Thank you. For your support. For your prayers. For caring. For being a part of something amazing. YOU made 2020 a success, and we couldn't be more grateful.
The approach of a new year is always a great time to reflect on everything you make possible for our students and alumni. Your belief in The Haitian Project's (THP) mission enables Louverture Cleary School (LCS) graduates to use their education to break the cycle of poverty for themselves and their families. Thank you!
Here are just a few of the many milestones from last year:
Despite the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic and unrest in Haiti, LCS remained successful and supportive to its students and community in Haiti, providing direct assistance including food supplies, potable water and 2,400 reusable masks to our neighbors, while ensuring that our 90 teachers and staff had the financial stability to care for their families through the pandemic.
LCS’s 25th graduating class achieved a 100 percent pass-rate on the national exam and joined an amazing group of successful alumni who are staying in Haiti to make a brighter future for their country.
LCS once again proved its academic excellence with another National Laureate and a high-placed winner in a national essay contest.
And... THP had a successful transition year as new THP President Reese Grondin took the helm, bringing a tremendous amount of expertise and skill from her many years of service with THP, along with a dedicated family to help lead the mission.
Looking ahead to a bright new year, there is much work still to do. But it is good and important work. And we couldn't be more happy to be doing it together with you.
Building on the decades-long success of LCS outside of Port-au-Prince, The Haitian Project is preparing to break ground on its next school—the Model Campus—as part of the Louverture Cleary Schools Network, a national system of 10 schools stretching across the country. Each new school in the Network will be established in a different diocese / department of Haiti, increasing access to quality education outside of the nation’s capital.
Thanks to you, Louverture Cleary School students go on to professional careers IN HAITI to make a brighter future for their country.
Because you believe, 90 percent of LCS graduates are in Haiti working, or in university, or both. They are working as teachers, accountants, doctors, and lawyers. They are earning an average of $12,000 per year just several years into their careers—having come from families who struggle to survive on $1,000 per year.
Because you believe, graduates of Louverture Cleary School can attain professional careers and build strong families and communities—IN HAITI. They are able to send their own children to school, buy their own homes, pay for their own medical care, and support their extended families.
All with your support.
And when 25 percent of Louverture Cleary School graduates go on to study medicine (in a country that has one-tenth the number of doctors per capita as the U.S.), the need for MORE Louverture Cleary Schools has never been been more clear.
Thank you for believing in them. And in our work together.
Best wishes to you and yours for a safe and happy new year!