Haiti Lumiere de Demain

We are grateful for your continued support. It has been a very difficult year all. We are thankful inspite of the challenges you are holding on. Haiti Lumiere de Demain (HLD) is too. We have been trying for a while now to gjve you updates on former students who received support from HLD through its programs, unfortunate due to ongoing political turmoil and security concerns in Haiti we could proceed with our plan. Then the Corona Virus hit last...forced everything to a grinding halt. You continue to think of Haiti, its children and Haiti Lumiere de Demain. We are really grateful.

We are please to share a first set of photos of a recent visit to the Community of Picmy.
Before we go into the details of the trip. We would like to give a heartfelt thank you to Jay Sequeira and the JetBlue Community Connection team for providing us with free travel certificates to these trips possible. Thank you Jay, thank you JetBlue, thank you Community Connection JetBlue, thank you to each and everyone of you who have been contributing to HLD to children in rural communities like Picmy access to educational opportunities. Your support is making a real difference. Here is an example..

Emmanuel Francois (22), pictured here in the Barcelona shirt is a scholarship recipient from HLD's Scholarship program. In fact he is one of the first students (2005-2006) to receive the scholarship. He feels until this day, receiving a scholarship from HLD is his biggest acoomplishment. He is an amazing young man with great visions for the future of his community.

Picmy is a seaside community that is isolated from the rest of the island because a huge mountain cliff. As a result people leaving in that area interact more with people on the main land.

A boat leaves Picmy twice a week to go to the mainland go shop for goods needed. There is a small primary school...in fact the school never had building of its own. Some time they teach the students in the catholic church building...one room of course. You can only imagine the gymnastics of making 6 classroom for school on Monday to Friday only to tear down Friday after class to prep the building for church services on Sunday. You will not be wrong to think there is no class on Friday. So these kids have a 4 day school week if it does not rain during the week. If its rains the place is inundated with water. The arrangements with the Catholic church did not work out they used for a while the Baptiste Church that did not even have a building.

Skipping forward, an organization came to the area and built a 4 room building to house a health clinic. They did not stay long before they abandon the project. That building now house the National school of Picmy. A national school means that the government runs tbe school. As with most everything on the island of la Gonave...it is total neglect from the government.

It is in that environment Emmanuel came from. He used his scholarship from HLD to graduate high school, went on to the university where he obtain a teaching degree. As a certified teacher he could have stayed in Port au Prince for better paying jobs with access to more modern things. Nope, he returned to his community to teach. For the past 2 years he has been teaching first grade as certified teacher.

The people in the group photo are all former students who received textbooks from HLD. As we were meeting the remember how they hiked the mountain pick to come and receive books from HLD under a tree because cars cannot reach Picmy.

Today the are part of organization that is building more classroom to expand the school and as former recipients of HLD programs they form a committe manage HLD's books so that more children can have access to education.

We extend our thanks to Mr. Christopher Occeas who accompanied and hosted us to collect this story.

Friends that is our (HLD's), your story in Picmy, la Gonave. We have hundred more stories we need to pursue not just because we want you to hear direct from the students the impact HLD has had in their lives but because these students are proud of their accomplishments. Us going to them ask, hey how are things? What have you done? That tells them we care and also there is accountability. That what Emmanuel said, HLD invested in him now he is investing in his community.

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It was in a month of March like today in 1998 the first meeting was held to create Haiti Lumiere de Demain. Twenty two (22) years later we are still pursuing this most important goal where every child is given the to become educated. We are still far behind on the road but we are making steady progress step by step. Will you join us on the "March" with a donation today? Donate now at www.Haitilumiere.org

Help us create the magic of hope for children on the island of la Gonave by making them owners of textbooks. Haiti Lumiere de Demain has been working in the education and environment sectors in la Gonave for more than 20 year now. No change is possible without an educated population. We believe it all starts with the children. We need your help today to continue these efforts. Please click the link to our website at www.Haitilumiere.org to make your donation in support of our work. We thank you for your kinds and generous support.

Good morning friends and family. Yesterday was supposed to be perfect day but the bad news came crushing my heart. A 6 year old school child died and 5 others including an elder women in her 70s badly hurt in an accident, when a truck lost control hit a wall that falls on the school children awaiting outside of the school because they had not paid their tuition yet. 5, 6, 7 year old children being left outside of school because they had not paid tuition. How much can the eyes of a human being see before his heart cries out ENOUGH and demand action?
After commemorating the 10 year anniversary of the deadliest earthquake that hit Haiti on January 12, 2010 that killed over 300,000 people in less than 35 second and in the week we celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. I cannot remain silence. No 5 year should be left outside a school building because he/she did not pay tuition. My eyes have seen enough, my heart is crying out.
This is why I started Haiti Lumiere de Demain 22 years ago address some of the inequities in the Haitian education system. We believe that children should not be sent home from school because they cannot pay tuition, purchase textbooks or uniforms.
Too many children in Haiti are being humiliated when all they want and deserve is access to education. I am crying out for your help and support. I am scheduled to go deliver textbooks to children in the classroom in La Gonave, I need your help with that effort. Please help at www.Haitilumiere.org
Thank you for attention, my heart is crying out ENOUGH!

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Happy holidays everyone. May you have a safe, fun and healthy holiday season and beyond.

We need your support to keep our work on the island of la Gonave going. We are seeking your support today to finish with the library renovation project so the could have access to to these books. Please do directly today at www.Haitilumiere.org. We thank your for generous support.

This donkey believes in our cause to promote educational opportunities for children on the island of la Gonave. With this donkey we bring books to some of the more remote parts of the island of Gonave. In spite of the donkey's total commitment, it still takes a lot of coordination and human power to make the Donkey Library happens. Help us continue this effort with your donation today at www.Haitilumiere.org

Help us to continue to invest the education of children at www.Haitilumiere.org