Haiti Partners Inc.

Haiti Partners' mission is to "help Haitians change Haiti through education." We accomplish this through offering innovative, quality education for over 1500 students in six partner schools and our flagship school, the Children’s Academy and Learning Center. The Children’s Academy is an integrated school, continuing education center, and incubator for entrepreneurship programming. It works hand-in-glove with our partner schools to provide a high quality, student-centered, values-based education, and seeks to serve as a model of education-centered community development for Haiti and the world. In order for Haiti to address its many challenges, its children (and committed parents) need to experience an innovative, quality education – an education that empowers them to develop their potential, to think outside the box and to engage in improving their communities to bring lasting change. This is Haiti Partners’ vision and this is the work that we engage in each day within the communities in which we work.

We envision Haiti as a story of transformation that inspires developing countries around the world t

Goal One: Continue to develop the Children's Academy & Learning Center until it is a full preK thru secondary school, complete with robust entrepreneurship and after-school programs that respond to local needs.

Goal Two: Further establish and develop connections between the Children's Academy and our Partner Schools with an eye toward learning how to best promote the Children's Academy model throughout Haiti.

Goal Three: Further establish a broad and diverse donor base comprised of individuals, organizations and others, that will help us improve our ability to execute our programs successfully for the long term.

Haiti Partners has been a WorldBlu Certified Freedom-Centered Organization for the last 11 years (see: worldblu.com/haiti-partners). In the last 18 months, both Co-Directors and our Operations Directors have participated in leadership development activities organized by WorldBlu to help us improve our collaborative leadership skills.

- In Haiti, in response to COVID-19, we educated our staff at the Children's Academy about COVID-19 prevention, created materials for digital and paper distribution, created masks for free distribution to staff, students and families, and did our best to work with students from home. We also created COVID prevention kits that were distributed to Children's Academy families as well as the families of students at our partner schools. - As Haitians abroad began to lose their jobs because of COVID-19 and remittances dried up, we created a program called, "Home Gardens," through which parents of students, as well as staff members, received support from the school to install water reservoirs at their homes and create permaculture gardens providing them with food security as well as a potential source of income. As this program has been a huge success, we intend to continue it into the future. - In response to COVID-19 on the US side, we began doing all our staff and Board meetings online. We also combined the several in-person fundraising and awareness raising events we do throughout the country each year into a single online event in February 2021. While we didn't reach our initially budgeted fundraising targets, we did get close and, with help from PPP funds, we ended the fiscal year well.