two of our most vulnerable students. Your ongoing support has enabled them to pursue their education, even though one of them had to leave the school during the year. Thank you.

We’ve got great news for all our regular donors: we’ve officially become a registered charity with the Canada Revenue Agency this year! From now on, we’ll send you an official receipt entitling you to a tax deduction or credit on your income tax return for all donations made annually.

Thank you again for your precious support!

We are proud to inform you that despite the ongoing violence and insecurity in Haiti and specifically in the area surrounding our school, we ended the 2021-2022 academic year with some great news. Indeed, last year marked our first cohort to complete the full 9-year primary school cycle since the opening of the school. All of our graduating students successfully passed the official state exam! Unfortunately, the current disastrous security situation has made it impossible to start the new school year, we are however ready on our end to offer the first level of secondary school, this means that for the first time this year, we will be both a primary and secondary school. Huge congratulations to our students, teachers and wonderful principal Nelcame, who are all doing incredible work in such a challenging context.

Your generosity and the involvement of our volunteers enabled us to raise over $10,000 this year! We used 100% of the donations received to do some maintenance and upgrade to our electric infrastructure, including an additional solar panel and batteries, to get badly needed classroom supplies and furniture, as well as to build a new principal’s office for the school. Two of of donors also generously sponsored two of our most vulnerable students and by doing so, are allowing them to stay in school and pursue their studies. Thank you.

After a year of insecurity during which we could not attract attention with a large construction project, a respite in the violence and the resumption of some economic activity this summer finally allowed us to use funding received from Ministère des Relations internationales et de La Francophonie (MRIF). In partnership with the University of Sherbrooke Group for Internal Cooperation (GCIUS), we built a large 6,300-Gallon tank that allows the school to supply water to the local community for more than a week at a time!

Despite the ongoing socio-political turmoil in Haiti (culminating with the murder of the president last summer and the ensuing deterioration of the security situation), we are proud to announce that we opened our doors in October, for our tenth school year in our beautiful primary school in Haiti! Thanks to the incredible resilience and dedication of our Haitian partners, we now have 140 students and a dozen teachers and employees!

Your generosity and the involvement of our volunteers enabled us to raise close to $8,000 this year! We used 100% of the donations received to complete our new 2-story building which holds 6 classrooms. Two of our donors also generously sponsored two of our most vulnerable students and by doing so, are allowing them to stay in school and to continue their studies.

Although we were not able to send volunteers to Haïti again this year, we welcomed 4 interns from the Université de Sherbrooke. They worked on creative ways to adapt our fundraising campaign to the COVID-19 restrictions.

Despite our two most challenging years in a row (the sociopolitical upheaval of 2019 followed by the pandemic), we are proud to announce that our ninth school year started this October in our beautiful primary school in Haiti! Thanks to the incredible resilience and dedication of our Haitian partners, we now have 120 students and 9 full-time employees!

Your generosity and the involvement of our volunteers enabled us to raise close to $17,000 this year! We used 100% of the donations received to cement the courtyard, to finish the ground flour of the large 2-story building which will eventually hold 10 classrooms, and to start the construction of a new 2-story building which will hold 6 classrooms to replace our 3 original semi-permanent classrooms.

Although we were not able to send volunteers to Haïti this year, we have developed internship positions in partnership with Université de Sherbrooke, to coordinate and adapt our fundraising campaign to COVID-19 restrictions. In the fall, we had two interns who did a great job making up for the fundraising events which we had to cancel in the winter/spring.

We are proud to announce that our eigth school year started this September in our beautiful primary school in Haiti, with over 100 students and 9 full-time employees!

Thanks to your donations and the involvement of our dedicated volunteers, we have raised close to $13,000 this year! We used 100% of the donations received to start the fitting and finishing of the ground floor for the new 2-story building which will eventually hold 10 classrooms, to install doors and windows, to reinforce the perimeter wall, and to build a new playground. Thanks to a donation of recorders by Long&McQuade in Montreal, we were able to start offering real music classes, and thanks to the generosity of employees at the Children’s Hospital in Ottawa, we were able to open up a small infirmary.

Furthermore, two students from the University of Sherbrooke, took part at their own expense, in a 4-month humanitarian trip, during which they worked alongside our teachers in order to improve pedagogical methods.

We are proud to announce that our seventh school year started this October in our beautiful primary school in Haiti! We have 70 students and 8 full-time employees!

Thanks to your donations and the involvement of our dedicated volunteers, we have raised over $15,000 this year! We used 100% of the donations received to complete the construction of the ground floor for the 2-story building which will eventually hold 10 classrooms, as well as fitting and finishing some existing classrooms. Thanks to a generous donation of laptops, we were also finally able to equip the computer lab.

We are proud to announce that our sixth school year started this October in our beautiful primary school in Haiti! We have 70 students and 8 full-time employees!

Thanks to your donations and the involvement of our dedicated volunteers, we have raised over $17,000 this year! We used 100% of the donations received to continue with the construction of the ground floor for the 2-story building which will eventually hold 10 classrooms. We have completed the main structure and the ceiling for 2 out of the 5 classrooms on the ground floor.

We are proud to announce that our fifth school year in a row started this October in our beautiful primary school in Haiti! We have about 70 students and 8 full-time employees!

Thanks to your donations and the involvement of our dedicated volunteers, we have raised close to $18,000 this year! We used 100% of the donations received to:
1. Complete the construction of the foundations for a 2-story building which will eventually hold 8 classrooms
2. Build a hallway along the administration building with a waiting area for parents
3. Build a new separate entrance which allows a better control of entries and exits
4. Repainted the exterior wall of the school
5. Did various renovation, repair and improvement work on the existing infrastructure

Furthermore, 9 volunteers from the eastern townships took part, at their own expense, in a humanitarian trip to Haiti, where they assisted our teachers in the classrooms (a first!) as well as organize activities with the kids.

We are proud to announce that our fourth school year in a row started this October in our beautiful little school in Haiti! We have 70 students and 8 full-time employees!
Thanks to your donations and the involvement of our dedicated volunteers, we have raised over $20,000 this year! We used 100% of the funds received to:

1. Complete the construction and paint the new sanitary block
2. Build an additional permanent classroom
3. Complete the reconstruction of the perimeter wall
4. Secure the perimeter wall
5. Build solid foundations for 4 new classrooms
6. Connect the school the electrical grid
7. Furnish and repair of school furniture
8. Install a water distribution system for the community

This year, nine volunteers, mostly from the eastern townships, also took part in international cooperation projects at their own expense, 7 in Haiti and 2 in Ghana.

I am proud to announce that our third school year in a row started last October in our beautiful little school in Haiti, and that 3 women and 6 child-prisoners in Mongolia now have access to weekly lessons in their newly renovated classroom!

Thanks to your donations and the involvement of our dedicated volunteers, we have raised over $20,000 this year! We used 100% of the funds received to:

1. Install a water tower and connect it to the school well
2. Build a sanitary block with 5 toilets, 2 for the girls, 2 for the boys and one for the teachers
3. Build an additional permanent classroom
4. Collapse one of the perimeter walls and build a solid new wall
5. Install electrical wiring in the administration building
6. Refurbish the administration building to hold classrooms so that no class is given in tents anymore
7. Install swings for the children
8. Furnish and repair of school furniture
9. Paint the water tower and the exterior wall of the school
10. In Mongolia: Renovated an unused prison office into a classroom and library for child-prisoners.

In Haiti, we now hire 6 teachers, one day-care lady, one secretary and a groundskeeper, all full-time.

We also allowed 9 volunteers, mostly from the eastern townships, to take part in international cooperation projects, 7 in Haiti and 2 in Mongolia.